- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:33:00 -0000
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>
"Johnny Stenback" > Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > >>*** I6 HTMLFormElement::submit *** > >> > >>In DM3, the invocation of the submit() method causes the firing of the > >>ONSUBMIT event prior to performing its intended semantics, and, if the event > >>returns a value that is equivalent (coercable) to FALSE, then those intended > >>semantics (form submission) are ignored. > > I checked with Netscape 3.0, 4.7, 6.x and with IE5.5, neither of which > fire the onsubmit event when the submit method is called on a form. This would be significantly incompatible with existing scripts, the submit method is very commonly used in scripts so as to circumvent the onsubmit event. Existing scripts will break, making many forms unsubmittable. While backwards compatibility isn't essential, there needs to be very, very good reasons not to be - this doesn't appear to have any good reason. Jim.
Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2002 04:38:39 UTC