- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:35:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Darcy Murphy wrote (on help@): > > Recently I came up with the idea of using a <ui> tag in order to > semantically separate my app's content from it's UI chrome. I could use > <form> but then even clicking a simple <button> submits the form's data > when what I'm creating is more of a stateful toolbar than a proper form. (Note that you can work around that last problem by saying <form action="javascript:void(0)">, at least according to the spec.) > To that end, is there something like <ui> already available, or in the > works, or a better solution that I'm not aware of? I'm not clear on what you consider content vs chrome, so it's hard to really comment, but in general the <section> and <article> elements are available for this kind of thing. If you have a concrete example it would be easier to say whether the spec needs new elements to handle it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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