- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:38:05 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html-xml@w3.org
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 05:21 -0800, Henri Sivonen wrote: [...] > If you were to check for native support of MusicXML in > application/xhtml+xml today, what would you check? It's hard enough to > check for MathML support. When we were designing namespaces in XML (a process that got truncated by an externally-imposed two-week deadline, unfortunately) I was naïvely hoping for a mechanism whereby a Web browser/UA ecountering a namespace it didn't support would go off and fetch code, rather as they do for plugins... The biggest spanner in the works here was that Java was the most likely candidate for the code... today JavaScript probably has enough traction, and it would for sure be nice to say, "darling browser, if you already have code to handle this, use it, otherwise fetch _this_ or use an equivalent cached copy" - e.g. then browsers could ship with a copy of the jQuery library and Web pages could supply a digital signature of the desired library version along with a link. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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