- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:47:29 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > Jim Ley wrote: >>> 1) How likely is it that a UA that supports WebForms 2 but not DOM >>> will emerge? >> >> I think it's unlikely, but it's possible. > > No, it's not. WF2 incorporates by reference DOM2 HTML and DOM3 Core, > among others. You can't implement a WF2 UA without support for them: > > "This specification includes by reference [...]" >From the same section: | Implementations that do not support scripting (or which have their | scripting features disabled) are exempt from supporting the events and | DOM interfaces mentioned in this specification. Other aspects of this | specification that are defined in terms of an events model must still | act as if events were supported. That was actually added on the request of a UA implementor who, I believe, is working on a script-less Web browser. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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