- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:50:09 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
MegaZone wrote: > > Once upon a time Tim Bagot shaped the electrons to say... > >I think it would be useful to have another list-like element which could > >be nested to produce collapsible trees. This would also be useful for long > >lists of contents, permitting painless navigation of several levels of > >subheadings. > > That is active content - collapsing and uncollapsing lists. Which is > already possible with HTML+CSS+Scripting. And will be standardized with > the work by the DOM WG. Interactive content is not necessarily the same as active content. We don't typically use Javascript (et. al.) to traverse hypertext links or manipulate radio buttons and I don't think we should have to to get collapsible trees either. One important reason to avoid Javascript is that it is not a W3C standard, Web UAs don't have to support it, and the typical support for it seems to be horrendous. Client-side executable content should be saved for things that are truly unpredictable and unstructured, not merely things that vendors don't feel like implementing. If we had had JavaScript 6 years ago maybe we really would traverse links with tiny JavaScript programs. Yuck. Paul Prescod
Received on Thursday, 16 October 1997 20:48:18 UTC