Re: [xml-dev] Where is XML going

[Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>]

On Dec 4, 2010, at 15:41, Michael Kay wrote:

> The ONLY reason for doing it on the server is that the server is an open platform while the browser is a closed platform. So fix that problem.

How do you define "open platform"? You can run any JavaScript program in browsers without App Store -like restrictions, so the browser platform is an open platform in the sense Windows is one. There are two Open Source browser engine implementations, so the browser platform is an open platform in the sense Linux is one. The relevant specs are defined in public. (Contrast this with XSLT WG which was the only group at TPAC marked confidential *and* marked as not accepting observers. http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/Schedule )

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