Re: linking other elements to a "command"

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.

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