[whatwg] formNoValidate/novalidate/willValidate

Peter Kasting pkasting at google.com
Tue Aug 25 21:14:15 PDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Dean Edwards <dean.edwards at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looking through the spec I see the following DOM properties:
>
> * formNoValidate
> * novalidate
> * willValidate
>
> "novalidate" sticks out like a sore thumb. Can we change it to
> "noValidate". It's only mentioned in the IDL so maybe it's a typo.


IIRC when we (my GSoC student and I; he's been working on form validation in
WebKit) encountered this recently, we assumed it was a typo, and I used the
snazzy little "file a bug from directly on this page" UI on the spec to note
it.

PK
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