Re: [XBL] Loading External Resources

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Cyril Concolato wrote:
> 
> In Section 3.1, "Loading External Resources", the specification says:
> 
> "Such resource sharing is limited to resources loaded by a document, its 
> binding documents, its scripts, and its style sheets."
> 
> Make this sentence a normative statement

Done.


> The sentence from the XBL specification "Nested documents and images do 
> not share resources with each other or with their container document." 
> is in conflict with the notion of primary document in SVG see 
> "Externally referenced documents" 
> [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/linking.html#externalReferences] This 
> means that an SVG player would have to behave differently if it is also 
> XBL-compliant.

As far as I can tell, the statement in the XBL spec is the same as in the 
SVG spec. But in any case, the XBL spec's negative statement is not 
normative, it's just descriptive (and a consequence of the previous 
statement, which, as requested above, is now normative).


> The XBL specification should not impose constraints on how 
> documents/resources used by other non-XBL documents should be handled.  
> The example with 'iframe' seems contradictory with the general rule. Is 
> this an exception? What are the other exceptions? What about 
> <xhtml:object> elements in CDF cases ?

I don't understand why the <iframe> example looks like an exception. It 
isn't intended to look like one.

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