Re: XBL2 underspecified

aloha, ian!

mea culpa -- i didn't mean the XBL specification itself, i was 
referring to the XBL 2.0 Primer, but apparently i can't speak,
minute, listen to my screen reader, listen to the telecon and 
chew gum simultaneously -- next time, i'll forgo the gum...

as far as the primer is concerned, i don't have the cycles right
now, but i do need to contact lachy about providing verbiage for 
Chapter 5 (Enhancing user experience) and Chapter 6 (Re-purposing 
content to increase accessibility) as some of the work i'm involved
in vis à vis ARIA and Expert Handlers for providing a bridge between
specialized content and assistive technologies, seems to me to be 
pertinent with many cross-over points, but i was hanging fire on that 
front until i cleared my desk of (to me, at least,) a few more 
pressing/urgent issues...

i apologize for any misunderstanding; having reviewed the XBL2 
draft multiple times, i would very much like to contribute to the 
primer, if possible, as it will be an invaluable resource to those 
seeking to understand and implement XBL correctly, especially if 
the reader has no background in XBL or awareness of the issues 
which the primer will address in chapters 5 and 6

i hope this clarifies my own mis-minuted comments -- i will re-review
the XBL2 draft itself with an ear towards identifying any possible 
holes in the draft, which -- in my opinion, at least -- is quite well
specified, save for those isolated spots where the draft acknowledges 
that further and/or more suitable text is needed and will be added 
when it becomes available, such as the disclaimer in section 8.2.2. -- 
the only minor suggestion i have is that it would be helpful to indicate
if the draft is waiting for a description/definition from another 
forum/working group, or whether the details are being worked on within 
the public-appsformat forum...

gregory.

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
Sent: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:36:43 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: XBL2 underspecified

> Hi Gregory,
> 
> In a recent XHTML2 working group meeting [1], you minuted 
> yourself as saying "XBL draft dangersously underspecified". I 
> was wondering if you could elaborate on that. I very much would 
> like XBL2 [2] to be specified in detail, and any information 
> about holes you could provide me with would be very helpul for 
> achieving this goal.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/10/03-xhtml-minutes.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,
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