- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:27:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Old?ich Vete?n?k wrote: > > Imagine you have a (for example) category tree like this: > > * Cars > * Sporty > * Limo > * 18 wheeler > * Bloody good > * Big > * Places to live in > * Villa > * Flat > * Under bridge > ... > > and you are to select one for your article of some sort. <optgroup> isn't > capable of doing this at the moment as it cannot be nested and you cannot > select "Cars" category (it's its label attribute). Currently this is done by > intending with spaces and, in my humble opinion, it doesn't look too > accessible - I wouldn't want to crawl through it with my screenreader if it > was a longer list. > > I'm here to ask if there is/could be a better way than intending. On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > This has been suggested before, and even made it into the spec at one > point, but got removed because there didn't seem to be a way to do this > in a backwards-compatible manner. There was also the suggestion of a > new element to use for this case, but that appeared late enough that > it's being pushed to "v2" for the moment - html5 already makes a *ton* > of changes and additions to forms. ^_^ TJ is exactly right. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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