Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-20 Thread Brett Patterson
OK. For the last almost 24 hours, I have been trying to get the link to the results posted on the server to work, but have failed miserably. The results were made public to subscribers of the newsletters they mail out every month. They have not yet decided to use the Internet to mail out the newsle

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Buchanan
So exactly what behavior is mandated for UAs implementing HTML5 if > a form is submitted with a 'required' element unsatisfied? If I'm reading http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#required0correctly, the form just won't submit if a "required" field is empty. Not sure about the UI f

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Ben Buchanan wrote: Looking to the future, HTML5 is introducing a simple "required" attribute: "The new required attribute applies to input (except when the type attribute is hidden, image or some button type such as submit) and textarea. It indicates that the user has to fill in a value in o

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Buchanan
> > Therefore, I was wondering if it would be feasible to include a standard > that would use a syntax similar (does not actually *have* to be this way) > to selected="selected"? In which case, the syntax would be > required="required". Or, if it is an email input (i.e. Your e-mail > address:). Th

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Luke Hoggett
Hi, What was the poll and are the results publicly available? There is a difference in asking if a user would like to have javascript turned off and them actually having it turned off, check: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/November/javas.php only 6% have it off, and many of these will b

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Brett Patterson
OK. I had forgotten you could use server-side validation. Thanks. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Anthony Ziebell < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remember to use server side validation and you don't need to worry about > rewriting standards :) > > > Brett Patterson wrote: > > I know that most, if

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Anthony Ziebell
Remember to use server side validation and you don't need to worry about rewriting standards :) Brett Patterson wrote: I know that most, if not possible to say all, Web page designers use _javascript_ for form validation. During a recent poll done by a few local colleges, 41.2% of the people w

[WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Brett Patterson
I know that most, if not possible to say all, Web page designers use JavaScript for form validation. During a recent poll done by a few local colleges, 41.2% of the people who responded stated that they would rather not have to enable JavaScript, but on rare occasion they do for certain sites that