- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:42:30 -0800
- To: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "T. V. Raman" <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
Interesting observation --wonder how the CSS group feels about
turning CSS classes to a means of acquiring interaction behavior
which is what your suggestion would lead us to.
What I mean is--
today you use CSS class="squareFlashingRedButton"
to get a particular look;
what you're suggesting is to create
class="squishyUnresponsiveButton" to mean attach a particular feel to
all elements having that class.
>>>>> "Shelby" == Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com> writes:
Shelby> Although I am very happy that XML Events encourages the
Shelby> declaration of events and handlers orthogonally with
Shelby> respect to the content markup, IMO a major omission is
Shelby> that target attribute of listener is only an IDREF.
Shelby> It is common that a particular listener (event + handler)
Shelby> needs to be applied to large number of content nodes
Shelby> (elements), and it would nice if target attribute provided
Shelby> a way to classify versus redundant declarations.
Shelby> For example, look at the new CSS TreeMenu I coded on the
Shelby> (left frame of) following page, and note that the same
Shelby> onclick event and handler is declared for nearly every
Shelby> node of the tree:
Shelby> http://coolpagehelp.com
Shelby> What is needed is some way to specify a set (a class) of
Shelby> elements to which the same listener could be assigned.
Shelby> Perhaps there is some way to leverage CSS's selectors
Shelby> technology for specifying targets or using CSS to assign
Shelby> listeners to selectors.
Shelby> -Shelby Moore
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Best Regards,
--raman
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