Adding a note to DOM2 Views

[Anne van Kesteren-2]

Hi Ian,

Yesterday the WebApps WG discussed the fate of the views concept and we  
decided that it was not worth keeping the theoretical concept around  
because in practice a lot of the APIs designed are not taking it into  
account and implementations are not interested in implementing support for  
it (or are in the process of removing the limited support they have). The  
interfaces would of course still be supported but you would always get the  
same global object and document, regardless of the media the document is  
being used in.

The idea is that the CSSOM View Module will obsolete DOM2 Views in due  
course, but we thought it would make sense to alert potential implementors  
that they should not be spending time on implementing the views concept of  
DOM2 Views by adding a note to the recommendation much like the CSS WG has  
done with CSS 2.0. We were wondering what the process for adding such a  
note might be.

Kind regards,


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Anne van Kesteren
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[Ian Jacobs-2]

On 3 Nov 2009, at 6:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Yesterday the WebApps WG discussed the fate of the views concept and  
> we decided that it was not worth keeping the theoretical concept  
> around because in practice a lot of the APIs designed are not taking  
> it into account and implementations are not interested in  
> implementing support for it (or are in the process of removing the  
> limited support they have). The interfaces would of course still be  
> supported but you would always get the same global object and  
> document, regardless of the media the document is being used in.
>
> The idea is that the CSSOM View Module will obsolete DOM2 Views in  
> due course, but we thought it would make sense to alert potential  
> implementors that they should not be spending time on implementing  
> the views concept of DOM2 Views by adding a note to the  
> recommendation much like the CSS WG has done with CSS 2.0. We were  
> wondering what the process for adding such a note might be.

Please send a request to my attention, cc webreq, with the text you  
would like to appear in the document.
Thanks for letting me know,

  _ Ian

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