- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:02:05 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
David Dorward wrote: > > A bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer causes that browser to send Bar > instead. (The usual work around is to use the name attribute to encode > the data instead). The other big problem with button is that it doesn't degrade gracefully (although note that Lynx handled it correctly, and probably had it in the field before Microsoft's broken version). >> 2. Why HTML standart not describes combo box with possibility of any user >> input. It is at least conceivable that some GUI platforms didn't have combo boxes at the time. I've a feeling that that is still true of Palmos. It is highly desirable that HTML form features can be implemted in native terms so that users are dealing with familiar interfaces and browsers don't have to implement widget libraries.
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