On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:57:03 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak
<[email protected]> wrote:
Indeed, we seem to copy the following things for form controls:
value,
checked state, indeterminate state. We don't seem to do anything
special for any other elements.
The change to clone form state was made based on this bug report:
<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5177
>. The bug report cites Mozilla and IE behavior but does not mention
a real-world site depending on this, though I would presume there was
one.
I think this behavior should be specified in HTML5.
I guess that makes sense. Though I would personally prefer if we
could move the HTML5 specific bits of DOM Core to Web DOM Core which
then would simply state the exceptions for HTML documents. That way
the methods are defined in one place which makes more sense to me.
Is Web DOM Core official enough that HTML5 could normatively reference
it yet? Once it has some standing, it might make sense to move HTML
exceptions to DOM Core behavior there. Until then, I think it makes
sense to define them in HTML5.
Regards,
Maciej
