On Sep 3, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>
>> What we need is not a becomes="" attribute (that renames an element and
>> therefore forgoes its semantics) but rather a way to get complete
>> control over a semantic element and tweak aspects of it. Otherwise
>> creating such controls is prohibitively expensive and only useful if you
>> have vast resources.
>
> Exactly. This is in fact how XBL works. This is why the widgets in the
> HTML spec are defined in terms of bindings -- the idea is that authors can
> then provide their own alternative bindings or inherit from them. We would
> provide basic bindings that they can reuse in their inheritance chain,
> e.g. so that they can override just the look of the button but get all the
> interactive behaviour (accessibility roles, keyboard navigation, mouse
> click reactions, etc) for free.
>
Isn't that the domain of CSS?
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