- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:24:55 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2011-11-29 20:07, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> ... >> Since XPath and Selectors are 95% overlapping in functionality and >> 100% overlapping in goals and overall structure, I believe it is a bad >> idea to try and develop both for the web platform. Instead, we should >> ... > > The proposal wasn't to "develop" XPath as in "doing more work on the > expression language". > > What *was* proposed is to fix/standardize the API for XPath, which already > is part of the web platform. Speccing, implementing, and testing an API is also "developing", particularly when it appears there's a desire to spec, implement, and test a new, more convenient API that's currently proprietary to a few browsers. For the reasons stated in my email, I believe this effort to be a bad idea. ~TJ
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