Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-11 Thread Robin Berjon
On Mar 10, 2011, at 22:51 , Daniel Glazman wrote: > Le 10/03/11 16:46, Cameron McCormack a écrit : >> We should think of XBL as being a DOM-based thing, rather than an XML- >> based thing. Then we can have HTML syntax for the cases where >> everything is within a text/html document, and XML syntax

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Leigh L Klotz Jr
On 03/10/2011 02:56 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: serialization, but it's easy to imagine it also having an XML serialization for use directly in SVG or similar. ~TJ Certainly, we'd prefer to have an XML representation of the component language for use with XForms for similar reasons. XForms is

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > Le 10/03/11 16:55, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit : >> The HTML serialization of an ordinary web page isn't usable in a user >> agent having no knowledge of HTML, either.  Why is this different? > > Do you have different serializations for another h

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Glazman
Le 10/03/11 16:55, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit : The HTML serialization of an ordinary web page isn't usable in a user agent having no knowledge of HTML, either. Why is this different? Do you have different serializations for another helper technology called CSS ? No. Why should it be different he

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > Le 10/03/11 16:46, Cameron McCormack a écrit : > >> We should think of XBL as being a DOM-based thing, rather than an XML- >> based thing.  Then we can have HTML syntax for the cases where >> everything is within a text/html document, and XM

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Glazman
Le 10/03/11 16:46, Cameron McCormack a écrit : We should think of XBL as being a DOM-based thing, rather than an XML- based thing. Then we can have HTML syntax for the cases where everything is within a text/html document, and XML syntax for the cases like the ones I brought up, where you might

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Cameron++ Also, this is a public wiki. If you feel like the use cases aren't covering the problem domain to your satisfaction, please feel encouraged to make additions. :DG< On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > Daniel Glazman: >> Ok, so don't focus on the "proposal" word

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Cameron McCormack
Daniel Glazman: > Ok, so don't focus on the "proposal" word in my message. My comment > still stands : keeping XBL as an XML-based thing is good for user > agents that don't need to have knowledge of a given dialect, HTML > for instance. We should think of XBL as being a DOM-based thing, rather th

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Glazman
Le 10/03/11 16:37, Dimitri Glazkov a écrit : That's just use cases. I used the latest draft of XBL2 for syntax -- might as well be pseudocode at this point. Ok, so don't focus on the "proposal" word in my message. My comment still stands : keeping XBL as an XML-based thing is good for user age

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
That's just use cases. I used the latest draft of XBL2 for syntax -- might as well be pseudocode at this point. :DG< On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > Le 10/03/11 16:26, Dimitri Glazkov a écrit : >> >> Ok, this is interesting. Which proposal by Google is ghost of Daniel >>

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Glazman
Le 10/03/11 16:26, Dimitri Glazkov a écrit : Ok, this is interesting. Which proposal by Google is ghost of Daniel referring to? I don't think there is one yet? This kind of things for instance? http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Component_Model_Use_Cases#Reacting_to_bound_element_state_change

Fwd: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Now from the right address. I blame Art for using my @google.com address :P -- Forwarded message -- From: Dimitri Glazkov Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Moving XBL et al. forward To: Arthur Barstow Cc: public-webapps , Daniel Glazman , Ian Hickson , "ext

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Ok, this is interesting. Which proposal by Google is ghost of Daniel referring to? I don't think there is one yet? :DG< On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > All - Daniel Glazman responded to this subject on a Member-only list and he > gave me permission to fwd his response to

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Arthur Barstow
All - Daniel Glazman responded to this subject on a Member-only list and he gave me permission to fwd his response to this list: [[ My personal take about it is that the HTML-based component model proposed by Google is not desirable. It's an HTML-browser centric solution that will require from n

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-10 Thread Leigh L Klotz Jr
Here's some use cases and examples of how a subset of XBL2 is used to define components in XForms. We'd like to be able to support this type of work. We expect it would be done as part of a JavaScript or server-side process, and so we just need the language to be able to express the namespaced

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Cameron McCormack
Cameron McCormack: > >   > >     > >   Tab Atkins Jr.: > > > Or that. :) I have the feeling that we don’t have agreed upon rules on how authors are allowed to extend the platform. Whatever we deem is the “proper” way for them to do so would be how I’d like it to happen in SVG. -- Cameron

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
(off-list) On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: >   >     >   ~TJ

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Cameron McCormack
Arthur Barstow: > * Should the WG pursue Dimitri Glazkov's Component Model proposal > [Component]? If yes, who is willing to commit to work on that spec? I promised Dmitri some use cases from the SVG WG’s perspective, but haven’t managed to get to working on these yet. Whatever solution we have i

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 3/9/11 1:56 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: I do not think the XML-based version makes sense anymore. It's too complex and has always felt a bit awkward. A set of extensions to HTML or CSS would make more sense. I really quite liked the idea of using CSS and having some way of writing markup in C

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Leigh L Klotz Jr
Here's my best understanding of the ansers to these questions from the Forms WG perspective: We continue to cheer for the development of a component system for the HTML5 stack, as it will make things easier for end-user authors and for framework developers, whether they choose to express their

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Arthur Barstow wrote: > > * What is the latest implementation status of the XBL2 CR [XBL2-CR] and > Hixie's September 2010 version [XBL-ED] (previously referred to as > "XBL2-cutdown")? I'm not aware of any new developments on either front. > * Which members of WebApps wan

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:14:48 +0100, Arthur Barstow wrote: * Which members of WebApps want to continue with the XML-based version of XBL2 as codified in the XBL2 CR? If you are groupin this , what firm commitments can you make to push the spec along the REC track? Would you object to the Forms W

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > This email is written as the position of several Chrome engineers > working in this problem area at Google, though not Google's official > position. > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: >> * What is the latest implementa

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
This email is written as the position of several Chrome engineers working in this problem area at Google, though not Google's official position. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > * What is the latest implementation status of the XBL2 CR [XBL2-CR] and > Hixie's September 2010

Re: Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Olli Pettay
On 03/09/2011 04:14 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: Ian, Leigh, Dimitri, All, On March 11, the agenda of the so-called Hypertext Coordination Group [HCG] will include XBL [XBL] to continue related discussions they had during their Feb 11 call [Feb-11-Mins]. I wasn't present at that call but based on t

Moving XBL et al. forward

2011-03-09 Thread Arthur Barstow
Ian, Leigh, Dimitri, All, On March 11, the agenda of the so-called Hypertext Coordination Group [HCG] will include XBL [XBL] to continue related discussions they had during their Feb 11 call [Feb-11-Mins]. I wasn't present at that call but based on those meeting minutes and what Leigh said las