Re: Styling Controls

On 4/7/10 9:31 AM, Shelley Powers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs@apple.com>  wrote:
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>> On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Shelley Powers wrote:
>>
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>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:00 AM, John Foliot<jfoliot@stanford.edu>  wrote:
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>>>> If the lack of styling ability on certain proposed elements is seen as a
>>>> significant issue, and the relevant parties are expressing interest in
>>>> working together to resolve these problems, then I see this as a very
>>>> good
>>>> thing indeed. And if it was your Change Proposals that spurred on this
>>>> discussion, then thank you Shelley for moving the ball forward, even if
>>>> inadvertently.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> No, no, I really don't want credit for this. Maciej deserves all the
>>> credit.
>>>
>>>        
>>>> It will be interesting indeed to hear what the CSS WG has to say in this
>>>> matter, and whether any progress can be made here. I note that Maciej is
>>>> copying his thoughts to the www-style list for further discussion there,
>>>> so I look forward to seeing what comes next.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Yes, I will be curious to see the CSS WG's reactions to this sudden
>>> and intense desire to style form elements.
>>>        
>> At least in the case of the WebKit project, interest in styling form
>> controls is not sudden. As I mentioned in an earlier email, it's something
>> we've been working on in our implementation for years.
>>
>> However, your analysis of the tradeoffs between built-in semantic elements
>> and hand-rolled controls, as well as the WebKit project's recent progress on
>> implementing new HTML5 form controls, has made these issues much more
>> salient.
>>
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> Which of the new form elements and declarative elements has Webkit
> implemented? Are they in the nightlies? Is this documented somewhere?
>
>    
Here's a timely blog post on Ajaxian listing a few (unofficial) sites 
that try to document support:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/html5-forms-what-support-is-there

-Mike
>> Regards,
>> Maciej
>>
>>
>>      
> Shelley
>
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