[whatwg] HTMLForms: Implicit Submission with {display:none} button

[Glenn Maynard]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> > (It also explicitly says that if implicit submit is supported but

> there's no submit button in the form, the implicit submit must still
> > happen.  That doesn't sound like it could be followed, since lots of
> > pages are probably depending on the absence of a submit button
> > suppressing implicit submit. That's just backwards-compatibility, not
> > platform conventions, though.)
>
> Do you have any such pages to point to?
>

Nope, only the assumption that the weird browser behavior related to this
could only be for that reason.  I'll be happy if this proves unnecessary;
this ugliness has caused me headaches in the past.

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> > Why is this authoring question? As an user, I'd like to know whether
> > pressing enter in my text field triggers implicit submission or not.
>
> Whether it does or not should be based on the conventions of the platform.
>

I don't think the existence of implicit submit should depend on platform
conventions, though, for interop on forms without visible submit buttons.
 The form implicit submit takes is a platform convention, but it should be
required to exist in some form or another.

-- 
Glenn Maynard