[menu] [openable] allow author choice of opening a submenu inline or as a popup

[scottaohara]

We are likely all familiar with the use case for submenu popups being invoked on hover/focus or click of a menu's menuitem.

I've also seen use cases where authors have created "submenus" which are more like expand/collapse groups within a menu list.

I mention this because it could be another use case for the proposed openable attribute, and could allow for something like:

<menulist>
  ...
  <menuitem command=toggle commandfor=g>whatever</menuitem>
  <fieldset openable id=g>
    <menuitem>A</menuitem>
    <menuitem>B</menuitem>
    <menuitem>C</menuitem>
  </fieldset>
  ...
</menulist>

this could allow for an expand/collapse state on the menuitem with the command=toggle. it would not invoke it as a popover. ideally, this could allow for an automatic naming mechanism for the fieldset (allowing it to be exposed as a role=group with accName "whatever"). this automatic naming helping to make sure that the group start/end points were defined - and if someone wanted to give the fieldset a more specific name when the set was in the expanded state, they could use the legend element to do so. (or whatever the elements end up being for grouping/naming said group for menuitems)

cc @lukewarlow

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any discussion on this issue for a while, so we're marking it as stale. If you choose to kick off the discussion again, we'll remove the 'stale' label.