- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:20:07 -0600
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > (It also explicitly says that if implicit submit is supported but > there's no submit button in the form, the implicit submit must still > > happen. That doesn't sound like it could be followed, since lots of > > pages are probably depending on the absence of a submit button > > suppressing implicit submit. That's just backwards-compatibility, not > > platform conventions, though.) > > Do you have any such pages to point to? > Nope, only the assumption that the weird browser behavior related to this could only be for that reason. I'll be happy if this proves unnecessary; this ugliness has caused me headaches in the past. On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > Why is this authoring question? As an user, I'd like to know whether > > pressing enter in my text field triggers implicit submission or not. > > Whether it does or not should be based on the conventions of the platform. > I don't think the existence of implicit submit should depend on platform conventions, though, for interop on forms without visible submit buttons. The form implicit submit takes is a platform convention, but it should be required to exist in some form or another. -- Glenn Maynard
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