- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:18:21 +0200
- To: Allan Beaufour <abeaufour@novell.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Allan Beaufour wrote: > I've thought some more about this, and the above is what is meant in an XForms > content. It also mimics how :enabled/:disabled works for HTML content, > because that is also tied closely together with an attribute on the element. > So maybe having an :editable selector wouldn't be such a bad idea. > > If you are designing a form, based on an editor template where you can only > edit some parts of the form, the form would have parts that are :editable by > you and some that are not. Input fields can be styled depending on whether > they will be :read-only or :read-write to the user, no matter the :editable > state of the part they live in. Hmmm. So you mean :editable and :read-write are not synonyms, right? I think I understand what you have in mind here: in a browser, a text field is :read-write if the user can type chars in the text field, and it's editable if for instance the user can select it, type on the delete key and see it go away? If that's what you have in mind, then yes, that's a very good catch, and an important one. But in the specific case of text fields where user input can affect the value of the element OR the contents/model of the element, I think the names of both :read-write and :editable will be highly confusing. </Daniel>
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