[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - Comments on sections 1 and 2

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 17 Jun, 2004, at 4:10 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Laurens Holst wrote:
>> ...
>>> Note. Implementors are advised that future versions of HTML may
>>> extend the grouping mechanism to allow for nested groups (i.e.,
>>> OPTGROUP elements may nest). This will allow authors to represent a
>>> richer hierarchy of choices.
>>
>> Indeed. In fact Web Forms 2 mentions this as being allowed now.
>
> [snip various quotes about how nested menus are bad]
>
> Those HIGs exist for a reason.

Fair point. I've removed the allowance for nested optgroups.


> Or you could forget OPTGROUP (please?) and introduce a tree control
> instead.

Yeah, that'll be in Web Apps 1.0.

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