- From: Werner Donne' <wdonne@ibm.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 17:49:00 +0200
- To: dom <www-dom@w3.org>
Hi, I have the following remarks about the HTML specification: - Most interfaces in this specification are just enumerations of attributes. The Core specification already has a mechanism to treat SGML attributes and thus HTML attributes. I think that interfaces with hard coded versions of these are not necessary. The major disadvantage is that each time HTML changes this specification must change also. If only the standard attribute manipulation mechanism is offered it is likely no existing code will break. - Inheritance is heavily used in the Core specification. It could then also be applied in the following case. The operations getItem and getTags appear in both the HTMLFormElement and HTMLSelectElement interfaces. They could be put in a seperate interface from which the two others could be derived. With kind regards, -- Werner Donne' Re BVBA Leuvenselaan 172 B-3300 Tienen tel: (+32) 16 810203 fax: (+32) 16 820826 E-mail: wdonne@ibm.net
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