* Mark Birbeck wrote: >As to adding more and more hacks, no one doubts that you can keep adding >another line of script to test for yet another permutation. But as the world >of compound documents gets closer, don't you think that there needs to be a >generic solution that allows for testing not just for SVG, but for MathML, >XForms and so on? I recognise your criticisms of DOMImplementation, but at >some point we do need it to work...or rather it needs to be made to work.
I certainly agree. Such facilities aren't cheap though, you need * Very clear well-defined conformance requirements * Extensive test suites for these facilities * Strong commitment to 100% compliance * Strong and reliable means to enforce compliance At the moment, for SVG feature strings, we don't have any of that. In fact, it's probably worse, there are still many authors who do not care at all even about most basic conformance requirements like using well- formed XML; many authors still think "We usually find checking with [IE, Opera and Firefox] is enough for our work". If we can't convince authors to ensure their content is conforming, there is little hope to convince implementers to code correctly. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hiiuhpk/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1706030389:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123020714/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
