Alternatives to the W3C (was Re: Alternatives to the W3C)

[Didier PH Martin]

Hi Simon,

Simon said:
That plus support for simple XLinks is about the minimum needed for
building Web sites.  IE 5.0 will let you read XML+CSS; it won't let you
surf it.

(I could try its bizarrely broken html: pseudo-namespace, but let's not
even go there.)

Didier replies:
If we have the "link" property and the "@style" construct + EcmaScript we
have about everything needed to implement two kind of links:
a) simple links = object with "link" property
b) extended links = objects with attached behavior.

For extended links I already experimented with an EcmaScript behavior that
displays a menu in which all the links are displayed as menu options. Thus,
if you include an xlink:extended link in the document, this element is
associated to a behavior with a selector that match to either the
"xlink:extended" element or an other selector that matches to the attribute
"xlink:type="extended". the behavior uses the DOM to construct the context
menu from all the locators included in the extended link.

So, what is then required for an Xlink support is:
a) the link property
b) a behavior for the xlink:extended construct
c) and off course the behavior and @script constructs added to CSS.

ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/becss

If fact the behavior construct allows to create modular browser by adding
new functionalities in a standard way if the scripts are written in
EcmaScript and that they use strictly compliant DOMs.

Cheers
Didier PH Martin
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