- From: Oldřich Vetešník <vetesnik@mrmil.cz>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:27:24 +0200
Dne Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:03:53 +0200 Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> napsal/-a: > 2009/7/9 Old?ich Vete?n?k <vetesnik at mrmil.cz>: >> Hi, >> >> 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. > > 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 Okey, maybe HTML 6 will cover that... :) Thanks, OV.
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