- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:56:24 +1200
- To: "Public SVG list" <www-svg@w3.org>, Hixie <ian@hixie.ch>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
Ian, Anne, you both commented on SVG using an extended form of the functionality specified in XML events rather than simply implementing the specification. The issue turns on the fact that XML Events only allows targets etc within a single document, as specified by an IDREF, while the SVG group had hoped to allow richer application development by allowing the attributes to specify an IRI, without requiring implementation of two redundant (because of small but important incompatibilities) version of XML event markup. The principle behind this is clearly laid out in the Architecture of the World Wide Web [1]. Following discussion with the XML Events specification's creators and others, the conclusion was that the approach taken maximised compatibility with both the current specification, the principles of the Architecture of the WWW, and what we could reasonably expect to see in the future. Since, in practice, the group planned to limit the current scope of event description to within a document to simplify implmentation for SVG 1.2 tiny, and since there is no barrier to implementing a future enhanced version of XML events in SVG-capable user agents, the group has decided to compromise the goal of taking best advantage of the Web now in order to simplify compatibility with the existing XML events specification, and will therefore use the existing XML events specification as it is. We believe this is exactly what you have requested in your comments. In order to provide the ability to use the Web at large, we will therefore rely on people having to implement a successor XML Events specification as well, if or when that becomes available. We hope that this response satisfies you - if not, please let us know within two weeks. Thanks!!! [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#p265 ( "Good Practice: A specification SHOULD allow Web-wide linking, not just internal document linking." ) for the SVG Working Group, cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile chaals@opera.com hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk Peek into the kitchen: http://snapshot.opera.com/
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