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

[Matthew Raymond]

Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>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>
> 
> 
> That's an interesting idea, and kind of fits with the existing abuse of
> the first option as a label, rather than an actual option, as in:
> 
> <select>
>    <option>Please Select
>    <option>foo
> </select>

   First, I don't like the idea of abuse of legacy markup any more than
I like abuse of current markup. Second, <option> already has a |label|
attribute.

>>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.
> 
> Do you mean like this:
> 
> <cmd>
>    <option>foo
>    <option>bar
> </cmd>
> 
> would be the same as:
> 
> <cmd>
>    <select>
>      <option>foo
>      <option>bar
>    </select>
>    <button/>
> </cmd>
> 
> Since the first would only be supported by new UAs with no good
> fallback, the button would be completely unnecessary.

   So we've completely reinvented <menu><select/></menu>, only using
<cmd> as the parent instead. Why not just return to using
<menu><select/></menu> then?

| <menu>
|    <select>
|      <option>foo
|      <option>bar
|    </select>
|    <button/>
| </menu>