[whatwg] Suggestion: Implementation of Tabbed Forms

Sat Aug 28 00:04:28 PDT 2004

On 27 Aug, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Matthew Raymond wrote:
>
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
>> I've run into several cases where I've needed this. For example,  
>> writing a game application with four screens, all implemented in the  
>> same HTML file: the login screen, the game "lobby" screen, the actual  
>> game screen, and the results screen. Only one of those is to be  
>> displayed at any one time.
>
>    That's _presentational_ mutual exclusion. I fail to see how that  
> amounts to _semantic_ mutual exclusion.

Whoa, déjà vu.  
<http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-July/ 
001237.html> Perhaps it would be better if semantic mutual exclusion  
and "Implementation of Tabbed Forms" were discussed in completely  
different threads?

Anyway, HTML already has an element for semantic mutual exclusion:  
<html>.

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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/