[whatwg] Proposal: Allow block content inside label element

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Oct 29 13:41:06 PDT 2008


On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
>
> We have a different opinion on what "corresponds" means.  A label in HTML is
> detached, both logically and graphically, while a TITLE in Windows GUI is
> attached.  You can translate from Windows GUI to HTML - but this direction
> is not interesting; you cannot translate from HTML to Windows GUI, at least
> not in all cases, without reorganizing content.  So you cannot implement
> support for HTML label in terms of Windows TITLE.

Sure, nobody said there was a 1:1 mapping from HTML to Win32. We're just 
talking about UI concepts, the actual implementation details at the API 
level are completely irrelevant to the discussion.

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