- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:54:17 -0700
- To: mikeschinkel@gmail.com
- Cc: dsr@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Note that the XForms WG originally speculated on subsetting JavaScript, and for the reasons you mention decided to use XPath instead. Mike Schinkel writes: > > Dave Raggett wrote: > > The use of declarative representations allows the > > authoring tool to recover the original context when the > > editor next loads the document. If the application is > > largely defined in JavaScript, the editor won't be able > > to map that back to something simpler for the non-techie > > author. Authoring tools can make use of proprietary > > solutions for recording declarative info, but this locks > > the author into that tool. Open standards for declarative > > representations avoid that lock in, creating a level > > playing field. A simple expression language for HTML > > forms would be an important part of this. > > While I agree with that assertion... > > > I have yet to hear any substantive technical barriers and > > the implementation is straightforward as I have > > demonstrated. I really don't understand the reluctance of > > most people on this list to embrace an opportunity to > > make HTML authoring accessible to a much wider range of > > people. > > ...I'm concerned about where the arbitrary limits will be set and how the > design of a subset architecture might be forced to evolve. In my experience > everytime I see a group create a subset language it often grows to become a > bastardized version of the original because it wasn't originally architected > for extension and because needs for flexibility push the language to be more > than it was ever designed to be. > > I believe the scope of this issue is large enough it should be addressed by > its own working group with people who have programming language design > experience as opposed to just markup language design experience. In other > words, seperation of concerns should apply here. > > JMTCW, anyway. > > -- > -Mike Schinkel > http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ > http://www.welldesignedurls.org > http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us > > > > > > > -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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