- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:33:22 +0000 (UTC)
I just added a first shot at a section for doing tabs in the Web Apps draft. It is probably not perfect, comments welcome. I tried to take into account the various comments that were made on this list regarding tabs, including this e-mail from Matthew: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > We've seen similar demos. You will note that this specific one doesn't > display properly in IE6. This is one of several problems that are > encountered by webmasters. Here's a list of problems with the current > system regarding tabs: > > 1) Inconsistent Standards Support > > This wouldn't be such a problem if we were talking about a single > standard, but a tabbed control that performs in the same way as the > equivalent OS widgets requires HTML, CSS and Javascript. This makes it > very easy to write a tabbed control that breaks on a specific browser or > in a specific configuration. The proposed solution is just an HTML element, so it should address this. > 2) High Learning Curve > > The creation of tabbed controls requires specific use of multiple web > standards that some may not be able to cope with or may not find it > worth the effort. This places the use of tabs out of reach for amateur > or hobbiest webmasters. Since it's just HTML here, that should be resolved. > 3) Lack of Encapsulation > > Current solutions do not take the form of objects. Therefore, one > typically has to edit the source files used to create a widget in order > to style it. For those who may be using source they didn't write, this > could be disastrous for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, there is no way to style the proposed widget. However, XBL would be the way to do it on the long run. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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