- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:53:53 +0200
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-style@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: >>> In what way would it prevent exiting CR? >> >> Because it would require support for xml:id > > 'should' is not the same as 'must' Only when you have compelling reasons. >> and UAs might not have implemented that while having > implemented CSS 2.1. > > Which would prevent what, exactly? Are you really saying that (for > xml, remember, not for html or for xhtml 1.0/1.1) there are UAs that > implement 100% of CSS 2.1 and yet do not, or could not, implement > xml:id? Most UAs that exist today — Mozilla, Opera, Safari — are XML UAs with some knowledge of the XHTML namespace plus a tag soup parser. None of these three have support for xml:id at the moment. I know there were plans for Opera 8, but it didn't make it. For Mozilla there are also some unresolved issues that prevent developers from implementing it. Also, although there is a relation between xml:id and CSS that shouldn't really result in a "UA that implement CSS and XML should implement xml:id." Better would be to require XML UAs to implement xml:id and adopt xml:id inside the official XML recommendation. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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