And as it turns out we have a spec issue covering this:
https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=112
-roger
Ed Burns wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:58:08 -0400, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain_at_Sun.COM> said:
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> 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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