- From: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:07:59 -0700
- To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
You confuse interoperating data models with interoperating at the API level. The only way things like CSS work is if data models are being shared across browsers not just whether browsers can recognize the CSS syntax. The main problem with interoperability with both the XML and HTML DOMs is that the core definitions are so lacking in functionality that various parties (both open source and proprietary software vendors) have seen fit to embrace and extend them ( I believe your XOM is an example of this). ________________________________ From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] Sent: Wed 10/22/2003 5:48 PM To: Dare Obasanjo; Tim Bray; www-tag@w3.org Subject: RE: Action item on syntax-based interoperability At 3:59 PM -0700 10/22/03, Dare Obasanjo wrote: >So JavaScript and DHTML is not an interoperable part of the Web? Of course it it's not, as anybody who uses anything other than Internet Explorer on Windows knows all too well. It isn't even close to being an interoperable part of the Web. The sites that use syntax work. The sites that use DOM and JavaScript don't. > Is >Flash also not part of the Web? Ditto, though Flash is marginally more interoperable across platforms than JavaScript and DHTML. That probably has something to do with Flash not being designed by Microsoft. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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