- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:17:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > That's not a menu. It's a MENUBAR. What's the difference? I would argue that the following are all the same: * menubars * pull-down menus * drop-down menus * context menus * toolbars They're just different presentations of the same underlying concept: lists of commands or options. menu n. A list of available options. This is why I think it makes sense to use one menu to describe all of them. Now, there is a small difference between context menus and the others in the list above in that context menus are irrelevant until activated on specific items, so we need a way to mark them. There's also a practical difference between <menu> as implemented today and <menu> as we want it to work (with natively implemented dynamic UI), so we need a way to mark those too. This is why I was thinking of an attribute on <menu>. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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