- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:30:46 +0200
- To: Eric Seidel <eseidel@apple.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Hi Eric, On Dec 28, 2005, at 22:45, Eric Seidel wrote: > I would like to echo other's comments, with regard to the uDOM. > Reading through it, the uDOM seems a particularly odd beast. It > seems that the SVG specification would be better served to adopt a > strict (compatible) sub-set of the DOM 3 specification through > normative reference, and only make additions to the DOM for SVG- > only attributes and elements. As it stands, the uDOM makes several > (in the eyes of a desktop browser vendor) duplicative (and therefor > unwelcome) additions the the DOM. Notably in the areas of text, > attribute and network communication handling. > > I would like to encourage the SVG working group to at least add a > section further explaining the need for the uDOM as it stands now > and why the goals of the uDOM (size?) could not have been > accomplished through the use of a strict-subset of DOM 3. > > Furthermore, I would suggest, that if it is the intention of the > SVG working group to continue requirement of a uDOM implementation, > that they consider breaking the uDOM out into it's own > specification, given that it makes generic extensions to DOM3 (like > "traits"), which should ideally be used by other future languages > in a CDF environment (such as HTML5/XHTML2.0/MathML). Several steps have been taken to address your concerns: - the DOM 3 parts are now used entirely by reference - we have attempted to clarify various parts of the introduction to better justify the need for the uDOM - we're listing a number of parts of the API to be replaced by the Web APIs WG's work as soon as possible (when and how depends on the exact timeline) Regarding sharing a generic style API with other languages, we are much in favour of doing that in as close a future as can be and discussion has started along those lines, but until it exists we need a solution. Thank you very much for your comments, please let us know shortly if this does not address your concerns, -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
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