Re: Structural GUI language for SVG?

On Monday, September 27, 2004, 4:50:11 PM, Ian wrote:


IH> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
>> 
>> What's becoming clear to me is that SVG is missing an agreed standard
>> for describing GUI structure such things as 'button' 'breadcrumb' 
>> 'navigation' 'style-control' 'illustration' could others add to this 
>> list? and comment?

IH> IMHO that's the domain of a semantic language like XHTML (which could,
IH> through XBL, be implemented using SVG) rather than the domain of SVG
IH> itself. SVG is, after all, merely a vector graphics language.

And XHTML is merely a text language. It doesn't have breadcrumbs or
illustrations either.

But I think we agree that this is the responsibility of a higher
semantic layer, not of a rendering layer.



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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
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