I concur.

If I had a nickel for every clueless person who makes more money than
me, I would make more money than I do.

Cary

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Joe Hourcle
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
>
>> I just registered for an overflow block room at
>> https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=7466136
>>
>> I noticed when I got to the Guest Details page that there was a
>> checkbox in the Contact Information block -- "Yes, I'd like to be
>> notified…" -- which was checked (not surprising) and not changeable
>> (that was surprising). Peeking at the code, I noticed that the form
>> tag had the words, "checked" and "disabled".
>>
>> Now, since nobody could be so slimy as to do this intentionally
>> (right?). I helped them out by using my in-browser editor to correct
>> this oversight, because I wouldn't want them to waste electrons
>> sending me email that I don't want.
>
> Unless they're doing something to un-disable the form when you submit,
> there shouldn't be an issue in most browsers, as the 'disable' also implies
> 'don't bother sending when submitting'.
>
> It's implied in the HTML4 spec, but I don't know if it's required behavior:
>
>        http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.12
>
>
> Now, if they had set it 'readonly', then yes, you should worry.  Or that
> whoever made the form doesn't know what they're doing, and as I've
> often found out, those people seem to get paid way more money than
> I do even though they're clueless.
>
>
> -Joe
>



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com