177345 - form elements not cleared on meta-refresh

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 46845

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[azimuth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

In the prepared page at http://www.sanctuary.org/~azimuth/mozilla-bug.html,
there are two radio buttons.  This page refreshes every five seconds. Mozilla
ignores the lack of a checked directive, choosing instead to keep the selected
radio button.  This was no doubt considered a feature at one time, but it screws
with some sites, in which the lack of a selection is meaningful within the
application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.sanctuary.org/~azimuth/mozilla-bug.html
2. Click on a radio button
3. Wait for refresh

Actual Results:  
The selected radio button continued to stay selected.

Expected Results:  
The state of all input fields (including the demonstration radio buttons) should
have been reset on refresh.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46845 ***