I see your point, to go for another route, maybe you'd just edit the
source of the problem (the note), remove it and include a text similar
to the remark about the disabled attribute. I.e:
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When an input element is disabled, it is immutable.
When an input element is readonly, it is immutable.
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However, there is no readonly concept defined (maybe this will clarify
more, but actually I think it's likely to complicate things even more).
Hence, another suggestion could be:
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An input element to which the readonly attribute applies and has that
attribute specified, is immutable.
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Cheers,
Rikkert Koppes
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Rikkert Koppes wrote:
At [1] I'd suggest changing the second sentence to "When specified and
applicable, the element is immutable".
[1]: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-input-readonly
Yeah, I keep thinking of doing something like that. The reason I haven't
yet is that I don't want to go down the route of people seeing that and
thinking that that means that other things in that section might apply
even when they don't (the intro to that section explicitly says that
nothing there applies if the attributes aren't applicable).
