Re: Svar: Re: Request for specific changes to CSS3-UI

>>> Fre, sep 2, 2005 kl.  9:18 am skrev Daniel Glazman
<daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> i meddelelse
<4317FCBD.7040803@disruptive-innovations.com>:
> 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?

Correct.

> 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?

Yes.

> 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.

I'm tempted to say that many things in CSS are :) But yes, I see your
point. Problem is, I do not have a better naming scheme at hand, except
maybe :contentEditable... But that's "just syntax" :), as long as we can
agree on the semantics.

... Allan

Received on Friday, 2 September 2005 15:34:00 UTC