- From: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:07:16 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: >On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Daniel Glazman wrote: > > >>So I did it. It's still experimental, and all issues are not resolved, >>in particular wrt accessibility, but I am glad to offer a simple way of >>using Overlays in HTML 4, working fine in Internet Explorer and >>Gecko-based browsers. It's reported that Opera chokes on it, but with >>the excellent work Håkon's team is doing on Opera these days, I'm sure >>it can be fixed on our side. >> >>http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2004/08/30/529-end-of-teasing >> >> > >Looks like a variant on XBL. :-) > > > XBL requires namespace (therefore XML capable) UA's to work, where-as this one merely needs JS and the all-possible extension mechanism allowed with <link ...> As well this does not bring with it the complications in XBL, such as DOM methods, etc. From my understanding its meant as a quick and easy addition to HTML, rather than a largely superior feature-rich extension to (as currently stands) SVG. ~Justin Wood (Callek)
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