291936 - Submitting a form while tab is loading should cancel and re-submit

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 StumbleUpon/1.9995
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 StumbleUpon/1.9995

See steps to reproduce.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a page where you have a form which, upon submitting, takes long enough
to load for you perform the remaining steps to reproduce.
2. Submit the form.
3. While the thing is loading, change some of the values in the form.
4. While the thing is still loading, select the submit button again.

Actual Results:  
Once the thing finishes loading, you realise that it has submitted the old
values only, and it has ignored the fact that you selected the submit button a
second time while it was loading.

Expected Results:  
The first submission should have submitted the old values, and the second
submission should have cancelled the loading and submitted the new values.

It's fine by me if this is by design (to prevent duplicate submission from
accidental double-clicks) and you decide to WONTFIX this (but you should NOT do
that just because I said this).

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

I confirm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.7)
Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425 Firefox/1.0+ . As Timwi says this is maybe a wontfix.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep, this is the result of the code that suppresses double-submits.  I believe
the current behavior is the only one that can be sanely implemented if
double-submits are to be avoided.