On 22/10/2008 19:58, "Ian Hickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Wilson wrote: >> - allowing hidden <input>:s to actually live anywhere (this is >> probably hard to do dtd/validation-wise) > > It's easy to specify, the problem is that it makes it easy for authors to > get in trouble if they change the type attribute on the fly (e.g. in an > editor or from script).
>From an implementation perspective this makes life a lot harder as well since the allowable positions for input now depend on an attribute rather than just the tag name. WYSIWYG editors would also find it difficult to indicate the presence of the hidden field in odd locations like between table and tr even ignoring the fact that they'd have to move it if the author changed the type. Regards, Adrian Sutton. ______________________ Adrian Sutton, CTO UK: +44 1 753 27 2229 US: +1 (650) 292 9659 x717 Ephox <http://www.ephox.com/> Ephox Blogs <http://planet.ephox.com/>, Personal Blog <http://www.symphonious.net/>
