- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:25:08 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Martin Kutschker wrote: > > Though Jim is a bit cynicical in some of his remarks I second that if > WF2 doesn't deal with the important aspects of styling it's > finalizations should be delayed until WC1 is finished or at least stable > to some degree. > > What good is a spec if many aspects are determined by other yet > unfinished specs? As a browser developer I'd wait for the CSS spec to > avoid wasting resources. And even if some browsers would have > implementaions web authors wouldn't adopt it because it lacks styling > possibilities. WF2 has the same lack of styling possibilities as HTML4. It doesn't seem to have stopped people from using HTML4. I agree that we want the ability to create custom widgets and to then style them and make them interact with accessibility APIs and so forth. But I don't buy the argument that until we have this, the markup language is useless. HTML4's widgets have never had this, and they are well used. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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