- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:08:08 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Doug Schepers <doug.schepers@vectoreal.com>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Doug Schepers wrote: > > "XBL cannot be used to give a document new semantics. The meaning of a > document is not changed by any bindings that are associated with it, > only its presentation and interactive behavior." > > It's not clear why this statement is included, what it means It means that if I bind something to: <p>This is an example paragraph.</p> ...it doesn't stop being a paragraph. > or that it's provably accurate. It is a statement of fact: since there is no feature in XBL that changes semantics, it is impossible for XBL to change semantics. > Please remove it. Why? It is very important that this point be made, IMHO. I, in fact, was considering making a much bigger deal out of it, maybe with its own section. > The word "semantic" is used several times with (as far as I can tell) at > least 2 different meanings, but is not defined. If you must use this > term, please define it for the purposes of this document and stick to > that definition. Defined. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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