Re: Next form element

JRS: In article <XuNDf.4478$tb3.2396@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net>, dated
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:53:59 remote, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript,
BootNic <Bootnic@bounce.prodigy.net> posted :
>
><button type="button" onclick="x.readOnly=(x.readOnly)?false:true;
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ugh!
>x.focus(); x.select();">toggle readOnly</button>

As is well-known, I dislike using new-fangled constructs instead of
older equivalents as soon as they become available in the latest
systems, since that handicaps those with older software.

And I don't recall ever seeing <button ... > in anyone else's source.

But (with or without type=button) it works in my IE4, and is acceptable
to two local testers.

In which versions, at about what date, did it appear in browsers?

Are there other special cases of <input type=... > that are widely
implemented?
 

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