- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:35:43 -0400
This is a revision of an earlier idea I had. The general purpose of
this attribute is to support popups. Sample code time!
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<div id="myPopup" repeat="template">
<p>Random popup stuff</p>
</div>
<input type="text" value="some text" context="myPopup">
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Since templates are not displayed, the <div> element above is not
rendered by a Web Forms 2.0 UA. For Internet Explorer, the context
attribute is ignored, and CSS can be used to suppress rendering of the
<div> element.
For all intents and purposes, the template would be treated as the
child of the element referencing it in its context attribute. The block
would be automatically removed once it looses focus or processes some
kind of user input.
(Actually, now that I think about it, if the UA is IE, Javascript
could be used to move the template <div> over the <input> element, make
it visible, and handle the events, et cetera.)
At any rate, the end result would be a popup that doesn't require
Javascript(on WF2 UAs) and can contain whatever content the user would
like, even non-menu content. In fact, the attribute need not even be
limited to form elements. Now that I think of it, this may be more
WebApps 1.0 territory...
At any rate, comments welcome, even the ones that point out my
obvious ignorance and stupidity. ;)
Received on Friday, 25 June 2004 07:35:43 UTC