- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: 08 May 2003 13:33:41 -0400
- To: robin.berjon@expway.fr
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 12:12, Robin Berjon wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > I was wondering if the DOM Working Group would consider splitting the DOM > > HTML features document.referrer, document.cookie, and document.domain out > > of the HTML-specific interface, and into a general "browser" interface > > that applies to all XML documents as well. (I understand that not all DOM > > implementations would want to support these features, which is why I am > > not suggesting they be made part of the DOM core.) > > > > There isn't really anything HTML-specific about these three attributes, > > and I think authors would benefit from being able to use them from other > > contexts, such as SVG, without having to cast their document object to an > > HTML object despite there being no HTML on the page. :-) > > Yes, that would indeed be great, especially as none of the alternative are any > good (casting, proprietary, reinventing the wheel). The splitting out would seem > to require minimal work and could be readily reused by other specs. I have no objection of doing so and we could certainly add it on our wishes list: http://www.w3.org/2001/10/23-DOMOpenList ... but that would require that the Working Group do produce work on a general "browser" interface, which we don't for the moment. Our current plans are to finish DOM Level 3 (which is really late on schedule) for the moment but, for the moment, we don't plan to produce more work after that. Philippe
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