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Message from discussion Request for XBL2 examples

Ian Hickson

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More options Oct 5 2006, 5:13 pm

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From: Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch>

Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:13:52 +0000 (UTC)

Local: Thurs, Oct 5 2006 5:13 pm

Subject: Re: Request for XBL2 examples

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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Sean Hogan wrote:

> I'd like to see more examples of solutions that XBL2 provides for common
> UI patterns.

I've added some examples that you suggested.

> e.g.
> 1. show/hide button. The button should not be part of the html source
> code for the page (should be added by XBL)

The <details> example does this:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/#simple-shadow-example

> nor should it necessarily be part of the tree that it will be
> hiding/showing (rather it should be anchored to some uniquely
> identifiable part of the page).

I don't really understand what you're asking for here. Could you give an
example of what you mean by "anchored" and "part of the page"? An example
of a page with this effect (though of course not using XBL) would be
really useful.

> 2. switch and tabbox

Not sure what you mean by "switch", but I added a tabbox example to the
xblSetInsertionPoint section.

> 3. document-map

Not sure what you mean by this.

> 4. user-selectable form-layout, e.g.
> - vanilla html form
> - vanilla html form + pop-up help boxes
> - wizard mode

Added a couple of examples for this in the HTML Forms section.

> 5. pop-up footnotes. Backwards compatible source code:
> <a href="#footnote1">[#1]</a> ... <a id="footnote1">Footnote 1</a>

Hm, tough one. I mean, you could do that one with XBL, but it would be
pretty ugly -- you'd basically just do it by a bunch of JavaScript,
without really using the XBL features at all.

Thanks for your feedback,
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