Sounds good to leave them in then. Why I ask now is for the <icon> and <splashscreen> discussions / pull requests going on right now.
We can call them: <cdv:icon> <cdv:splashscreen> And then start thinking about moving to JSON. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > Ya I think my ambivalence stems from the same thinking Josh points out. I'd > love to move us to package.json personally. I think all agreed last meeting > that was solving problems we don't really have. > > And ultimately MANY downstreams are relying on both XML and namespaces so > removing them will have be a noisy MAJOR update sort of thing. > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Josh Soref <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Andrew wrote: > > > Maybe I'm crazy, but I can't stand them. > > > > Most people can't > > > > > I don't think they add any value, > > > > They allow other products which are frozen ("released to an audience") to > > interoperate in a defined manner with your software. And vice versa. > > > > If you don't care about that, then there isn't much reason to use XML > > (it's a horrible language). > > > > For the most part, I'd say that Cordova pretty much by definition doesn't > > care about this. Moving the file from www/ to www/../ broke existing > > software (amusingly including cordova serve). Cordova's view is basically > > that people will update their tools to work with the new version. And > > that's fine, but it isn't really a match for the promise of XML. > > > > > and are a cause of confusion. > > > > Absolutely > > > > > So... I'd like to: > > > A: Remove xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"; from our config.xml > > template > > > B: Change xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"; -> xmlns=" > > http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"; > > > C: Revert the commit that enforces the namespace to exist. > > > > > Does anyone hate this idea? > > > > I'm pretty sure we (BlackBerry) will have to do some work in response to > > this, but that isn't a big deal. > > > > If you're going to depart from the file format, why not switch to JSON? > > > > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/02/06/json-debugger-visualizer-in-visual-studio-2013.aspxevenMicrosoft > is offering editors for it. > > > > Is there any value that you see in Cordova using XML? > > > > > > >
