On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:21:10 +0200, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
I think that depends largely on how many, and how big, sites are
affected by this. Do you have a list of known sites with this issue?

No, I was just raising the issue to see what people thought.  Maybe
someone from Opera could share a reason why they don't follow the spec
here, unless the spec was different when they implemented it or
something.

From what I can see this was changed in Opera four years ago after some debate [1]. The big problem was pre- and script-filled fields that exceeded maxlength. Users got confused when fields they hadn't touched threw an error. See also [2] and [3]

Sites that broke back then were: (I don't know know if any of them still are affected, many require login)

The YaBB forum software
SuperOffice eJournal (a support system Opera used)
http://kayak.com/ (was fixed after we pointed it out)
http://www.costco.com/ (internal navigation)
http://www.nowwhere.com.au (zooming maps)
http://www.zap2it.com
http://www.kwick.de/forum

1) https://bugs.opera.com/browse/DSK-151609 (sorry, Opera access only)
2) http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-February/005695.html 3) http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-January/005459.html

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Ola P. Kleiven
Core Compatibility PM
Opera Software

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