- From: Blaine Brodie <bbrodie@savagesoftware.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:45:02 -0700
- To: www-dom@w3.org, jrohlf@liberate.com
plh@w3.org writes: >From >http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/idl-definitions.html. > >Why is "selected" readonly and "defaultSelected" not? Seems that >these 2 are switched since I would expect the selected state of an >option >to be changeable while its default would not. > >And why is "index" not readonly ?!!!? As an implementor I really don't >want to support the setting of this attribute. What if someone specifies > >an index of 1000000000000? If someone wants to shuffle the option >order, let them use Node methods to do so. > I just took a look at http://www.w3.org/DOM/updates/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001-errata.html. Here's the line you're probably looking for: "The index attribute actually is readonly. On the other hand, the selected attribute is not. " --- Blaine
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