- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:13:55 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:29:44 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak > <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> I agree that styleability is important in this case. Particularly >> so because many sites have been forced to build their own date >> pickers, and would want to continue to reflect the site branding. I >> wonder if Opera has experience to share here (I believe they have >> implemented all the date inputs). Is there author interest? Is the >> implementation stylable, or is the implementation conducive to >> adding styling? > > I believe date pickers is one of the more popular features (though > before it's going to be used there need to be more implementations), > but styling in Opera is currently not possible and authors do really > want that. > > We should really provide a way to do styling for controls, but so > far nobody has been tackling that problem. Perhaps it's time to start a spec on form control styling. In WebKit, we've found that CSS styling plus control-specific pseudo-elements can go a long way. Would such a spec more appropriately be an HTML WG product or a CSS WG product? Regards, Maciej
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