- From: David A. Lee <dlee@calldei.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:41:53 -0500
- To: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>, "XProc Dev" <xproc-dev@w3.org>
--- Asketh Norman This is either an opportunity for someone to point out why it would be a really bad idea to add those dependencies or fair warning that the next release will have them ... or both. --- My oppinion is that adding these depancies and advanced features is an slippery slope. If you need advanced features like cookie processing etc then you should be running a specialized tool like "wget", which can be run from xproc as an external process step. Its a slippery slope because "whats next" ? caching ? JavaScript ? ActiveX controls ? AJAX ? Java applets ? Silverlight ? on and on ... My oppinion is to keep the core functionality simple and clean and let people use custom external tools for the fancy stuff. -David ----------------------------------------------------------- David A. Lee dlee@calldei.com http://www.calldei.com
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