[whatwg] Incremental rendering of forms

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:37:47 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
> > Here's an example:
> > 
> >   http://whatwg.org/demos/multiform-01/
> > 
> > It seems to work fine in legacy UAs, but uses the multiple form feature
> > for WF2 UAs, giving users of those UAs better experience.
> 
> Oh I missed the part of the specification that limits the forms with
> cloned elements from other forms to being empty, could you point it
> out? 

I don't understand the reference to cloned elements here.

However, there is no such restriction as far as I can understand your 
question.


> Your example is a restricted example of "elements in other forms"

My example was intended to demonstrate how the feature could be used in 
backwards-compatible ways. It is of course quite possible to use most of 
the new features in ways that completely break in legacy UAs, for example 
one could use any of the new DOM APIs without checking that they are 
implemented, and that would not work. If authors _want_ to not support 
legacy UAs, then that is obviously up to them. I am merely intending to 
make sure that authors are not forced to chose between targetting new UAs 
only or old UAs only.

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