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Hi Gerald, Its funny, a lot of W3C members stick to see Html as an abstract model and not as a rendering language even if all the browser propose a default rendition for HTML elements. That default rendition is overridden by CSS properties. It's also funny to see that politics prevented us to see some useful innovations to be embedded in specs coming from W3C. a) Content editable elements b) Behaviors The two previous features are tremendously useful when implementing a rich internet applications or in other words, applications running on the client side. For example, an HTML document includes to tables, both of them need to be edited, sorted and browsed. The behavior mechanism allows modifying the table behavior into a new interaction component: a table that can be sorted, edited and browsed. If we can change at run time the properties I do not see why it is so wrong not being able to change the behavior. Moreover, the code can be-reused in different context and this is a good practice. Idem for content editable, such feature allows editing some parts of a document without being constrained by limited widget sets. In fact, add to this the capacity to include SVG content and you have an even richer environment than flash. A good point, recently Mozilla became more and more interesting as a rich internet application environment. Would be great if religion positions and right wing thinking would be replaced by practical minds and see the appearance of useful tools helping us build rich internet application. Macromedia presented a good model. In the beginning of the 90s, with the appearance of powerbuilder and visual basic we got rich applications running on the client side, the user experience was getting better and better (rich but very little reach). In the last part of the 90s we got mass deployment of very poor applications (very good reach but very poor experience). I hope that we will now reach a more balanced state with high reach and rich applications. Cheers Didier PH Martin
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