On 2/21/12 7:35 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Not doing that last is actually a requirement for web compat, last I
looked at this.
Do you have any links to pages that break if a form with more than one
text field supports implicit submission?
Not offhand. Again, it's been a while since I looked into this, but at
the time this was being implemented in Gecko we carefully made the
two-input-no-submit case not submit. I thought that was for good
reason, but reskimming the bugs now I can't find the reason. It's been
over 10 years, so the details are a bit hazy in my mind. :(
For those who want to mess with the spec for this behavior,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99920 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109463 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147850 are necessary (but
probably not sufficient) reading.
I read those bugs, but can't see the reason why submitting a form with two
text fields and no buttons would break the Web. Can you elaborate?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22526 is the other bug that
needs reading, but it doesn't help either. I didn't look at the various
(and somewhat numerous) duplicates of the various bugs involved...
I suppose we could try submitting the "more than one text input, no
submit button" case and see what happens...
-Boris
