[whatwg] form validation of values that aren't entered by the user

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
>
> I suggest that 
> 1) willValidate should exclude readonly controls. Nothing the user 
> can do about those anyway.

Ok. Changed.


> 2) We should ignore maxlength errors for default values. Something 
> like the following pseudokode:
> 
> if current value length > maxlength
>     if current value != default value
>     // user changed text not according to restrictions
>    show validation error messag
> else// assuming author error. ignore. and submit form anyway

Done.

Thanks for your feedback.

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