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

[Nate H.]

Not too ugly, just a little bit ugly. Would this be able to handle
menus within menus? I'm guessing nesting a <select> within another
<select> will break current UAs.

N


>    <form action="redirect.cgi">
>     <menu type="commands">
>      <menu label="Select site...">
>       <select name="goto"
>               onchange="if (this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)
>                           location = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
>        <option value="" selected="selected"> Select site: </option>
>        <option value="http://www.apple.com/"> Apple </option>
>        <option value="http://www.mozilla.org/"> Mozilla </option>
>        <option value="http://www.opera.com/"> Opera </option>
>       </select>
>       <span><input type="submit" value="Go"></span>
>      </menu>
>     </menu>
>    </form>
>
> The outer menu makes the toolbar, the inner menu is a drop-down button on
> that toolbar. (Well, semantically it's just saying that there's a set of
> commands, consisting of a nested set of commands, which allows things like
> the Ribbon effect for expanding and/or contracting the UI on the fly.)
>
> The <span></span> hides the <input> from the <menu>. The value="" hides
> that <option> from the menu.
>
> Is this too ugly?
>
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