- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:43:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > 2.2.6. The command element and commands > > > > > > Why is the content model of the COMMAND element empty? It would be a > > > lot better imo if it was designed like BUTTON. That would also mean > > > that the LABEL attribute can be left out. > > > > The <command> button is intended to be used in situations where you > > don't want the menu to render at all on a legacy browser. Therefore, > > if it has text inside it, that text will be rendered when the user > > doesn't want it to be. > > We have CSS to deal with this. Markup should be designed independent > from presentation, especially when that is possible. > > (And it is possible, since Internet Explorer 6.0 does support 'display' > enough to deal with this.) Lynx doesn't. CSS is optional by design. We can't rely on CSS for fallback behaviour. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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