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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13608
Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:
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Status Whiteboard|need use cases |
--- Comment #30 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-12-07 20:29:12 UTC ---
Designing features so that they have sane fallback is one of our core values.
In this instance, it's not the only reason, though. It also makes it possible
to reuse existing features without having to redefine them. For example, if we
want to have a toolbar button or context menu item that opens a new window, we
reuse <a href="" target=""> because we already have the semantics for that
element all carefully designed. If we want a toolbar button that submits a
form, we can reuse <input type=submit> or <button type=submit>, because they
already have all the interaction with forms that we need. If we want a radio
button, we can reuse <input type=radio> because again, we already have all the
logic there. Similarly, we reuse <hr> for separators because that's the <hr>
element's semantic. Etc.
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