Re: Implied NAME attribute for INPUT tag?

Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
Sun, 18 Jun 95 21:30:31 EDT

> What I said was that NAME should be #REQUIRED, so that users with proper
> editors get prompted for a name, even at the expense of putting "submit"
> or "reset" as the value for NAME as well as TYPE...

No! NO! NO! ... If the NAME aattribute is specified, then the name
value pair must be sent to the server as part of the request when
a SUBMIT button is clicked and for reset, a name has NO semantic
meaning. THis could cause currently conforming and working
applications to suffer grief.

I see that, but I still feel that we are causing authors and would-be
authors more problems by making NAME optional.

For SUBMIT, I can see a good reason for specifically _wanting_ a name
to be sent, when you have multiple optional SUBMIT fields (which I
thought the DTD allowed).

For RESET, this action doesn't cause any send or receive activity, so
the presence of a name should not be relevant, should it?

///Peter, feeling fuzzy at 2.30am