Thompson, John wrote:
As I was reading through the differences doc I noticed that HTML5 is making it possible to move form associated elements outside of the form tag. This is a good step, I wonder though, why not go further and allow all but the submit button to be associated with multiple forms? I have many times needed more than one form on the page and if I could share a couple of those elements between forms (especially the hidden elements), that would be much simpler. Ideas?
can't see it happening, but perhaps detaching elements from being nested in a form and instead add a @contains attribute which is a comma separated list of elements in the form would be a good all round approach without limitations.
Quite sure this would create a whole host of issues such as what happens when you hide a form? Would only really be possible if form wasn't a display object.
However, probably best to focus on keeping it the stable and catching bugs rather than adding new functionality to age old elements with many backward compatibility considerations :)
Best, Nathan
