[whatwg] Proposal: Allow block content inside label element

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp
<nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 01:27 +0100 schrieb Kristof Zelechovski:
>> What is the equivalent of the LABEL control under Microsoft Windows?
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms743463.aspx

wow. a great example of buggy documentation.

it claims to talk about a label "Themes", when it in fact means a
label "Theme:". I've sent feedback to Microsoft, hopefully they will
fix their documentation.

> (Under 9000 seconds in your favorite search engine.)

under 2hrs 30mins? yes, that's about right.

traditionally what we think of a "label" today was implemented by
using something called "static" in windows resources.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997560.aspx

And the time required to find documentation on static controls was
something on the order of 10mins and it took about 6 searches.

the general list of controls for win32 and not some higher level
toolkit is probably this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa152962.aspx

I'm having a hard time deciding if people really understand when
statics are used.

if you look at a file properties dialog and select the "Summary" tab
(this may require the volume be NTFS) then you should find (at least
on wXPsp2) that clicking _Title:, _Subject:, A_uthor:, or any of the
others will *not* focus the associated text area.

OTOH, pressing alt-t will focus Title:'s associated input field and
similarly for the other elements.