- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:51:50 +0100
Matthew Raymond wrote: > Jim Ley wrote: > > I might remind you that nothing is stopping anyone from creating a > pure script solution, and both the pure script and HTC efforts may even > cooperate and reuse each other's code. +1 >>> In the message, Dean specifies the following as problems: >>> 4) Memory leaks, which seems to be a problem with IE JScript in general. >>> 5) Crashes, which he says are far more likely in the testing phase. >> >> >> Yep, these sound pretty f'ing alarming for release quality >> web-applications ! > 5) HTCs don't randomly crash otherwise there would be no way i would advocate their use. crashes may occur when you are developing/testing HTCs. this can make them a pain to work with at times and means that you have to clear your cache periodically. but this is purely a development issue. >>> You've been given every opportunity to suggest markup that >>> gracefully degrades as opposed to "last ditch degradation", >> >> I've done that, so far it's being rejected primarily because it is not >> supportable by HTC's! > it was rejected because the <object> element does not reside in the DOM. furthermore, there would be no need to attach an HTC to an <object> as you can already define a custom interface for it. i still like the <object> idea though and there may be a way round the DOM problem... -dean
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