- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:32:47 +0200
>>>> 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. Somehow, I feel this is contradicting with your other statement that Javascript may be required because it is an application. > CSS is optional by design. We can't rely on CSS for fallback > behaviour. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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