[whatwg] Why not creating a category for elements candidate for constraint validation?

[Simon Pieters]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:47:32 +0200, Mounir Lamouri  
<mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering why there is no categories for elements candidate for
> constraint validation. In the current state of the specs, all listed
> elements are candidate for constraint validation except when they are
> barred from constraint validation. Barring an element from constraint
> validation when it is in a certain state seems good but having elements
> always barred from constraint validation seems a bad idea. It makes them
> having the entire constraint validation API for nothing.
>
> Wouldn't that be preferable to have the constraint validation API
> implemented only on elements that can actually use it? I think it would
> probably be less confusing.
>
> So, anyone knows if there is a reason (too much categories already?
> easier describe in the specs?) to have this done this way or if it could
> be possible to have this new category?

I believe some elements have the API but are barred because it makes it  
easier to loop through form.elements and do the validation stuff without  
checking if the validation stuff is available on the element. (Same reason  
<textarea> has .type.)

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software