- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:56 +0100
- To: Forms WG <public-forms@w3.org>
John, This sounds like a valuable extension. -Erik On Dec 17, 2008, at 8:23 PM, John Boyer wrote: > > Dear Forms Working Group, > > In the case of modal and modeless message actions, there has been no > standardized way to specify the caption bar content. > > In XForms 1.2, shouldn't we just add the label element as a > potential child element of the message action? > > This would give us the freedom to specify exact text or to obtain > the text from the instance data. Granted someone *could* try to put > very elaborated content, including images, into the caption bar, but > we could make it clear that simple char data is required to > implement and more elaborated content is optional. > > In the ephemeral message case, the label content could simply be > prepended to the other content. > > Finally, this might be seen as the "long hand" of having a simple > label attribute for elements like message, as well as UI controls. > Currently, "XForms for HTML" proposes such an attribute for form > controls, but it seems natural to extend the attribute to anything > that allows the label element as a child. > > Thanks for considering this. > > John M. Boyer, Ph.D. > STSM, Interactive Documents and Web 2.0 Applications > Chair, W3C Forms Working Group > Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software > IBM Victoria Software Lab > E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com > > Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer > Blog RSS feed: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/rss/JohnBoyer?flavor=rssdw > -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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