- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:01:51 +0200
- To: Dean Jackson <dino@w3.org>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Sep 12, 2006, at 13:07, Dean Jackson wrote:
> The XBL 2.0 that is currently in last call broke compatibility
> with sXBL in its first draft - it wasn't something that happened
> over time. Now that XBL 2.0 is a more mature specification than
> sXBL it will be interesting to see what path sXBL takes if it is
> published again. I don't think the world wants two binding
> specifications, but there might be some things in XBL 2.0 that
> make it unacceptable for standalone SVG implementations (for
> example).
I think the biggest issue that people might see is the fact that XBL
relies on CSS Selectors, whereas sXBL had the "Apple Consensus" which
consisted in using CSS or XPath depending on which made most sense
for the usage context.
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Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:02:09 UTC