- From: Matt May <mcmay@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:56:00 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Jim Ley wrote: >On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:36:43 -0700, Matt May <mcmay@bestkungfu.com> wrote: > > >>I have published a first draft of the Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0: >> >>http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-SCRIPT-TECHS-20040910/ >> >> > >1.1 - the correct example is not correct... This highlights the main >problem of a script techniques document, you cannot make the examples >useful without being too complicated for anyone to understand. (also >javascript form uri's are simply hardly used anywhere anyway, until >the WHAT-WG guys "standardise" them) > > I found 800 hits on Google showing javascript: URIs in the action attrib, so it's not rare enough that it can be left out. Ideas welcome. We don't have a choice but to publish a document. Our draft charter[1] says we have to. Ultimately, I'd rather hand out code modules, and that's part of my plan, but this document has to exist for those people who understand the technology. >The 1.3 example is simply wrong (and dangerously so) it's wrong in the >sense that you shouldn't return false in an onsubmit and then call >submit(), you're risking an endless loop (whilst slightly >under-specified the submit function is not defined to explicitly not >call the submit event) but more importantly the idea that you can use >such a field to announce client-side validation has taken place is >simply wrong! You MUST validate on the server if validation matters >(consider a bank that only validates you have permission to move money >from one account to another on the client, but uses this case!) > > I tend to agree. It's not worth keeping as a technique. >2.1 has similar return false problems (especially bad with >window.open, as popup blockers generally silently fail so the window >wouldn't open.) > >This is an appropriate example: ><a href="popupPage.html" target="windowName" onclick="window.open('', >this.target, '...');">Link text</a> > > Changed. Thanks. - m [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/04/wcag-charter.html#deliverables
Received on Monday, 13 September 2004 03:55:19 UTC