On Thursday 2009-10-15 14:02 +0100, Steve Workman wrote: > I've been looking at styling HTML 5 elements using CSS3 and have come across > some examples where it doesn't suffice. > > A recent html5doctor.com post on the meter tag ( > http://html5doctor.com/measure-up-with-the-meter-tag/) brought up some > issues with styling of such an element. I wrote a blog post about it here: > http://www.steveworkman.com/web-design/html-5-web-design/2009/my-problem-with-html-5-styling-meter/but In many cases, styling elements that have complex appearance (such as form controls and other widgets like this) is best accomplished using more than just CSS. There is a W3C candidate recommendation for XBL2, which is designed for problems like this: http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/ (Mozilla implements XBL1 (which is primarily intended for XUL) and we're working on XBL2, although it's probably still a little ways off.) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/Received on Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:30:42 UTC
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