On Sep 12, 2006, at 13:07, Dean Jackson wrote:
The XBL 2.0 that is currently in last call broke compatibility with sXBL in its first draft - it wasn't something that happened over time. Now that XBL 2.0 is a more mature specification than sXBL it will be interesting to see what path sXBL takes if it is published again. I don't think the world wants two binding specifications, but there might be some things in XBL 2.0 that make it unacceptable for standalone SVG implementations (for example).
I think the biggest issue that people might see is the fact that XBL relies on CSS Selectors, whereas sXBL had the "Apple Consensus" which consisted in using CSS or XPath depending on which made most sense for the usage context.
-- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
