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From: kenneth.christiansen@gmail.com Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:24:49 -0300 To: abarth@webkit.org CC: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] What is XBL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBL , I guess?
"XBL (XML Binding Language) is an XML-based markup language used to declare the behavior and look of XUL-widgets and XML elements."
I don't think we need that :-)
( sorry if this is more incoherent than normal hotmail really having problems lately, imagine that ) This reminds me of another issue exemplified by XBRL or maybe RSS would be more familiar, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL http://www.xbrl.org/Home/ http://xbrl.sec.gov/ that I have seen developing between webpages designed for human readability ( lots of pictures or pdf's from which text can not be extracted in a sane format) and those that allow further data processing without a human baby sitter such as structured documents in an XML format. The big focus of the browser is generally to allow interactive access to graphics information- browse if you will. However, this limits the ability to use structured documents for automated data processing, as if anyone would do that with a computer. Personally, anything that can help make better use of structured data files while reasonably being within the scope of browsing should be considered. I guess you could say that this should all just be delegated to plugins for certain content types and probably largely so. Most webpages are designed to describe a human readable page but it is quite reasonable for a user to browse to a data file and have different hanlders for different platforms. RSS I would say usses essentially one type of "data file" that fits into this catagory.
Kenneth
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
What is XBL? As far as I can tell, there's no way this code can even build. It's incredibly stale. Can we remove it?
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