[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 47256] Adding C api for <select> popups

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Wed Oct 6 22:01:46 PDT 2010


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47256





--- Comment #13 from Sam Weinig <sam at webkit.org>  2010-10-06 22:01:45 PST ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> I’m not sure this is the right direction. We should not land anything here until we hear from Sam Weinig, Anders Carlsson, and Maciej Stachowiak. Do we really need API for this?
> 
> The term “combo box” is a Windows-specific one that I don’t see at all in HTML specifications and doesn’t make sense to me for a cross-platform API. I’d prefer that we not include this phrase in our function names.

This is definitely seems like the wrong direction to go.  Much like the reset of the UI elements in a web page, the <select> element should be handled by the engine, not the embedder.  Can you explain a bit more why you think this should not just be implemented in WebKit itself?

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