Re: XLink and XPointer support in browsers

[AndrewWatt2000@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/02/01 15:21:14 GMT Standard Time, simonstl@simonstl.com 
writes:


> At 07:04 AM 2/11/01 -0500, AndrewWatt2000@aol.com wrote:
> >In Opera 5 XLink support seems to be totally absent, either natively and 
> when
> >using an SVG viewer.
>
> Opera is capable of supporting simple XLinks, though it does it through an 
> extension to CSS.  See:
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/04/19/opera/index.html
>
> I pulled that from a style sheet they included to support WML viewing.


Thanks Simon,

That is useful information. Clearly Opera has been using a non-standard XLink 
like functionality.

Perhaps they were waiting for a more stable specification than was the case 
when you wrote your article.

With the availability of a Proposed Recommendation for XLink I hope they will 
soon move to a standard XLink syntax.

I will forward your reply to the XLink mailing list on YahooGroups.com, since 
I don't think you are a member of that one.

Thanks again for the information

Regards

Andrew Watt