- From: Dean Jackson <dino@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:45:48 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <doug.schepers@vectoreal.com>, 'Mark Birbeck' <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>, public-appformats@w3.org
Hi Ian, On 05/08/2006, at 7:08 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > I have also asked various experts in the field, including > implementors of > major Web browser vendors and representatives of the Web Standards > Project. Their advice was almost unanimously to use Selectors > rather than > XPath. (In several cases, their actual reply was "what's XPath?".) Is there any way you could get them to provide their advice to this list? I'm not doubting your claim, but it would be better to get feedback directly rather than by proxy (I'm often not sure if you are speaking on behalf of Apple, Opera, Mozilla, Google or some combination of the above). I'd be especially interested in hearing the rationale of the people you consulted who wanted XPath support, and how important it is to them (could they wait for a future release, an extension, a new language?). You see, I asked God and his advice was "XPath rocks" :) BTW - I don't think anyone on this thread is suggesting to use XPath rather than Selectors, which seems to be the argument you're fighting here. And for the record, I'm one of the people who asked Ian to bring this specification to the W3C and negotiated with him the agreement to strongly resist changes. I'll be sticking to that deal.
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