On 9/4/05 (10:48 ) Miguel wrote:

>>>As a reminder, things must be enclosed in <form> tags because of
>>>Safari.
>>>
>>why is this so?  I develop everything in Safari, it being the most
>>generally compliant browser that I know.  control elements seem to
>>work ok for me, inside or outside of the form container, as long as I
>>am not trying to submit anything to a server script.
>
>Good. Then perhaps they have fixed this in Safari.
>
that would be...nice. :-)


>My email below is from Aug 2004. At that time the then-current
>Safari required that <input > tags be contained inside <form> tags
>in order for radio buttons to behave properly. I do not recall if
>there were other problems.
>
ah; a lifetime ago.  maybe they have fixed it.


>Per my other message, the w3c HTML 4.01 spec says that <input>
>elements to *not* need to be contained inside <form> tags:
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.2
>
>
>Since HTML 4.01 was the basis of XHTML, I believe that this still
>applies.
>
I would agree.


thanks for the clarification,

tim
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