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Bug 9084 - Opera's implementation of this treats the comma as a delimiter (i.e. if you select Abyssinian from the drop-down and type a ',' after that, it gives you the drop-down again to select another item). I like this feature but want to make sure it is interopab
Summary: Opera's implementation of this treats the comma as a delimiter (i.e. if you s...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-19 03:33 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:32 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-19 03:33:55 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-list-attribute

Comment:
Opera's implementation of this treats the comma as a delimiter (i.e. if you
select Abyssinian from the drop-down and type a ',' after that, it gives you
the drop-down again to select another item). I like this feature but want to
make sure it is interopably implemented so I don't need a script to do the
same in some browsers but not others. Can it be specced?

Posted from: 64.235.108.60
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-25 11:01:41 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: That seems to be entirely a UI issue. I try not to specify UI, since I prefer to have the browser vendors innovate and compete on it. There's no real need for the UI to be implemented identically everywhere — if another browser finds another way to allow you to use the <datalist> for autocompletion, e.g. per-word, or more intelligently than just at commas, then so much the better, IMHO.
Comment 2 Kartikaya Gupta 2010-03-27 12:01:33 UTC 
Ok, fair enough.