- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:29:58 +0200
- To: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:17:48 +0200, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote: > / "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> was heard to say: > | (I tried numerous times together with Boris Zbarsky to get > | the XML Core WG to do something saner with XLink, but it didn't meet > | their requirements document or something silly like that.) > > Perhaps it was silly of the XML Core WG to imagine that there was > value in correcting a couple of small, simple, discrete, bugs in XLink > without reopening the entire specification to redesign. I'm probably > most directly responsible for that silly course of action, but > hopefully I've learned something from the exercise. > > I encourage you and Boris to draft a charter for a new XLink WG to > correct the errors that you see. I've given up on XLink, for what it's worth. I hope SVG introduces an href="" attribute in due course and defines some fallback processing for x:href with x being in the XLink namespace. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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