- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:04:19 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, fantasai wrote: > > The current repetition model adds four global attributes to every > element [...] Would it perhaps make more sense to create a <template> > element? That was my original design (when I was still at the drawing-on-paper- napkins stage). Doesn't work, because it wouldn't solve the most common use case, namely, repeating table rows. It's not compatible with the CSS table model, and it's not compatible with the HTML table model. The former could maybe be fixed by changing CSS, but the latter couldn't be changed since parsing of HTML tables is one of the most complicated parts of HTML parsers today. Note that XForms ended up with the same design, basically (attribute- based), for the same reason. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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