Linux Future

These ideas are outcome of my experience in developing my project RichStyle.

A Unified Label Attribute

Think of using label="" as a unified naming attribute; as an alternative to all naming tags and attribute:

<caption> , <label>, <legend>, alt="", for="", title="", summary="".

Tile text (the mouseover-text) could be displayed using a CSS rule like this:

{ title: attr(label) | attr(accesskey) | attr(label) attr(accesskey) | none }

The standard way for label presentation is to use :before and :after pseudo elements.

Command Representation

<command> should have an href="" attribute (link attribute) as an optional attribute, since a command could be simply a link.

icon="" attribute should be deprecated in favor of CSS icon attribute, which , in turn, should have an additional value called glyph(), e.g.:

command.go_up {icon: glyph(↑)}

And just like <input>, command should accept text as a type beside “command”, “checkbox”, and “radio”:

<command type="text">

Think of “search” and “zoom” fields in a toolbar.

Time Representation

Time, as a tag, should be used as a part of a context in an article or so on, the purpose here is to give the developer enough flexibility in time presentation (time-zone, time format) using CSS.

For articles’ time-stamp, and any other embedded content like
audio, video, or image, there should be two attributes: published, and
modified (last-modification date).

time,
article:time {
	time-format: dd-mm-yyyy;
	time-zone: +5;
}

A “Window” Tag

Unlike Window object used in JavaScript, such a tag might be easily maintained and customized using CSS like this:

window {
	position: fixed;
	left: 50%;
	top: 50%;
	buttons: close || maximize || minimize;
}

Standardizing jQuery

jQuery is the most popular alternative to JavaScript, it’s a powerful “meta-language” tries to circumvent the raw-javascript limitations. I think this language should be standardized.

Isolating events from the the HTML code the way CSS does regarding presentation attributes should be enough reason for W3C to adopt it.