[10095] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Proposal: "On Off" switch HTML forms Input Object (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. Hedlund)
Mon Jul 1 18:35:34 1996
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:32:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "M. Hedlund" <hedlund@best.com>
Reply-To: hedlund@best.com
To: Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@calweb.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199607012157.OAA04530@web1.calweb.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> Well, you win my award for the most amount of work expended
> on the stupidest idea in years.
Hardly -- competition in that category is fierce, and this proposal isn't
even a contender for "stupidest" -- and there is no point in slamming
people who are trying to improve HTML. I think most people agree that HTML
forms could use some work. I do think that this idea simply replicates
checkboxes with a different proscribed UI, but I also think it is good to
talk about the limitations of forms. Sometimes on/off switches _are_ more
intuitive than checkboxes.
Whatever happened to the proposed features for greying out input elements
(I think I saw this in an early 3.0 draft)? Did anyone other than Bill
Perry ever implement this feature?
Marc Hedlund <marc@organic.com> <hedlund@best.com>
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