On 09/28/2014 01:31 PM, Lee Goddard wrote: > > On 28/09/2014 11:26, softwatt wrote: >> On 09/28/2014 01:20 PM, Lee Goddard wrote: >>> On 28/09/2014 10:48, softwatt wrote: >>>> Iframes are extremely limited in comparison to this. Only a "box" can >>>> be updated without any interaction whatsoever with the rest of the >>>> document, appending is non existent, and long-polling is not >>>> practical. >>>> >>> A native way to transclude markup to a node in the DOM, seems very much >>> in the spirit of the times. I can't say the same for the way you >>> specified attributes — seems to repeat the bungle seen in HTTP headers — >>> and I'm not sure about the need for any other than a URI, but I watch >>> with interest to see how this progresses. >> Http headers are indeeed a mess. (Though I think one needs atleast >> URI+Cookies). >> >> But Could you explain how this "seems to repeat the bungle seen in HTTP >> headers"? Don't you think that the current AJAX is the actual bungle and >> that this is a step towards simplicity? >> > Sorry — the bungle would be the way the attributes were specified as > semi-colon-delimited strings, rather than true attributes.
Oh. Sorry for misinterpreting that. I don't really mind making them separate. A general question: Do suggestions posted on a humble mailing list ever make it anywhere nowadays? If not, what additional steps would one need to take in order to put an idea into practice?
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