[whatwg] formNoValidate/novalidate/willValidate

[Simon Pieters]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:14:15 +0200, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com>  
wrote:

> 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

There's also formnoValidate actually, and formaction vs formAction on  
HTMLButtonElement vs HTMLInputElement. Also see  
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7389

>> "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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Simon Pieters
Opera Software