I find myself asking HTML questions in the REST mailing list, which is
probably not terribly appropriate. But I'm discovering my HTML
knowledge is not exactly standards-compliant, in large part because my
past HTML work has been fairly static.
I'm also slightly more constrained than a lot of REST programmers, with
my self-imposed restrictions of "usable by dumb browser," which means
not using JavaScript to "cheat" (until later).
So I'm faced with things like using forms instead of links (because the
browser can't do a POST/PUT/DELETE with a link), which means sometimes
figuring out how to put a "naked" submit button out there, and (here's
the hard part) fit it into the layout of a page. So far as I can tell,
forms are unavoidably block-level critters, which means they stubbornly
want to be on a line by themselves. This means using float:left to get
a row of them and (as can currently be seen in the mailbox mark
(un)read buttons) sometimes they still won't properly stay on the
baseline.
As I run across workarounds, or figure them out myself, I'll put them
here. Also, though I haven't gotten Wirebird in a repository yet, it's
open source (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, though I'll
probably also GPL and Artistic it as well) so you can swipe any bits of
HTML, CSS, or JS that you find handy (that isn't otherwise noted in the
comments as belonging to someone else, at least).
