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From: Razvan MIHAIU <mihaiu@------.---->
To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@---------------.-->
Date: 4/3/2005 7:18:00 PM

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> Razvan MIHAIU wrote:
>
>> Support for simple links in Amaya is broken. For example the 
>> xlink:show attribute is completely ignored. Mozilla support for this 
>> is better ?
>
>
> I could look it up, but you can do some research in 
> bugzilla.mozilla.org yourself ;-)
>
>
>>> This doesn't work within XHTML though and within SVG you can only 
>>> apply it to svg:a elements at the moment, not to all elements.
>>
>>
>>    I guess nothing will change here since Mozilla development has 
>> frozen.
>
>
> Nonsense. You are talking about the Mozilla Suite, I am not. Before 
> jumping to conclusions about Mozilla it might be wise to invest some 
> time to found out how it actually works. (Firefox is based on the 
> Mozilla Platform, for example. Just like various other Mozilla-based 
> products.)

    I know that FF is based on Mozilla, but I read that they want to 
concentrate on FF.
    I just checked their web site and it seems that there is going to be 
a Mozilla 1.9.

>
>
>> I think that we should look into the direction of Firefox but I do 
>> not have any hope that FF will implement those features soon. 
>> Currently, FF 1.01 does not support simple links.
>
>
> Really? What is your testcase for that? It works for me.

    I tried with an XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<invoice>
    <XLinkTestl xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onRequest" 
xlink:title="My First XLINK" xlink:href="http://www.google.com">
        XLINK test B
    </XLinkTestl>
</invoice>

    And with an HTML file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title>XLINK test</title>
</head>
<body>
<XLinkTestl xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onRequest" 
xlink:title="My First XLINK" xlink:href="http://www.google.com">
    XLINK test B
</XLinkTestl>
</body>
</html>

    Both fail under FF. Amaya recognizes the simple links from the XML 
file but it does not recognize the same links from the HTML file.

>
>
>> 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. You are quite an arrogant person, aren't you ?
    Provide examples of sites using XLINKS.

> Not sure what you are talking about.

    Yes, that could be a problem in any conversation.


-- 
Regards,
Razvan

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www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035/index.html
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www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035_test2/index.html
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