- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 10:59:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>, www-svg@w3.org
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > > > XBL could probably be used, eventually, together with XHTML and CSS > > > and some basic DOM methods on smaller devices. If such a device > > > already has CSS support to style the markup, it would be redundant > > > to have a complete XPath specification just for XBL. > > > > Yes, but the problem works both ways (which is why it hasn't been > > resolved): if the device already has XPath it would be redundant to > > have it implement the complete CSS 3 Selectors just for XBL. > > I'm not 100% sure, but downgrading from XPath to CSS3 Selectors is > probably easier. Except for cases like 'a:link', 'a:visited', but I'm > not sure if those are necessary. Of course, there are good arguments for saying that the fact that Selectors can do these dynamic things while XPath cannot is a good argument for using Selectors in such a dynamic environment as XBL. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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