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Re: [XBL] Abstract

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:34:43 +1100
To: public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <20070113043443.GE27720@arc.mcc.id.au> 

Cameron McCormack:
> > Abstract
> > 
> >   It can also be used to implement new DOM interfaces, and, in
> >   conjunction with other specifications, enables arbitrary tag sets to
> >   be implemented as widgets. For example, XBL could in theory be used to
> >   implement XForms.
> > 
> > Using “in theory” tends to imply that in practice, the opposite is 
> > true, or that this wouldn’t be done.  Is it actually possible to 
> > implement XForms with XBL?  If so, please reprhase the sentence to avoid 
> > making the reader wary of the suggestion.

Ian Hickson:
> Well, in theory it could. We haven't tested the theory yet. How would you 
> phrase it? The statement is exactly literally correct as far as I can 
> tell. No reading-between-the-lines required.

I see the abstract has been reworded now, so the problem doesn’t exist
any more.

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