On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:49:07 +0100, Ian Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
On 3 Nov 2009, at 6:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
Yesterday the WebApps WG discussed the fate of the views concept and we
decided that it was not worth keeping the theoretical concept around
because in practice a lot of the APIs designed are not taking it into
account and implementations are not interested in implementing support
for it (or are in the process of removing the limited support they
have). The interfaces would of course still be supported but you would
always get the same global object and document, regardless of the media
the document is being used in.
The idea is that the CSSOM View Module will obsolete DOM2 Views in due
course, but we thought it would make sense to alert potential
implementors that they should not be spending time on implementing the
views concept of DOM2 Views by adding a note to the recommendation much
like the CSS WG has done with CSS 2.0. We were wondering what the
process for adding such a note might be.
Please send a request to my attention, cc webreq, with the text you
would like to appear in the document.
Thanks for letting me know,
In the intervening years this changed a little (my apologies for getting
back to you so late). I think the note could read:
"The ideas described in this document are abandoned as they have not seen
sufficient adoption. The 'document' and 'defaultView' attributes still
exist and are now defined by HTML5."
Ian, do you think we should maybe have such a note for DOM Level 3 Core as
well given that implementors should really look at DOM Core instead?
Cheers,
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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
