Re: Comments on Proposed XHTML Module: Web Forms 2.0

Cool - the clarification is good.  I'm still a little uncertain about 
entering items with a separator, however.  I always forget which 
character I'm supposed to use- especially when I'm forced to send mail 
with Outlook.  :)

I know that it's not the standard's job to specify the exact UI in the 
browser, but I'm certain the email-like GUI present in the spec at the 
current moment will end up in IE at some point.  ;)

I don't know if I have a better idea, but perhaps the recommended UI 
should be one that changes from this (when unfocused):

+----------------------------------------+
| matt@aclaro.com, foo@something.com ... |
+----------------------------------------+

to this text-area-like-one-per-line layout (when focused):

+----------------------------------------+
| matt@aclaro.com                      |^|
| foo@something.com                    | |
| whoever@whereever.com                | |
| *    <-- insertion mark (?)          |v|
+----------------------------------------+

Perhaps someone can come up with a better idea than myself, but the idea 
is there and might prompt some discussion.  :)

Matt.

Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> 
>>In what form is the data from the editable select drop-down made
>>available to the server?  I didn't find that the document made this
>>clear.
>>
>>Does the user use the comma to separate each of the items?  What if one
>>of the items contains a comma?  Should the author be allow to specify
>>the separator?
> 
> 
> I've tried to make these clearer:
> 
>    http://www.hixie.ch/specs/html/forms/web-forms#extensions1
> 
> Is that better?
> 
> Thanks,

Received on Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:43:53 UTC