- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:17:06 +0100
Jim Ley wrote: > On 7/12/05, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote: >>Jim Ley wrote: >> >>>On 7/12/05, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote: >>>>Yeah. We are copying the windows common controls. >> >>We can't actually use them (common controls). The date control, for >>example, may not be installed. Besides, we don't want to for other >>reasons... > > > That's fine I understand that, so please go for a sensible, but > neutral approach, and don't try to ape the windows controls when you > can't do it, Mozilla don't ape the native controls, Opera don't ape > the native controls. This is a sensible approach when for other > reasons you can't use the native controls, as indeed you can't if > you're going for the HTC use anywhere approach. > We have to ape the native controls because we are in a Microsoft browser. They will just look wrong otherwise. Or at least "different". > >>Jim, we've been round the block on use of the <object> element. If you >>have anything new to add then let's hear it. > > > This is nothing to do with the use of the Object element debate, and I > can't understand why you think it is. > Apologies. I thought you were about to suggest using <object> to implement MS custom controls. :-) -dean
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