With the switch to oxide, this has been fixed. There’s one difference with how e.g. chromium and firefox behave though: the form won’t be submitted if the required field is empty, but no visual feedback is provided to the user to let her know that she is expected to fill out the field.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272288 Title: the required attribute is ignored Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: What happened: 1. navigated to http://jsfiddle.net/bU4gf/show/ 2. clicked submit without typing anything into the required input 3. form was submitted What was expected: Like in firefox, chrome, chromium I expected a warning to appear and the submission prevented Spec http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage /common-input-element-attributes.html#attr-input-required To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1272288/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
