blog.arithm » Web 2.0 http://blog.arithm.com Software. Politics. Tinfoil hat conjecture. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:00:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 readonly versus disabled http://blog.arithm.com/2008/04/10/readonly-versus-disabled/ http://blog.arithm.com/2008/04/10/readonly-versus-disabled/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:03:10 +0000 nurikabe http://blog.arithm.com/2008/04/10/readonly-versus-disabled/ I couldn’t seem to find a good breakdown on this anywhere and had to see what would happen trial and error.

  • readonly="1" will show a standard form element, however it will not be editable. Data will, however, be submitted.
  • disabled="1" will gray-out the form element. Data will not be submitted with the rest of the form.

At least, this is what Firefox does.

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What the heck is Microsoft thinking? Why didn’t they just buy Macromedia like the rumor mill has been threatening for the last half a dozen years? For that matter, why didn’t they release it bundled with Vista so that there would at least be an instant user base?

Unless Redmond does something sneaky, like pushing out Silverlight in automatic service packs, I just don’t see it achieving any market penetration for a long time.. if ever.

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