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Re: XLINK support in browsers


firefox xlink
Razvan MIHAIU wrote:
>> You need to declare some styles obviously. (Although you could make
>> this work by adding <?xml-stylesheet?> right after the XML
>> Declaration.
>> 
> Indeed it is working. I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. why do I need to add a style sheet ? I just want to have 2 XML 
> documents and to establish a link between them. That is all.

You need to define style so Mozilla knows how to render it. At least, 
that is how it works now. It might be worth submitting a bug report 
about styling documents using attributes from the XLink namespace by 
default.


> 2. what "magic" is done by your empty style sheet declaration ? I
> mean you don't even define a type for your style-sheet - like
> "text/xsl";

I guess the renderer assumes that I want some sort of style. Not sure
why it does that though. (Note that although the psuedo-attribute is
required, it is purely advisory and therefore isn't really important.
Note also that text/xsl is just some IE hack.)


>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> By any site *you* know?
>>> 
>>> Yes, by any site I know.
>> 
>> Perhaps I misunderstood, but did you said that because you consider
>>  yourself a mainstream user or so?
>> 
> I am sure that you can understand better from the context. Just try 
> harder this time.

Well, I thought you meant that the Firefox "website priority list" was
pretty much the same to the sites you know and visit. That is why I was
surprised and emphazed the word "you". I later figured that I might have
misunderstood you and asked for some clarification.


>>> You are quite an arrogant person, aren't you ?
>> 
>> Care to explain?
>> 
> You whole e-mail is build with a superiority tone. You don't say "FF
>  supports simple links. Please provide a sample were this is failing"
> but instead choose to say:
> 
> "Really? What is your testcase for that?"

I actually did say that. But you thought that Mozilla and Firefox were
not the same. Perhaps I should not have assumed you to know that, sorry
about that.


> And why do you underline the word "you" ?
> 
> "By any site *you* know?"
> 
> You assume that I only know a few sites.

Not at all. Please read my explanation above.


> All of this is quite obvious so, I do not understand you ask for 
> explanations about it.

Because it is easy to misunderstand people in an e-mail conversation.


-- 
  Anne van Kesteren
  <http://annevankesteren.nl/>


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