[whatwg] Review of the 3.16 section and the HTMLInputElement interface

[Samuel Santos]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > If changing the button text can be a security issue (e.g. induce
> > >> > the user to an action that he's not aware of), we can come up with
> > >> > some solutions.
> > >> >
> > >> > What about allowing the Author to change the control's locale? By
> > >> > doing so, the UA can then render the button with the same locale as
> > >> > the application without compromising the security.
> > >>
> > >> It seems like browsers should do this already based on the lang=""
> > >> attribute. I recommend asking browser vendors to implement this.
> > >
> > > @lang will definitively fix the problem if browsers are willing to
> > > implement it.
> >
> > Ian, can I ask you to please check this with browser vendors?
>
> I don't think the problem is worth fixing, so I'm probably not the best
> person to convince them. :-)


Ian, I've find it really hard to convince someone from
english speaking countries that this is an issue.
But it really is. As is the limitation of decoration of this control.

What I'm really trying here is to have a valid option in HTML5 so we don't
have to rely on techniques like these:
- http://swfupload.org/
- http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html


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