- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:19:49 +0900
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, www-tag@w3.org, liam@w3.org
Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, 2010-03-08 11:32 +0100: > On Mar 3, 2010, at 21:19 , Dan Connolly wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 13:15 +0000, Robin Berjon wrote: > > [...] > >> So, is there any reason why we can't just dub XBL2 as HTML5's > >> extensibility mechanism and declare victory? > > > > Is there a critical mass of support? Are implementors > > happy to do their part in deploying it? > > It's hard to tell. Whenever I speak with implementers it's > always on their TODO list, but somehow it never seems to reach > maturity. That seems like an accurate assessment to me also. Other work seems to get higher priority, and plans for XBL2 implementation get pushed down the stack. > There certainly was a lot of support while the WebAPI > WG was working on the draft. I won't presume to say why it is > being delayed though — that might something to ask them within > the HTML5 context. I think the biggest reasons are that XBL2 is relatively large piece of work to implement, and that there is a lot of other stuff in HTML5 and WebApps --as well as from CSS and SVG specs -- that browser projects have their potential XBL2 implementors working on. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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