I second Anne's opinion about a new attribute isContentEditable. Both
Internet Explorer and Safari have implemented this already although
Safari's support for inherit has a few bugs. It really is needed for
compatibility.
The empty string indeed causes the element to be contentEditable in
both IE and Safari. I'd suggest to make the element editable if the
attribute value has the empty string.
On Jan 19, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
The following would match Internet Explorer (and Opera's current
implementation):
- The empty string
- "true" (case-insensitive match)
-> Content of the element is editable.
- "false" (case-insensitive match)
-> Content of the element is *not* editable.
- Any other value
-> Equivalent to not specifying the attribute.
This is based on some tests I made last year http://
dump.testsuite.org/2006/contenteditable/ to find out what we had to
do in Opera.
I think it would also be a good idea to add the isContentEditable
DOM attribute to HTMLElement as it needs to be supported for
compatibility and it allows you to find out whether or not an
element is editable when the contenteditable attribute is not
directly specified on it (but on an ancestor element).
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
