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Re: XLINK support in browsers

• To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@a...>
• Subject: Re: XLINK support in browsers
• From: Razvan MIHAIU <mihaiu@m...>
• Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 04:29:36 +0300
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Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> Razvan MIHAIU wrote:
>
>> Is there any browser that supports the XLINK specification (one that 
>> supports extended links) ?
>
>
> Mozilla has support for simple links, e.g:
>
>  <foo xmlns="tag:example.org,2005-04-02:foo-ns"
>       xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>       xlink:href="http://www.google.com/"
>       xlink:type="simple"/>
>
    Support for simple links in Amaya is broken. For example the 
xlink:show attribute is completely ignored. Mozilla support for this is 
better ?

> This doesn't work within XHTML though and within SVG you can only 
> apply it to svg:a elements at the moment, not to all elements.

    I guess nothing will change here since Mozilla development has frozen.
    I think that we should look into the direction of Firefox but I do 
not have any hope that FF will implement those features soon. Currently, 
FF 1.01 does not support simple links. FF tries to be a 'mainstream' 
browser, so, implementing features that are not used by any site I know 
cannot be on their priority list.



Regards,
Razvan

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