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Re: ButtonRenderer encodeBegin

From: Michael Youngstrom <youngm_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:13:49 -0600

comment added. Thanks

On 9/20/07, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain_at_sun.com> wrote:
> I've given you access. See if you have permission to add comments to
> the issue.
>
> -roger
>
> Michael Youngstrom wrote:
> > One thing to keep in mind is with the Button element is its behavior
> > is broken in ie6 detailed here:
> >
> > http://hardlikesoftware.com/weblog/2007/02/27/html-button-is-not-useful/
> >
> > To get around this issue I implemented a button component similar to
> > commandLink using onclick.
> >
> > I just wanted to make sure the EG is aware of this issue when
> > considering it in 2.0. I would have commented in the spec issue but I
> > don't have rights.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 9/20/07, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew_at_apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >> you've my non-binding +1 for looking at it for 2.0 ;-)
> >>
> >> On 9/20/07, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain_at_sun.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>> 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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> >> --
> >> Matthias Wessendorf
> >>
> >> further stuff:
> >> blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/
> >> mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
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