- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:02:21 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Further to the recent discussion on the differnce between documents and applications, it seems that Mozilla and Opera teams of clubbed together to develop extensions to HTML and CSS designed to implement things like dialogue boxes natively, to enable those browsers to better support web applications. It also appears that Microsoft's Longhorn project has its own HTML extensions for web applications, so it looks as though they want something short of .NET thick client, but less kludgy than ASP.NET. For further details start at: Slashdot Mozilla, Opera Form Group to Develop Web App Specs <http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/07/107259> The discussion points fall basically into three categories: - it will die because it isn't implemented by Microsoft; - it's still a kludge on top of an inappropriate language; - it adds yet more complexity to something that was intended to be simple. I see no indication that either side has considered accessibility. Although some of the things could be considered abstract interfaces, some is clearly aimed at visual operation (e.g. I see no sign of popups being abstracted).
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