The XBL code in the Safari tree is dead. It's not compiled, and it
was based on XBL1 (Mozilla's XBL) anyway.
dave
On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Matthew Raymond wrote:
James Graham wrote:
Matthew Raymond wrote:
What Firefox is doing for DHTML accessibility has a very
narrow use
case. It applies to DHTML widgets, that are not bound to fallback
markup
using XBL [...]
Without commenting (yet!) on the rest of this thread, I should
just note
that any argument that relies on the near-future widespread
deployment
of XBL is unconvincing. I would be extremely surprised if the
entire XBL
spec is easier to implement than some targeted extensions to HTML,
therefore we shouldn't use it as a justification any more than any
other
unlikely to be implemented soon technology.
Mozilla is committed to having XBL 2.0 implemented as early as
version 3.0 of Firefox. Apple's WebCore has source code
specifically for
XBL, so it isn't unreasonable to think that XBL will eventually be
implemented for Safari and KHTML. Ian Hickson was an employee of Opera
during most of the development of the XBL 2.0 draft, and the joint
Mozilla-Opera position paper sent to the W3C talks about XBL, so
there's
some reason to believe that they'll eventually support XBL as well.
So,
chances are that only Microsoft won't have XBL 2.0 implemented within
the next couple of years.
Still, you're right about ease of implementation. The |role|
attribute is easier to implement, but that |class| is even easier
because it's already there.
[...] where a proper CSS presentation for the users primary media is
not available [...]
This is almost always the case on the real web.
Yeah, the web masters are so lazy that they can't be bothered to
add
accessibility via CSS, but they'll be working overtime putting in |
role|
attributes using the correct predefined values.
/me rolls eyes.
I don't see a significant difference between |role| and
predefined
values for |class|.
Oh and I'm allergic to predefined class values :)
I would suggest a strong antihistamine whenever you use a
microformat.
