- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:51:19 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote: >> >> I fail to see how <object> would make sense here. Could you expand on your >> proposal? > > <object name="combo" classid="urn:web-forms2-combobox"> > <label> or select from the list:</label> > <select name="combo"> > <option>Item 1</option> > <option>Item 2</option> > <option>Item 3</option> > </select> > </object> We couldn't use urn: (at least, not without registering a URN namespace). But it's an interesting idea. What do others think? >> But in this case, we are talking about making legacy UAs _show_ the >> contents. So why would this be relevant? > > Just in general, it's not a good idea to have wildy different DOM > heirachies in different UA's, it makes scripting much more complicated > for example. Unfortunately, if that's the main argument behind using <object> instead of <datalist>, then it doesn't work, because in IE, the markup you gave above has no <object> element in the DOM. This would probably also make making a backwards-compatible version significantly harder (Dean?). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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