- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:40:44 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, fantasai wrote:
>
> I don't see why you're calling these sections "mutually exclusive".
> The /presentation/ of each section excludes the presentation of other
> sections, but I've yet to see an example of how the sections are
> themselves mutually exclusive.
The example I originally had in mind when proposing the concept of
mutually exclusive sections was that of a game which had three "screens",
the first is a login page, the second is a game board view, and the third
is a high scores view. The three are mutually exclusive.
I've seen wizard interfaces where the views are mutually exclusive too.
I agree that a tabbed interface is probably semantically just a group of
fieldsets with a different presentation. I'm not sure how we should do
tabs though. I really dislike making authors re-use existing elements with
just different attributes, a la:
<fieldset role="tab">
<legend> ... </legend>
<p>...</p>
</fieldset>
<fieldset role="tab">
<legend> ... </legend>
<p>...</p>
</fieldset>
...and I'm not sure it's purely presentational, to the point of just being
a CSS rule:
fieldset { display: tab; }
I'll think about this some more though.
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