- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:29:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote: > On 17 Jun, 2004, at 4:10 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Laurens Holst wrote: >> ... >>> Note. Implementors are advised that future versions of HTML may >>> extend the grouping mechanism to allow for nested groups (i.e., >>> OPTGROUP elements may nest). This will allow authors to represent a >>> richer hierarchy of choices. >> >> Indeed. In fact Web Forms 2 mentions this as being allowed now. > > [snip various quotes about how nested menus are bad] > > Those HIGs exist for a reason. Fair point. I've removed the allowance for nested optgroups. > Or you could forget OPTGROUP (please?) and introduce a tree control > instead. Yeah, that'll be in Web Apps 1.0. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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