[whatwg] Incremental rendering of forms

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Aug 25 15:42:25 PDT 2004


On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Olav Junker [iso-8859-1] Kjær wrote:
> >
> > So instead of inventing a new attribute, why not just change the 
> > content models of TABLE, THEAD, TBODY, TFOOT, and TR to allow FORM 
> > elements?
> 
> Surprisingly (at least for me) this seem to work already in Firebird, IE6
> and Opera. I agree this would make sense to formalize as part of WF2, its
> useful.

It "works" in simple cases, but a quick look at the DOM will show that 
actually it's just a big parsing hack.

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