Getting marginally off-topic for webkit-dev, but I don't mind having a
bit of general web standards discussion here...
On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Antoine Quint wrote:
On 8 déc. 07, at 01:14, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Antoine Quint wrote:
XML Events basically come in handy when you want a generic markup-
based way to
add event listeners for custom events. For instance, if XBL was
implemented in
WebKit, and I had my own custom magic UI control implemented with
some custom
XML element, [...]
...then you shouldn't be sending it over the wire, so it shouldn't
matter... (You shouldn't send custom, aka proprietary, vocabularies
over
the wire, since you have no way to guarentee the end user can
handle it.)
We're drifting away from the original topic a bit, but I'm wondering
if such a statement would jeopardize the validity of the existence
of XBL, or if you see XBL as a technology for standalone, browser-
based application? Personally, I see no big problem using custom
grammars when XBL is available on the client.
XBL is a better solution than today's de facto approach to custom
elements, <div class="something"> plus after-the-fact script hooks. It
lets you avoid having semantically neutral <div> elements in the case
where you want to make a custom widget that basically acts like an
existing element with known semantics. For example, when making a
custom button or checkbox with XBL, it's clearly better to bind to
<button> or <input type="checkbox"> respectively than to <div
class="button"> or <div class="checkbox">.
However, sometimes it is useful to package behavior and presentation
that doesn't sensibly correspond to the semantics of any existing
standard element. One example of this would be a tri-state checkbox.
But it's likely there will always be application interaction elements
that can't reasonably be expressed as a fancy version of a well-known
control.
In this case you'll still have the option of <div> with a special
class. And it is also technically feasible to use XML to bind to a
custom element in the HTML namespace, or in XML a custom element in a
custom namespace. I am not sure there is a material difference among
these options. In each case there are no predefined semantics being
expressed. But semantics could be added through widespread convention,
as with microformats.
Regards,
Maciej
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