[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 40218] Disable interactive form validation in non-standard modes

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40218


Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  2010-06-14 15:20:11 PST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > I’m not sure that compatibility mode vs. strict mode is the way to handle this. Maybe someone made the mistake on a website in strict mode too.
> 
> We can say "your website doesn't conform to HTML5" in that case.  But we can't say it for existing HTML4 sites.
> 
> Please look at Bug#40520 too.

Existing HTML4 sites can also be in strict mode. In fact, a fair number of HTML4 sites have a standards mode or almost standards mode doctype. I don't think we should make new features be based on a  modeswitch. The philosophy of HTML5 is to make new features backwards-compatible so they can be progressively deployed on existing sites. If HTML5 @required causes too much compatibility fallout, then we should:

(a) Remove HTML5 @required support entirely for now.
(b) Report our findings to the HTML WG and proposed renaming the attribute.

I don't think making the feature strict-mode only is an appropriate fix.

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