- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:55:34 -0700
- To: dsr@w3.org
- Cc: raman@google.com, mark.birbeck@x-port.net, www-forms@w3.org
Dave -- To make the authoring of repeat attrs intuitive, we explicitly added repeat- as a prefix to the attr names from memory ... Dave Raggett writes: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, T.V Raman wrote: > > > For repeat via attributes, I suggest applying the xforms repeat > > attributes to fieldset --- we originally designed that set to go > > on html tr element. > > I initially looked at the WebForms 2.0 approach to this but felt > that it was too tightly bound to tables and that a more elegant > approach was worth it. I therefore looked at the minimalist idea of > just providing the set of fields and their labels that are to be > repeated. The common styling will be as a number of rows with each > label applying to the column below it. After a few experiments, I > ended up with some code that separates the labels from the fields > and then generates a table to wrap them. I tried using CSS for this, > but it requires there to be nodes that act as table rows, and in any > case it didn't work with Internet Explorer. I therefore chose to > generate the HTML table elements as needed. You can see an example > at: > > http://people.w3.org/~dsr/forms-lite/9/index.html > > and also > > http://people.w3.org/~dsr/forms-lite/11/index.html > > The fieldset element then acts as the XForms repeat element and > takes an attribute that specifies the initial number of rows to > show. XForms uses the number attribute for that, which makes sense > given that it appears on the repeat element. However on the HTML > fieldset element, having number as an attribute name wouldn't be > obvious to most people as a means for indicating that the contents > will be repeated. I therefore used "repeat" instead. > > This is where I think we could do with inviting people who are > respected web developers to provide us with the perspective of > the authoring community that will be using this stuff. > > p.s. there are a number of other issues relating to repeated > fieldsets but I will leave that to later discussion. > > Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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