- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:42:04 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > User agents aren't actually required to let users input anything, so > > it doesn't make much sense to require submission be possible... > > This is only relevant for UAs which don't care if forms are usable, > which is most of them. If forms are expected to work in the first > place, then there needs to be an implicit submit mechanism. Every > browser I'm aware of has one, and lots of pages depend on this, so it > seems like this should be required somewhere (even if it's conditional > upon something like "if user form entry is supported"). I added some text to point implementors in that direction. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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