On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 15:20 -0700, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Looking specifically at <datagrid>'s ability to fall back to <select>, I > >>> agree that it's not necessarily doing to be widely used, but given that > >>> it's so simple to support and provides such a clean way to do fallback, I > >>> really don't see the harm in supporting it. > >> > >> I haven't looked at <datagrid> yet, so I can't comment. > > > > I think he meant <datalist>. <datagrid> was axed quite some time ago > > and hasn't made a reappearance that I know of. > > Ah, well, then it definitely seems like we should get rid of this > feature. The harm is definitely there in that it's adding a feature > without solving any problem.
The current design solves the problem that the <datalist> feature needs to Degrade Gracefully (and preferably without having to import a script library). I think the solution is quite elegant and don't see a need to drop it. -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
