[whatwg] Web Forms 2 stable draft draft

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
> You write:
> > The model used by the validity  DOM attribute is not very clean, and
> > may deserve to be replaced with something that has been thought
> > through with more care
> 
> Perhaps the bit field interface could be left out.

Yeah, I'm considering it. My main reason not to just do it is that it 
would require _massive_ changes to the draft (everything is currently 
defined in terms of the bit masks, and the object is then defined in 
terms of that).


> A better solution would perhaps be to add an attribute, "isValid" to 
> ValidationState. So you could write:
> 
>  if (field1.validity.isValid) ...
> 
> Only problem is that the naming seems a bit strange. "validityState" 
> would be clearer than "validity", but also a bit more cumbersome.

That's pretty much the line of thought I had on the matter.


> Anyway, it seems a bit redundant to support both the bit field and 
> property interfaces.

I agree. Hence the comment in the status section. :-)

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