- From: R.J. Keller <rjkeller@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:10:51 -0500
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:50:56 +1000, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at iinet.net.au> wrote: > No! Tabs are a presentational, not structural, and thus should not > be included in (X)HTML, or any other semantic markup language. > But tabs would be about as presentational as tables, which are included in the XHTML specification. > > Something like a number of div's where there's always one visible, and > > the rest automatically hidden. > > There are already methods available that do exactly this, which > remain accessible with either or both CSS and JS unavailable. For example: > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/eatcake/ > * http://www.alistapart.com/d/eatcake/5.html > You can find a way to do almost any feature using CSS and JS, but the amount of code that would be reduced by this add-on would be enormous. IMO, this would be a useful for dial-up users who wouldn't need to download a ton of code to produce this effect. Yes, you can make the debate that it won't reduce it by much, but it will increase code readability and decrease download time if there were a lot of tabs. -- R.J. Keller mozilla.org Help Systems Module Owner http://mozilla.org/projects/help-viewer http://rjkeller.blogspot.com/ http://mozcreator.mozdev.org http://macrotracker.mozdev.org
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