[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - Comments on sections 1 and 2

[Matthew Thomas]

On 15 Jun, 2004, at 6:15 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, fantasai wrote:
> ...
>>>> What about radio buttons in sets where none of the buttons are  
>>>> marked as checked? I really think this should apply to those as  
>>>> well.
>>>
>>> The problem is, which control do you put it on?
>>
>> any?
>
> Ok so what's the processing model? Which control gets the invalid  
> event? Which control is marked as having non-zero validity?

I would like UAs to just make it impossible for none of the radio  
buttons in a set to be chosen. "Exactly one radio button should be set  
in the group at all times"  
<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/ 
controls.html#controls-radio-buttons>. If the author doesn't specify  
which one should be chosen initially, the browser should pre-select the  
first one, just as it does for SELECT elements  
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.6.1>.

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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/