[10104] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Proposal: "On Off" switch HTML forms Input Object (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Jernigan)
Tue Jul 2 09:29:11 1996
From: jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
To: lee@piclab.com
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:56:56 -0500 (EDT)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199607012157.OAA04530@web1.calweb.com> from "Lee Daniel Crocker" at Jul 1, 96 02:57:57 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>
> > This document proposes a new type of input object, an "On-Off
> > Switch" for HTML forms, and in doing so, proposes new values for
> > the TYPE= keyword.
>
...
> And to top it off, you write up a whole Internet Draft
> rather than just toss out the idea to see what people think.
> Well, you win my award for the most amount of work expended
> on the stupidest idea in years.
>
The essence of the proposal seems to be lost in the size of
the document. Isn't this a proposal for an event? Somewhat
onClick() in JavaScript..., you define the side effect for
selecting a button.
bob
