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Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

From: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:49:09 -0800
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=HKkJS58w7fa=pojMd_0KWNriYGxteykR=hHg2@mail.gmail.com>
To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "ext Klotz, Leigh" <Leigh.Klotz@xerox.com>
Cc: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Cameron++

Also, this is a public wiki. If you feel like the use cases aren't
covering the problem domain to your satisfaction, please feel
encouraged to make additions.

:DG<

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
> Daniel Glazman:
>> Ok, so don't focus on the "proposal" word in my message. My comment
>> still stands : keeping XBL as an XML-based thing is good for user
>> agents that don't need to have knowledge of a given dialect, HTML
>> for instance.
>
> We should think of XBL as being a DOM-based thing, rather than an XML-
> based thing.  Then we can have HTML syntax for the cases where
> everything is within a text/html document, and XML syntax for the cases
> like the ones I brought up, where you might be purely within an SVG
> document.
>
> --
> Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
>
Received on Thursday, 10 March 2011 21:49:45 UTC

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