- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 03:29:39 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > I propose that the WHAT WG work on a specification for a subset of > Mozilla XUL that for the purposes of this message I will call XUL Basic. > XUL Basic will actually be the combination of two smaller XUL subsets > which I will refer to as "Keymaster" and "Gatekeeper". The parts of XUL that make sense for this work will indeed be merged into the Web Apps spec. > box > hbox > vbox These are presentational, and belong in CSS. > menu > menubar > menuitem > menupopup > menuseparator > tab > tabbox > tabpanel > tabpanels > tabs Context menus, drop down menus, and tabs (as seen on Web pages now) are needed, yes. I don't know that the XUL content model is the best though. > The second subset, "Gatekeeper", is designed to provide basic support > for forms that are similar in features to those you can currently create > using HTML. This subset allows the creation of simple XUL-based web > applications contained in their own dialogs or windows. This is what Web Forms is supposed to be. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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