[whatwg] Suggestion for Menus in Web Forms 2.0

[Matthew Raymond]

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Ah! Your problem there is that you're using an attribute for data that 
>> should be human-readable by default (even in the absence of CSS or WA1 
>> support). Don't do that; use an element instead.
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> 
> +1
> 
> This "tag abuse" comes from XUL I guess, where there are similar 
> constructs.

    Aren't we all forgetting that the webmasters may want the menu to 
degrade into nothing on legacy browsers? Using the |label| attribute and 
<command> elements, that can be done. Without |label|, the label text 
appears regardless of whether the user can see the menu. You're 
effectively eliminating a graceful degradation option for the webmaster.

    If you want an element counterpart to |label|, that's fine. 
Something like "menutitle" or "menulabel" would be fine. However, we 
need to keep |label| for those who may not want the menus to show up on 
legacy browsers.