On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@opera.com> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:00:04 -0700, Bruce Lawson <bru...@opera.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:28:50 -0000, Futomi Hatano <i...@html5.jp> wrote: >>> >>> Because such controls are ignored when the form is submitted. >>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/forms.html#form-submission-algorithm >>> Nameless controls are meaningless in form submission. >>> So, those controls do not need to be validated, I think. >> >> Thanks! > > FWIW, there have been some requests on dropping this since nowadays form > controls are not always associated with a form, but the validity concept can > still be useful in such scenarios.
Yeah. I think in the interest of 'least surprise', I think such controls should be validated too. If someone added validation constraints to such a control, I would think it's more likely than not that they wanted to control validated. / Jonas