>>>>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:58:08 -0400, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain_at_Sun.COM> said:
RK> No, it doesn't. That's something we could take a look at keeping backwards
RK> compatability in mind. I can open up a spec issue for that (if there's
RK> not already one).
The original historical reason was: when JSF 1.0 was coming out, the
state of browsers was such thath the <button> element was not supported
in all of our target browsers.
I believe this must continue to be the default behavior, but I can
imagine supporting input type="button" as well.
Ed
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