- From: Steven J. DeRose <Steven_DeRose@Brown.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:07:19 -0400
- To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
At 5:20 AM -0400 6/8/01, TOa2671644@aol.com wrote: >Hi > >The site at w3.org (see below) shows only one browser has implemented >extended XLINKS. I do not understand the wide and excited coverage of XLINK >if almost no one has produced a browser to use it. Compare to most other W3C specs -- few were implemented in browsers at this stage. Many implementors wait until the spec is done so they don't have to re-work; others won't announce early since things may change and they can get a PR black eye for not being entirely conformant. I know of various non-browser projects that are using and implementing XLink for their own systems; there will surely be many more as time goes on, especially as users begin to see the power that comes from the whole notion of out-of-line linking, which is not available via any other Web-related standard. Also, browsers are not necessarily the best place to insert an XLink implementation; many (not all) reasonable architectures would put it on the server side. Depends on what you want to do with it. -- Steve DeRose
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