- From: Chris Wilson (PSD) <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:21:32 -0700
- To: "'Lee Daniel Crocker'" <lee@piclab.com>, walter@natural-innovations.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Actually, the point of the BUTTON tag is to allow rich content (e.g., images and marked-up text) in a button - which INPUT is incapable of, since it is not a container. -Chris Chris Wilson cwilso@microsoft.com *** > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Daniel Crocker [SMTP:lcrocker@calweb.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 11:11 PM > To: walter@natural-innovations.com > Cc: www-html@w3.org; www-style@w3.org > Subject: Re: BUTTON element > > > OK, here's another idea. I use a RAD environment on the Macintosh > called > > FaceSpan [1], which has a pictbox property called 'selection style'. > The > > property values are as follows: > > > > none pictbox or cell does not highlight > > by hilite white areas of pictbox or cell are overlain > > with the System highlight color (from the > > Color control panel) > > by invert colors of pictbox or cell are inverted > > by lasso colors of pictbox or cell are inverted > within > > contours that exclude the pictbox's fill > color > > by frame pictbox or cell is surrounded by a frame > > by sink pictbox or cell is surrounded by a column of > > pixels on the left and one row of pixels on > > the top > > by exchange a different artwork resource is used for the > > highlighted pictbox > > > > So, how about assigning a selection-style to the <INPUT> element? > > Something like: { selection-style: invert } > > > > Perhaps selection-style values of: > > hilite | dim | invert | sink | exchange > > > > although I'm not sure how exchange would interact with PRESSED > attribute. > > 'dim' would simply darken the colors: FF->99, CC->66, 99->33, > 66/33/00->00. > > Much, much, better than that hideous, incompatible BUTTON tag. If one > absolutely /has/ to break compatibility for a feature, that's fine, > but > this is not anywhere near such a case: <INPUT> works just fine, and > its > display attributes belong in a style sheet--even the X,Y argument is > uncompelling, because they can be ignored easily.
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