[whatwg] WF 2.0 -- HTMLTextAreaElement [ type ] attribute

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

Actually, I suspect I was confusing the type property with the proposed 
ACCEPT attribute (thinking of the TYPE attribute used for SCRIPT and 
STYLE, which refers to the full MIME type not just the (super-)type). If 
the type property is the same as for the INPUT element, then this has 
seemingly nothing to do with MIME types: 'hidden' isn't a MIME type for 
instance and input type="image" does not submit an image.

Sorry for the red herring. :(

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> Of the MIME type text/plain, text is the type and plain is the subtype.  In
> my opinion, the type property should not vary in order to remain consistent
> with its behavior in other controls; you can suggest a subtype property if
> you find it useful.
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [mailto:bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:08 PM
> To: Kristof Zelechovski
> Cc: 'Garrett Smith'; whatwg at whatwg.org
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] WF 2.0 -- HTMLTextAreaElement [ type ] attribute
> 
> Presumably return a MIME type e.g. text/plain, text/html. IIRC this idea 
> was never fully thought out. Many textareas accepting HTML actually want 
> a fragment and often only a subset of markup. It would be handy to have 
> some way of specifying such profiles for clientside authoring tools to use.
> 
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> 
> Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>> If I were one, I would return "text", just like it does in an input
> control
>> does.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
>> [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Smith
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:53 AM
>> To: whatwg at whatwg.org
>> Subject: [whatwg] WF 2.0 -- HTMLTextAreaElement [ type ] attribute
>>
>> Regarding the [type] attribute:
>> ================================================
>> interface HTMLTextAreaElement : HTMLElement {
>>            attribute DOMString       defaultValue;
>>   readonly attribute HTMLFormElement form;
>>            attribute DOMString       accessKey;
>>            attribute long            cols;
>>            attribute boolean         disabled;
>>            attribute DOMString       name;
>>            attribute boolean         readOnly;
>>            attribute long            rows;
>>            attribute long            tabIndex;
>>   readonly attribute DOMString       type;
>> ================================================
>>
>> What does the |type| attribute do?
>>
> 
> 
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