What happened to pup?
Mike Hearn
mike at navi.cx
Sun May 22 21:30:12 UTC 2005
On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:24:31 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Why XTF and not a traditional Netscape style plugin? Well, you really
> want to be able to control the rendering precisely and defer certain
> things to Gecko - like rendering SVG icons which are blended on top of
> web page content.
Oh, I forgot to mention some other advantages of using XTF:
- Browsers that don't support it will cleanly ignore the tags and so that
CSS block will just disappear. That makes web design a *lot* easier as
you don't need hacky JavaScript to figure out whether to add the icon or
not
- Semantically cleaner: a <launcher> (or whatever) tag is so much nicer
than random <object><embed/></> goop
- Makes it (reasonably) implementation independent
- Easier to extend with extra attributes or tags later instead of the
<param> system
thanks -mike
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