- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:38:19 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical@gmail.com>, "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:08 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Brad Kemper wrote: >> In my case, I used the styled link in exactly the same way that >> submit buttons are used: to look like a button and submit a form. >> It had an "onclick" handler that pointed to the same function used >> by the "onsubmit" of the form, and the link returned false to the >> link action of the href. So, when I needed the button-like link to >> be disabled, it was in exactly the same sort of situations where >> someone would want to disable a "submit" input. > > Sounds to me like you want a fully styleable submit button, not an > enable/disable-able link. > > ~fantasai Which of those two choices could happen quicker? I'm not elderly, but I suspect I would be dead and buried long before I could style submit buttons as fully and reliably as links. And as Andrew pointed out, there are a variety of elements that could benefit from the ability of being disable-able. Heck, even text could have a default look when disabled (gray) and could be non selectable in that state. I can't remember what it is that makes text non-selectable, or if it is a browser extension, but I can remember "disabled".
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