- From: Karl O . Pinc <kop@meme.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:26:12 -0500
- To: Jonas Jørgensen <jonasj@jonasj.dk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On 2002.05.20 10:55 Jonas Jørgensen wrote: > Karl O . Pinc wrote: >> The (X)HTML specification, >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html, >> makes no mention I can find that <input type="file"> should not >> accept a preset value. If that's the story, the spec should >> be fixed. I wouldn't have had to go through any of this. > > The description of a <input type="file"/>: > > "Creates a file select control. User agents may use the value of the > value attribute as the initial file name." > > It's a "may", not a "should" or a "must". In other words, it is 100% > optional for the user agent whether to accept the initial file name or > not. Ok. My fault. Karl <kop@meme.com>
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