>>>>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:23:35 +0200, Frank Caputo <frank_at_frankcaputo.de> said:
PW> I do like the idea of not needing to revisit renderers to support
PW> passthough attributes, and it maps well with the information Ed sent
PW> earlier [1]. Having said that, there might be some complexities
PW> with existing code. For example, looking at PrimeFaces, in
PW> org.primefaces.component.inputtext.InputTextRenderer I noticed that
PW> no component is passed to startElement. With Mojarra, the
PW> com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer calls startElement
PW> several times with the same component (once for "select" and again
PW> for "option" and "optiongroup"). Not much can be done if the
PW> component is not passed, but the menu case is particularly
PW> interesting because I would expect passthough attributes and
PW> overrides to apply to "select" but not "option" or
PW> "optiongroup".
PW> I think the renderer should pass the correct child (UISelectItem(s))
FC> to the ResponseWriter. Having this, we could embed
FC> f:passThroughAttributes inside the f:selectItem(s).
FC> Unfortunately there is no corresponding component for
FC> SelectItemGroup, so we can't passthrough attributes to the
FC> optiongroup tag.
FC> Should we spec this behavior and add a component for SelectItemGroup?
Frank, can you please write some text that I can use as the starting
point for the VDLDoc for whatever new tag(s) you think we need?
Ed
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