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Re: DOM based API

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:58:17 -0400
Message-ID: <e9dffd640806061158o7b7e5d1era0b72c184c28f159@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
Cc: "Andrei Popescu" <andreip@google.com>, public-geolocation@w3.org 

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
> What are the advantages?

I hope my response to Anne demonstrated some of them.

BTW, I'd also add that I liken this approach to that of procfs[1], aka
"/proc" on Linux.  As Linux/Unix is very much file based, it seemed a
natural choice to expose OS and hardware information via files.  To
me, it seems just as natural a choice to expose Web-client-side
information via documents.

 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs

Mark.
Received on Friday, 6 June 2008 18:58:55 GMT

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