[whatwg] a few thoughts

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 21:24, Travis Miller wrote:
> New list member here. I'm excited to see the W3C moving toward  
> standardized support for web apps.

Welcome.

> 1. Slider form controls:

There's already <input type='range'>:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#range

> 2. Expandable/collapsible hierarchical trees: Every modern  
> operating system of which I'm aware supports this UI element  
> natively, so it would be easy for user agents to implement, and  
> they are very well-suited for representing many kinds of data  
> structures.

Does <datagrid> meet your needs?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#datagrid0

> 3. Tabbed content:

This was in the draft at some point but it was dropped. I'm not sure  
about the details of the reasoning why.

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Henri Sivonen
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