On Mar 31, 2006, at 01:10, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
Is it conforming to have no option that is marked selected? (I
think allowing this is safe.)
I'm pretty sure we've been through this before -- I think it
shouldn't be, ratemy*.com thinks it should be, and there are more
of those sites than there are of me. :-) (Why they don't just use a
set of numbered <input type="submit">s, which would work even with
JavaScript off, I have no idea.)
Those are radio buttons. The spec says the UA should select the first
non-disabled <option> in the <select> case.
On Mar 31, 2006, at 03:31, fantasai wrote:
Hixie would have said something about it being nonconforming to
have no
selected options at that point, and wouldn't have had multiple
examples
of <select>s with no selected options, if that was what he meant.
Good point. I only read the spec prose that dealt with UA behavior
and was silent on conformance.
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