- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:41:17 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Chris Lilley wrote: > > Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > The belief asserted in this statement: > > > > # It is believed that this specification is in accordance with the Web > > # Architecture principles as described in Web Architecture [AWWW]. > > > > ...is false. AWWW requires that specifications be orthogonal, but the > > presence of incompatible versions of XML Events, DOM Core, and SMIL > > features, as well as the introduction of wholly redundant features such as > > <textArea>, clearly shows that SVG 1.2 does not fulfill this requirement. > > > > Please remove this false assertion. > > Thanks for your comment. Other people have given us more specific > feedback about incompatibilities with other specs, and we have resolved > them. Unless you have removed the profiling of DOM Core, stopped using a subset of SMIL features, and removed all the wholly redundant features such as <textArea>, my opinion is still that the aforementioned requirement is not fulfilled. > The WG thus believes that the statement is correct, and as one of the > authors of that specification I concur. Please mark my disagreement clearly in your disposition of comments. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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