- From: Ulrich Nicolas Lissé <unlisse@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:33:04 +0100
- To: Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org>
- Cc: public-forms@w3.org, "public-xformsusers@w3.org" <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
Erik, as fas as I remember textarea/@mediatype went into Annotations [1]. I think we should stay with @mediatype instead of @accept because it specifies a single mediatype instead of a space-separated list. Regards, Uli. [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Annotations On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org> wrote: > All, > > I thought this had been discussed in the past but I can't seem to see > it in the XForms 2 feature list [1]. Our implementation supports [2]: > > <textarea mediatype="text/html"> > > so you can use a "rich text" editor to enter formatted text. > > Note that in the case of text/html, the requirement is really to > produce an HTML *fragment*. > > Do any other implementations support this as well? > > I suggest we include standardizing the mediatype attribute in XForms > 2.0. Implementations might not be required to support particular > mediatypes besides text/plain. > > Based on the recent discussion on upload I wondered if @accept might > not be a better attribute name, but at this point I am a bit lukewarm > about the idea. Would it make sense to say that an text area accepts > both plain text or HTML text? How would the form then know which type > of content was produced? > > Alternatively, we could imagine using a @type attribute, like for > scripts, and support: > > <textarea type="html"> > > Comments welcome. > > -Erik > > [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Category:XForms20 > [2] http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-controls/textarea-control#TOC-Rich-text-editor-HTML-editor- > -- Ulrich Nicolas Lissé
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