Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-13 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:05:45 +0600, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the menu feature is not being _designed_ for navigation, but I'm sure that authors would try to use it for navigation. There is a clear demand on Web sites today for menu-based navigation. A side note about

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-13 Thread Matthew Raymond
Nathan Heagy wrote: While it is true that authors will want to style their menu buttons it's not true that every menu item would need a label. In that case nesting menu inside its label becomes quite ugly with a menu of menus only some of which have labels: menu menulabel

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: Hmm. The name context as a menu |type| is more semantic, but less accurate in non-context-menu cases, such as popup menus and submenus. The name popup is more general, but more presentational. I'm not attached to context. (I'm not particularly

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: The problem with menulabel foo menu.../menu /menulabel ...is that finding the actual string that corresponds to the title is non-trivial. I don't see how it's any more difficult than dealing with a label.