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

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:31:05 +0600, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au>
> wrote:
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> > > I'm guessing nesting a <select> within another <select> will break current
> > > UAs.
> > 
> > Sub-menus like that will be handled with nested <optgroup> elements.
> 
> Are current browsers ready for nested <optgroup>?

As I recall, when we decided to include it Web Forms 2, browsers failed 
relatively gracefully in the face of <optgroup>. There weren't any crashes 
or anything, at least.

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