Re: [Lynx-dev] problem with readonly==disabled assumption

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, David Paschal wrote:

> Hi.  Somewhere between Lynx versions 2.8.6 and 2.8.7 a change was made to assume that "readonly" text-entry 
> fields on a webpage should get the "disabled" attribute applied in Lynx's internal representation of the 
> page.  I suspect the intention behind this change was to ensure that the field was actually unmodifiable on the page, 
> which it accomplishes successfully.  However, an unfortunate side effect of this change is that upon form-submission of 
> a page, any "readonly" (and therefore disabled) text fields are omitted from the submitted data, causing 
> problems with websites that expect the previous read-only data to be provided with the submitted form.  Other web 
> browsers (Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome, etc.) presumably pass the "readonly" data with the submitted form the 
> way Lynx used to before this change was made, because otherwise such websites wouldn't work properly with those other 
> browsers either.

thanks (I'll revisit this to see if I can find a better solution).

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