Re: HTML Extensibility Through Script

Hi Doug,


On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> This seems to have drifted off-topic rather quickly... To refocus,  
> I wasn't asking for a way to sniff browser strings, which is a  
> brittle way to determine the featureset of the UA.  I intended this  
> thread to discuss the possibility of conditional operators, either  
> through a script API or (preferably) via a declarative markup or  
> featurestring.
>
> SMIL has the <switch> element, which is used in SVG to good effect.  
> Maybe something akin to that would be useful in HTML.  It's a lot  
> more powerful than a simple fallback mechanism, and not much more  
> complex. If that isn't backwards-compatible enough, some simpler  
> variation on it might be.
>

Any thoughts on Thomas Boyer's suggestion?

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0589.html>

Is this related to what you're looking for?

Take care,
Rob

Received on Wednesday, 11 July 2007 06:44:36 UTC