- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:31:29 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> I have had repeated requests for this from Web authors, and received
>> numerous notes praising the idea since publishing a draft with it in.
>>
>> That's persuasive for me.
>
> I believe you, but could you summarize or point to some of the concrete use
> cases? I would like to be persuaded also.
There are various use cases and reasons, such as:
* Not changing the content model of HTML element like <table> is quite
important since there are many legacy parsing issues involved
* Prefilling fields that are not contiguous from two different files
(as in:
English [ ............ ]
Norwegian [ ...........]
English [ ............ ]
Norwegian [ ...........]
...where the English fields are one form, and the Norwegian fields
are another.)
* Having subforms, where you have, e.g., one form covering most of the
page, and then little forms within it.
* Being able to predefine the form submission URIs at the top of the
page and then using them without having to think about what form an
element is in.
* etc.
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