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Re: missing columns attribute in select element

From: Toby A Inkster <tobyink@goddamn.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:34:10 +0100
To: Simon Hürlimann <simon.huerlimann@access.unizh.ch>
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <20030716163410.GA28081@ophelia.goddamn.co.uk>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:18:34PM +0200, Simon Hürlimann wrote:
| Second, I'd realy like to see two things:
| - HTML should allow a textarea like column attribute to dropdown fields.

Development of HTML ceased in 1999. XHTML is the future.

| - CSS should have not only a character hight unit (em), but also a character 
| width one.

Off-topic on this list, but "em" is already a width unit: it is defined 
as the width of the letter "m". There is also "ex", defined as the 
height of the letter "x", although implemented in some browsers as 
0.5em.

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