[whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

[Anne van Kesteren]

Quoting Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au>:
> My point is that this command menu is basically made up of a label, a 
> select control and a button, and that we already have a <label> 
> element for associating with select elements.  Therefore, we don't 
> need to use another type of label element for that.  <menulabel> is 
> fine for navigational menus.

That would also require a <form> element around the command menu. I wonder if
there always is a <form> element. There was also this suggestion:

# <select>
#  <option label>Action ...
#  <option>Select All
#  <option>Deselect All
#  <option>Archive Selected
# </select>

Now assuming scripting is more or less required for applications this can be
perfectly backwards compatible. Perhaps put some additional container element
around it and make <select> optional for fallback (same as with 
<datalist>) and
you have some kind of solution.

Cheers,

Anne


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