[whatwg] I dont like "successful"

[Olav Junker Kjær]

Validation is defined as happening only for successful controls (section 
4.4). Because of that, unchecked checkboxes, radiobuttons, and file 
fields with no selected files will not be validated. This is bad, since 
"required" (and "min") constraints will not be enforced then.

I don't like the property "successful", since it's likely to be 
confusing for authors ("what is the difference between valid and 
successful?"), and it is of limited use. It's really just a detail about 
how to encode the form data set, not something of interest to the page 
author.

Also, the WF2 "successful" property is slightly different that in HTML4, 
where it seem to be defined per value rather that per control. E.g. in 
HTML4 each selected option in a select multiple list are considered 
successful, while in WF2 "successful" is a property of the select 
element rather than the option elements.

Maybe the spec could instead use the term "validatable controls". The 
validatable controls is TEXTAREA, SELECT and all INPUT-types except the 
buttons and the image type.

When a form submission is initiated (or validate() is called), 
validation is performed on all non-disabled validatable controls in the 
forms elements collection.

If none had errors, the dataset is generated from the validated controls 
plus the control that initiated the submission. Each control may 
generate none, one, or several name-value-index triplets in the dataset, 
dependent on the type and state of the control.

I dont know if this is less confusing?

Olav Junker Kjær