Re: [XBL] multiple template, handlers, implementation elements

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:40:08 +0100, Cyril Concolato
> > <cyril.concolato@enst.fr> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > section 4.1: "Otherwise, its first template element must be deeply
> > > cloned." Remove 'first'.
> > 
> > You are confusing authoring and user agent requirements. User agents have to
> > deal with multiple <template> elements. User agents have to deal with every
> > DOM structure you can think of in order to ensure interoperability. This is
> > one of the things that helps with that.
> 
> But why not say that such a <binding> is in error instead?

Forwards compatibility, mostly.

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