- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:25:02 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > > > > I would recommend that suggestions avoid new elements, especially when > > those elements have a lot of attributes, and especially when the > > element has semantics very similar to an existing element. > > The "output" element in WF2 shouldn't really be a new element. The > semantics and interface are very similar to the input element > (especially a input type=text with readonly). I agreed, originally. However, I couldn't bring myself to require people to write: <input type="output"> As much as it would be really cool from a fallback perspective, that's just too wrong to keep. (I think it was in the spec for about 2 weeks before I just snapped and had to change it.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Received on Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:25:02 UTC