- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:43:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Ric Hardacre wrote: > > Essentially the proposal is for a static DOM object which has read only > settings exposed to javascript (ultimately one day sendable via HTTP to > the web server to superceed UserAgent sniffing), the browser would be > left with the task of presenting the various options to the user > (global, per domain, etc.). Javascript has allowed web sites and > applications increased levels of functionality but at the same time > allowed for more possibilities of special effects and multimedia, these > are two seperate sides of the javascript coin and it would be useful to > have the former without being required to witness the latter. I encourage you to approach some browser vendors and see if they are interested in implementing this idea. That is one of the steps towards standardisation: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_the_spec.3F In general I would expect this idea to be specified independently; it doesn't need to be part of HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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