[whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jul 13 12:17:59 PDT 2005


On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
> Jim Ley wrote:
> > For example does my user agent which submits form purely under 
> > programmitic control with no user keyboard action required to fire the 
> > click event or not?  I'd say that was submitting the form implicitly 
> > more so than pressing enter in a text field.
> 
> I think the intention of the spec is that a form must always be 
> submitted by a specific button. So if your UI allows you to submit a 
> form e.g. by clapping your hands once, the onclick event is still fired 
> on the default button and the name=value of the button is still 
> submitted.

Correct.

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