- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 08:36:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Antoine Quint <aq@fuchsia-design.com>
- Cc: Dean Jackson <dino@w3.org>, public-appformats@w3.org
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Antoine Quint wrote: > > Try not to read between the line and just read what I wrote in plain > english. I would like to be offered the flexibility to _also_ use XPath > selector and not _only_ CSS Selectors for matching nodes onto which > applying binding in XBL. Oh. Well, that would be bad language design. You don't provide redundant ways of doing the same thing, that just results in make-work and confuses authors. See Perl as a great example of this, or SVG as another. c.f. the KISS principle. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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