Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
> On 22/09/2014 16:15 , Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Although DOM and XMLHttpRequest have a two-way dependency with
>> HTML, effectively making them just another page that happens to be
>> maintained by someone else.
>
> I don't think that two-way dependencies are an issue. It's actually a fairly
> expected feature of systems of any complexity.

Ask the Blink team. A two-way dependency between modules makes it
effectively the same module as you cannot update one without the
other.

Think about it, if you imported Fetch as a module. Would you want that
to drag in XML, HTML, and DOM as well? At that point you failed to
modularize.


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Received on Monday, 22 September 2014 14:31:52 UTC