- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:58:34 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- CC: James Elmore <James.Elmore@cox.net>, www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Brad Kemper wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:12 AM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > >> It is a trinity of equally valuable entities: DOM element, style and >> behavior. >> >> >> De facto there is a set of behaviors already. All <input>s can be >> presented as set of declarations: >> >> >> input[type="text"] { behavior: single-line-edit; ....} >> >> input[type="chekbox"] { behavior: checkbox; ...} >> >> input[type="radio"] { behavior: radio; ...} >> >> >> If you will start think this way then suddenly you will discover >> >> that you can reuse behaviors for almost all other UA activation needs. >> >> >> E.g. some list with <li> that have assigned behavior:radio to them >> >> may behave as an accordion widget with proper styling. >> >> >> So it is a matter of separation of behavior from dom element and styling >> >> that according to old "divide et impera" principle will only help us >> to reach new quality. >> > > That's one small step (or perhaps one giant leap) beyond what I was > talking about, but I would welcome it, if we could ever get to that > point. It would seem that radio and checkbox behaviors could apply to > a wide variety of elements, but I have a hard time imagining what it > would mean to apply a single-line-edit behavior to a UL, or a > pop-up-menu behavior to a radio input, for instance. Think about this: table#spreadsheet > td:not(:first-child) { behavior: single-line-edit; text-wrap:none; overflow:hidden; } <table id="spreadsheet">... <td>#1</td><td>123.34</td><td>456.78</td> </table> It will declare all cells in the table (except in first column) to be editable. And: input[type="radio"] { behavior: pop-up-menu; } will replace intrinsic behavior:radio by the new one for applied elements. May or may not have any sense. But (css) : menu { behavior: menu-bar; } menu menu { behavior: pop-up-menu; } menu menu li.option { behavior: radio; } does have sense. Isn't it? -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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