- From: Shawn Wilsher <me@shawnwilsher.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:00:02 -0400
Ric, Hopefully, you aren't duplicating work that has already been done here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wf2/ Granted, this is only for IE, but nearly half of your work is already done then. Cheers, Shawn On 10/2/06, Ric Hardacre <ric at hardacre.org> wrote: > I'm attempting to write Javascript scriptlets to emulate some of the Web > Forms 2.0 spec in HTML 4 documents. Firstly, they obviously need to > degrade for non-scripting UAs, which is easy enough. Secondly they need > to check that they're running on a compatible scripting engine, just > checking for the existence of document.getElementById is the simple way > (If there are better ways then I'm always open to learning). But I'm > presented with an issue, suppose for example I wanted to emulate the > datalist element for a text box. I can use the DOM and some on-the fly > CSS to build a Javascript emulated datalist, but how would one go about > ensuring that if/when it encounters a browser that can handle the > datalist that it does not execute? This is probably quite an open > question and yes I'm aware of the embedding-a-select-inside-the-datalist > solution to this particular example, but the general question remains: > How to script WF2 functionality for current browsers in a way that both > degrades AND yields to the UA when it can handle the functionality natively? > > Ric Hardacre > http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/ >
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