[whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Greg Houston
This may just be another one of my crazy ideas, but web applications are increasingly using resizable elements such as resizable windows, resizable form columns, image croppers and so forth. Currently this requires injecting one or more handles into the element you wish to resize and absolutely

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:40:20 +0200, Greg Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I realize this may not be feasible, but thought I would throw the idea out there. Is this what you're looking for: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize ? While on the topic of borders, it

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Martin Atkins
Greg Houston wrote: While on the topic of borders, it would also be nice if there was a CSS property for their alignment, outside as is the current default, and inside. Pushing my luck, I would like to see the same options for the strokes in the canvas element with the addition of center which

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Greg Houston
Hi Anne, Thanks. I need to read through the various CSS3 specs. On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this what you're looking for: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize This fulfills the basic idea, though the spec seems to leave

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:58:35 +0200, Greg Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize This fulfills the basic idea, though the spec seems to leave the resize mechanism up to the imaginations of the UAs. All it says is that the resize mechanism is

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Greg Houston
Regarding a couple of the new UI elements in HTML5, it is not clear to me from the spec if the meter and progress elements are purely UA designed elements or if the developer has control over their styling. You can probably style them using XBL in due course. They are similar to form