<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2010-08-28, at 12:59 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>"E.J. Zufelt" <<a href="mailto:lists@zufelt.ca">lists@zufelt.ca</a>> schrieb am Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:54:06<br>-0400:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">[…]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am rather new to this list and am curious if anytime recently there<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">has been discussion about adding tabstrip and tab elements to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">html5 spec? The concept of a tabstrip is a rather commonly used UI<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">component on the web (web-applications, content management systems,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">facetted searches) and it would be particularly useful for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">accessibility if we could communicate the semantics of the tabstrip<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">through markup.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[…]<br></blockquote><br>In your opinion, what is wrong with using <nav> and (nested) list<br>elements?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Using nav with a nested list has two problems that I can see.</div><div><br></div><div>1. nav is for navigation, but in a web app selecting a tab may nave nothing to do with "navigation", it may have to do with switching UI pages, which could potentially be considered "navigation".</div><div><br></div><div>2. Unless a list item can receive a selected attribute, then we would still have no method of presenting information about the selected tab through markup alone. Commonly the selected tab is given a class such as "tab-selected" and this meaning is communicated through style alone.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Everett</div></body></html>