Hi All,
In case you haven't followed this thread (started at [HEAD]), my
extremely short summary is:
1. Hixie, based on discussions with David Hyatt, Tab Atkins and perhaps
some others, created a new Editor's Draft (ED) of XBL2 [XBL-Sep-2010]
that defines the XBL language as part of HTML (rather than defining its
own namespace) and removes a number of XBL2 features "to lower the
initial implementation cost, so that we can get some traction, and then
we can add the features back in afterwards to get it back to where we
were before" (Hixie). (See [DIFFS] for a summary of the changes.)
2. The Forms community would like to see XBL2 - as defined in the 2007
CR [XBL2-CR] - continued, since Leigh noted XBL2 is "being used by
XForms implementators and XForms users
at the authoring level". (See [LEIGH] for details.)
Ideally, the W3C would only progress one Binding Language on the
Recommendation track. However, given the implementations by the Forms
community and some Browser vendors not implementing the XBL2 CR because
of the reasons Hixie mentioned, a single spec may not be able to satisfy
all interests.
As such, perhaps a way forward is to:
a. Keep the XBL2 CR on the REC track and put the burden of satisfying
the CR exit criteria (e.g. test suite creation) on those that support
it; and
b. Assuming there is "reasonable" interest in implementing the Sep 2010
ED of XBL, push it as a new spec on the REC track (i.e. something with a
shortname other than "xbl"). [At the risk of ratholing on names, "Web
XBL" is an option as is "Web BL" since (as Leigh pointed out), there is
no XML in [XBL-Sep-2010].]
Would the [XBL2-CR] proponents please provide their level of interest in
moving that spec forward? In particular, are you willing to create the
test suite necessary to exit CR?
Would the [XBL-Sep-2010] proponents indicate their level of interest in
moving that ED forward, in particular, information about implementation
plans?
Feedback, as always, is welcome.
-Art Barstow
[HEAD]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010JulSep/0675.html
[XBL-Sep-2010] http://dev.w3.org/2006/xbl2/
[XBL2-CR] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xbl-20070316/
[LEIGH]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010JulSep/1008.html
[DIFFS] http://dev.w3.org/2006/xbl2/Overview.html#editors-note
