- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:25:50 -0400
- To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Cc: "WWW-Tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Bray wrote: in response to: > > > > I think I agree. But to me the interesting question is *why* XLink has > > gotten such a tepid (to hostile) reception outside the W3C itself. Why the > > only browser vendor with any market share didn't implement XLink is a > > question that in principle a number of people in Redmond WA could answer for > > us ... I don't suppose anyone wants to take a shot at it, eh? :-) > > I think Microsoft, like every technology vendor, is busy and short of > staff. Right at the moment there's not much market advantage for > microsoft to pour heavy amounts of investment and creativity into > enhancing the web browser, a product which brings no revenue and wins no > market share. -Tim Take a look at: http://www.rddl.org/rddl.htc which was at one point defined as an IE 'behavior' handler in the RDDL spec. It implements _simple_ XLink behavior ... click on it and you go there... On the other hand that isn't standard behavior for XHTML, so I suppose that if MS had implemented that themselves, we'd be jumping all over them for not being standards compliant ... Jonathan
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