----- Original Message -----
From: "Henri Sivonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Travis Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [whatwg] a few thoughts
On Jul 6, 2007, at 21:24, Travis Miller wrote:
New list member here. I'm excited to see the W3C moving toward
standardized support for web apps.
Welcome.
1. Slider form controls:
There's already <input type='range'>:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#range
2. Expandable/collapsible hierarchical trees: Every modern operating
system of which I'm aware supports this UI element natively, so it would
be easy for user agents to implement, and they are very well-suited for
representing many kinds of data structures.
Does <datagrid> meet your needs?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#datagrid0
Why <datagrid>? I think <select> is just enough in this case as
<optgroup> can contain other <optgroup>s now.
Problem with <select>/<option> is that they do not allow
markup inside - only plain text. This limits its use significantly.
3. Tabbed content:
This was in the draft at some point but it was dropped. I'm not sure
about the details of the reasoning why.
--
Henri Sivonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
About Tabbed content:
Tabs control is a binding of set of radio buttons (or labels that behave as
radio buttons)
with the set of panels. Value of radio group is bound to the visibility of
correspondent
panel. This schema works perfectly if stripe of labels and panels are
independent DOM
elements. But when labels and panels are combined into single element like
<tabs>
it is impossible to define reasonable layout using CSS in its current state.
This, btw, reminds me the question I wanted to ask while ago:
All elements introduced by html5 should appear in
"master" style sheet similar to this: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1#appendix-a
otherwise if they will use some non CSS definable layout we
will end up with another <table>s situation.
There are few elements emerged already that are impossible to define in CSS
terms.
<footer> and <header> are examples that I can recall immediately.
So is the question: does this imply that HTML5 shall have synchronous CSS5
thing
or not?
Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com
