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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mar 25, 2002 8:09AM

It is true that some older browsers (notably Netscape 4.x) do not support
the button element, but it is the way the HTML 4.0 specification provides
this functionality and underlines the need for browser developers to
support standards. There is a push within the industry [1] to support and
improve upon support for standards. Notably changes in the W3C process [2]
make implementation requirements a part of the recommendation process for
new specification.

I did a test [3] on recent release browsers and they appear to support the
button element.

Netscape 6.02 (Windows and Macintosh)
Opera 6.0 (Windows)
IE 6.0 (windows)
IE 5.1 (Macintosh)
Mozilla 0.9.2.1 (LINUX)

Jon

[1] http://www.webstandards.org/
[2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/
[3] http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/tests/button.htm


At 09:29 AM 3/25/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Jon Gunderson wrote:
>
> > <button type="submit"><span style="text-decoration:
> > underline">S</span>ubmit</button>
>
>Unfortunately, the <button> element is far from universally supported.
>Several browsers ignore <button> tags and render just the content, so the
>form wouldn't work at all.
>
>Solutions like using an image submit button (containing an image of text
>with underline) also cause more problems than they could solve.
>
>Besides, underlining, even if succesful, is irrelevant to blind people.
>
>The conclusion is that if you use accesskey attributes, the only way to
>ensure that all people who would benefit from them will be aware of them is
>to write explicit textual explanations. More on this:
>http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html#display
>
>The situation is unfortunate, since the explanations will disturb people who
>cannot use accesskeys, for some reason or another, or don't find them
>useful.
>
>--
>Jukka Korpela
>TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehitt