[whatwg] [WF2] Readonly and default pseudoclass matching

Ian Hickson wrote:
> Why would you want the borders to change?

That's a good question, but on the other hand why would you want a disabled 
readonly field to ever look different from a disabled read-write field?  From 
the user's point of view they're the same.

> It seems much more useful to treat them independently, otherwise when you 
> disable something you can no longer style it based on what it would act as 
> if it is was enabled.

Right.  What are the use cases for that, though?

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:37:14 UTC