<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:16 PM, TAMURA, Kent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tkent@chromium.org">tkent@chromium.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
There are some objections against omitting invisible controls from form validation. However, it is a real issue with existing sites and users can't submit such forms at all though they can submit it with non-HTML5 browsers.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>How many existing sites? What sites are asking for form validation but then not actually working with it? If this isn't a large number, I would prefer to stay as-is and let the sites fix themselves.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div>My conclusion is it's better to disable interactive form validation for existing sites as possible. e.g. disabling interactive form validation for documents without "<!DOCTYPE html>".</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think this is a mistake.</div><div><br></div><div>PK</div></div>