- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:53 +0100
Ian Hickson wrote on 29/07/08 03:21: > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >... >> I'm suggesting that since it is common for entire menus -- or >> toolbars -- to be temporarily irrelevant, such as when focus is in a >> field or pane where they do not apply, there should be a disabled= >> attribute for disabling an entire <menu>. >... > My concern is that once we extend this mechanism so that you describe > commands separate from the menus and toolbars that they are found in, > and maybe when we add a way to map keyboard shortcuts to commands, > disabling a toolbar or menu simply won't work, and it'll confuse > authors. > > i.e. I'm hoping we eventually get to a system like: > > <head> > ... > <command id="copy" label="Copy" onclick="copy()"> > <command id="cut" label="Cut" onclick="cut()"> > <command id="paste" label="Paste" onclick="paste()"> > </head> > ... > <menu type="toolbar"> > <command command="copy"> >... Okay, that seems reasonable. Just so long as that command-centric system eventually appears. :-) Thanks -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ ---AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM)---
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