Re: Not delivering {bugs,gnats,faq}.html in releases

[Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >> That's no longer true. Try it, by default no component is selected, 
> >> and not
> >> setting one gives you a red error box.
> >
> > That seems browser-dependent.  The first browser I tried with, lynx,
> > showed ada as selected.
> Then lynx is broken.
> The form specifically has no component selected by default.
> Lynx apparently decides to select the first one in this case, rather 
> than doing the right thing, which is to not select anything.
> I'll note my  text browser, links,  does the same thing, but i *know* 
> it's broken in this regard, because i submitted a patch to fix it.

It seems that one way to work around the browser bug is to just add a
dummy first entry, with text something like "Select category".