- From: TV Raman <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:17:18 -0700
- To: werner.donne@re.be
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
button has been renamed to trigger --if the schema doesn't reflect
this --it's an edit bug that we'll fix.
Werner Donné writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> The form controls in XForms are abstract, i.e. an XForms implementation
> is free in mapping them to actual GUI elements, so long as the specified
> XForms behaviour is adhered to. A selectOne control, for example, can be
> implemented as a listbox, a checkbox, etc.
>
> I therefore think that the name "button" is too narrow for the button control.
> Command control or action control are better names because they express
> the logical task of the control. It could be implemented with a button, but
> also with an item in a popup menu or a keyboard shortcut, or even with
> all of these together. Such implementations are, of course, not common in
> browsers, but XForms is not limited to such an environment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Werner.
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>
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Best Regards,
--raman
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