- From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:02:37 -0700
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Kaustubh Atrawalkar <kaustubh at motorola.com>wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Kaustubh Atrawalkar < >> kaustubh at motorola.com> wrote: >>> >>> My perspective would be absence of submit button (with either >>> visibility:hidden OR display:none) would give user to create more enhanced >>> pages that will allow implicit submission like just username & password hit >>> enter and done and not having mandatory for Sign In button. (just a use >>> case) >>> >> >> Authors can already do this by injecting script although I'd argue that >> such an UI is not "enhanced" at all because users may not know pressing >> enter result in form submission. >> >> > Yes, but author can just reduce his scripting by using default behavior > provided by the browser engine. I agree that user may not know pressing > enter results in general form submission, but in case of search he does. > Just we can make it generic instead of just for one/two input elements. > I haven't seen a search engine that requires two text fields by default. And implicit submission already works on all browsers when there is exactly one text field. The current Trident/WebKit behavior has a nice side-effect to (without scripts) require a visible submit button to enable implicit form submission. - Ryosuke
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