- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:20:07 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > I agree that a child of a datalist element should not block the form > submission. However, I'm wondering why do we care about this particular > edge case when there are a lot of situations where an element can be > invalid without any possible action from the user. > > If there is no specific use cases in mind I think we should just remove > that. It's so that you can use a <select> in the <datalist> (with the same <option>s) for fallback in older UAs, without that <select> having any effect on the form submission. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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