- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:30:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Hallvord R. M. Steen wrote: > > the text about the "command concept" here: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html#concept-command > > states: "Once a command is defined, other parts of the interface can > refer to the same command". > > On reading that, I thought the spec intended to allow several > buttons/links/interactive features in a page to refer back to one > command (thus "inherit" that command's disabled/checked/hidden states to > the extent they would make sense for that element). > > The spec doesn't actually seem to enable this though. If I do > <menu><command id="c" onclick="foo()" title="Do foo > action"></command></menu> and want a <button> elsewhere to represent > that command, how do I link the <button> element to the <command>? Did I > misunderstand the concept? Oops, that text should have been commented out. It is referring to the command="" attribute that I specced out but removed from the first version. I imagine we'll introduce it in a future version of the language. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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