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
http://annevankesteren.nl/
