On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:41:40 +0200, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:16 PM, TAMURA, Kent <tk...@chromium.org>
wrote:
There are some objections against omitting invisible controls from form
validation. However, it is a real issue with existing sites and users
can't
submit such forms at all though they can submit it with non-HTML5
browsers.
How many existing sites? What sites are asking for form validation but
then
not actually working with it? If this isn't a large number, I would
prefer
to stay as-is and let the sites fix themselves.
The following sites have workarounds in Opera's browser.js to allow form
submit:
airgreenland.com (using required on hidden elements)
barnesandnoble.com (using required on visible elements that are supposed
to be empty on submit...)
bookryanair.com (using required=false - this usage has also been found in
JS libraries)
ingdirect.com.au (using required on a visible field, but then emptying the
field with JS before submit)
usairways.com (using required on hidden elements)
Most of these have been using it for several years and have not responded
to change requests from our side.
We have also seen a couple of instances of wrong input types (number where
text expected etc.), but the usage of "required" is the biggest problem in
my experience.
My conclusion is it's better to disable interactive form validation for
existing sites as possible. e.g. disabling interactive form validation
for
documents without "<!DOCTYPE html>".
I think this is a mistake.
PK
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Ola P. Kleiven, Core Compatibility, Opera Software
