On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:51:39 -0500, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Timo Beermann wrote:
It should be able to implemet checkboxes, where by only
activating/deactivating this single checkbox you can active/deactivate
multiple other checkboxes. That is possible with scripting today, but it
should be possible without scripting, only with HTML/CSS. Because some
users deactivate Scripting (for security or whatever other reason) and
on other computers (school, university, work,...) you are not able to
change the settings, even if you want to. E.g. I use NoScript and only
allow scripting on very few trusted sites, that really need it.
I haven't added this yet, but it is already logged as a possible future
extension, so it's possible it may be added in the future.
What would be helpful though is examples of sites that do this kind of
thing, so that we can study how necessary it is, and how to implement it.
For instance, are the dependent fields always in a <fieldset>? Are they
always other checkboxes? Is there more complex logic than just "check box
A is checked so those controls are enabled"?
My non-web use-case is with
<https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/gmail-compose/?display=en>
(options.html in the unzipped package). I *disable* a checkbox when
another checkbox is checked. I just use addEventListener('input') and
check for e.target.checked to decide what to do.
However, it'd be cool if there were @disables and @enables for checkboxes
(at least) where you can specify a list of controls (that match @name I
guess). Those controls would still fire 'input' and 'change'.
In my case, since I'm already using JS, it's no biggie, but it'd still be
cool to do that part without JS.
--
Michael
