From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-01-20T06:41:38+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: IE blatantly defiant of HTML standards


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Tom Sawyer (transami@transami.net) wrote:

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> so i'm developing a huge web app in Ruby and i've been using Mozilla. i h=
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> been very careful to reduce potential cross-compatability issues. so i go=
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> run the app on IE to see how it fairs, and right off the bat i get an err=
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> turns out that IE does not submit a <button> tag's value attribute, but=
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> rather tries to submit the entire innerHTML of the button! yes, that's ri=
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> the whole content, no matter what it is, <img>, <table> whatever. how=20
> idiotic! i did a bit of research and this was supposed to be fixed by IE5=
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> well i just installed IE6 and it still does it. It is such an obvious err=
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> that it amounts to a BLATANT disregard for standards.
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> so to hell with them. unless someone shows me a way to fix IE, my app is=
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> simply not going to work on it and i don't care.

<button onclick=3D"some_js_function_to_DTRT()" ...>

> sorry, to rant, but i needed an outlet.

:)

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