- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:08:02 -0700
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sander" <html5@zoid.nl> To: "Martin Atkins" <mart at degeneration.co.uk>; <whatwg at whatwg.org> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [whatwg] Web forms 2, input type suggestions > > Martin Atkins schreef: >> Benjamin Joffe wrote: >>> Have the following possible values for the TYPE attribute been >>> considered for the INPUT element? >>> >>> type="color" >>> The user agent would display an appropriate colour picker and would send >>> a hexidecimal string represting that colour to the server. >> >> I like this idea. It's simple and it's something I've implemented (and >> seen implemented) dozens of times. > I like this one too. It should have an pallet attribute that defines the > color pallet. I'm not shure how though, cause on one hand I'd like to be > able to choose easily from standard pallets, but on the other hand I'd > like the option to create custom pallets. Perhaps pallet="custom" combined > with a datalist could be an option here. > ... There are many possible implementations for different purposes. Here is one of color selectors we use in HTML: http://www.terrainformatica.com/sciter/screenshots/color-chooser.png I think it is not realistic to define all of them in single specification - too many different use cases. I would define some generic extensible mechanism for inputs rather than defining particular input type=foo. As an approach of making reusable HTML components: Part I: http://www.terrainformatica.com/index.php/?p=18 Part II: http://www.terrainformatica.com/index.php/?p=19 Part III: http://www.terrainformatica.com/index.php/?p=22 Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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