- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:22:54 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > > > > > Right, what rendering language does this XBL have that gives us this > > > complete control over how things look? > > > > CSS is quite capable of doing most widget looks > > I'm not interested in widget looks - I'm interested in a date control > being 3 fields, since that is what users understand - can CSS do this? XBL and CSS can do this, yes. That is one of the main use cases for XBL. > > > Why would we use the rather hobbled to be backwards compatible WF2 > > > proposals in an XBL environment? > > > > "XBL environment"? XBL, like CSS, is just part of the presentation layer > > on top of HTML, WF2, etc. > > Yep, but it's a presentation layer, and you can gladly present XForms > or rich semantics controls in such an environment, no need to hobble > yourself with the rather limited semantics of HTML and WF2. I haven't the foggiest clue what you are trying to say here. > > Yeah, that level of detail is the domain of the Web Controls 1.0 spec. > > So WF2 is even less likely to be used until this Web Controls 1.0 > spec. exists, with these interdependencies, don't you think it might > be a good idea to get a decent draft? Yup. We're working as fast as we can here, but we're only human. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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