- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:47:26 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Will Levine wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:22:48 +0100, Jim Ley <jim.ley at gmail.com> wrote: > > <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> > > > > So all that is necessary is defining the few self known classid's for > > the different new elements, remember OBJECTs are already part of form > > submissions in HTML 4.01. > > Whatever happened to this idea. It seems like it was never officially > shot down, but discussion about it just died out. It still seems a > good idea to me. We decided to drop it because IE6 drops the <object> element from the DOM, so using the above would mean you can't implement the combobox in IE6 using HTCs or JS. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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