- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:05:13 -0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
"Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.61.0411040320050.26363@dhalsim.dreamhost.com... > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Doug Schepers wrote: >> It seems that you don't want people to use SVG for anything but >> graphics. I'm sorry, but it's a bit late for that. > > People use HTML for graphics and layout, and there is demand for even more > graphical things to be added to HTML, but you don't see the XHTML working > group adding more <font>-like elements to HTML. Are you saying it would be a bad idea to add more graphical elements to HTML? > I have nothing against SVG being used to present applications, so long as > the language sent over the wire is a standard UI language that can also be > implemented without SVG, e.g. for blind users using speech-based browsers. > As, for instance, XForms can. XForms isn't a UI language, it's an abstract model interaction language - it defines nothing about the user, SVG is the bridge between the abstract model of XForms and the rendering. Do you believe the current SVG cannot implement XForms? Jim.
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