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Bug 18368 - It's not intuitive to have hidden field in mode default. It easily breaks data consistency when the user clicks reset button and requires non-trivial client side coding efforts to correct it. Please see firefox issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.
Summary: It's not intuitive to have hidden field in mode default. It easily breaks dat...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-24 00:21 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-01 23:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-24 00:21:12 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#hidden-state-(type=hidden)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#hidden-state-(type=hidden)

Comment:
It's not intuitive to have hidden field in mode default. It easily breaks data
consistency when the user clicks reset button and requires non-trivial client
side coding efforts to correct it. Please see firefox issue
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253226. 

Posted from: 167.216.131.126
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-01 22:46:19 UTC 
All the browsers I tested (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari):
   http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1811
...seem to do what the spec says.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-01 23:26:50 UTC 
IE9, too, according to astearns. So I doubt we can change this. (This presumably means IE changed since 2004, when the issue was first raised over in the Firefox bug mentioned above.)