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Bug 13448 - The image button notes that there are selected coordinates for the user's click on the image, but it doesn't mention (that I can see) how the user accesses these values? Is there a property that can be read in Javascript? What are the GET variables? Wh
Summary: The image button notes that there are selected coordinates for the user's cli...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, a11y_semantics
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-07-29 13:58 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-11-18 16:04 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-07-29 13:58:10 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/number-state.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#image-button-state
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#image-button-state

Comment:
The image button notes that there are selected coordinates for the user's
click on the image, but it doesn't mention (that I can see) how the user
accesses these values?	Is there a property that can be read in Javascript? 
What are the GET variables?  What are the POST variables?  I would find it
helpful to have these mentioned in the spec, whether by prose or by example. 
Thank you.

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Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor 2011-07-29 18:46:36 UTC 
The relevant requirements are here:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#constructing-form-data-set

Look for the step that says "If the field element is an input element whose type attribute is in the Image Button state . . .".  It would be useful to have a note in the definition for the image button state pointing there, because it's not obvious at all how the data gets encoded for submission if you're only familiar with other input/button types.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:31 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-12 21:38:37 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 4 contributor 2011-08-12 21:39:37 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6433.
Check-in comment: Try to explain type=image better.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6432&to=6433