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From: "Ian Hickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "WHAT WG List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Looking at menus in HTML5...
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
Ian, this @label in menu is a bit ugly. Consider following...
Here is what I need:
<menu>
<li><b>F</b>irst option</li>
<li><b>S</b>econd option</li>
<li><b>T</b>hird option - submenu
<menu>
....
</menu>
</li>
</menu>
Pay attention on "Third option - submenu". It contains additional markup
and/or styling.
Assuming you mean for the boldened letters to represent the accelerator
key, the idea is that you don't have to give them at all, the user agent
will determine the optimal accelerators.
That was just an example.
I mean that either you allow all menu items to have
arbitrary markup or all of them should have plain text only
model (so be an <option>).
In real UI there are cases when menu even contains input
elements: http://terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/images/css-menus.png -
so may have arbitrary markup. Menu items even
can be organized as a table (<td role=menu-item>) :
http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/images/popupdemo.png
How you would achieve this with the @label?
You don't need to bolden the letters, so it all Just Works.
Sorry but I am not so optimistic. You cannot build
optimal shortcut system deducing only captions.
Think about cut/copy/paste/select-all menu items
written in different languages.
Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com
