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Re: Radio Button strange behaviour in Firefox.

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From: Weston Thayer
Date: Jun 24, 2020 4:48PM

Doh! Thanks for pointing that out Patrick.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 2:28 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On 24/06/2020 19:45, Weston Thayer wrote:
> > There was a thread
> > <https://web-a11y.slack.com/archives/C050D9NHZ/p1580492505053200> about
> > this on the web-a11y Slack earlier this year. Firefox's behavior does
> > appear to be in conflict with the spec <
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/RadioButton>
>
> That's not really a "spec" though, just a note in a wiki? Unless I'm
> mistaken, it's not actually normatively defined anywhere how user agents
> should behave (at least I can't see anything in
>
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#radio-button-state-(type=radio)
> at first glance).
>
> So this is more down to Firefox making a deliberate choice of how to
> interact with these controls, which is arguably neither right nor wrong
> per any spec. Against convention? Sure. But wrong? Undefined...
>
> P
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