On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:24:31 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > Why XTF and not a traditional Netscape style plugin? Well, you really > want to be able to control the rendering precisely and defer certain > things to Gecko - like rendering SVG icons which are blended on top of > web page content. Oh, I forgot to mention some other advantages of using XTF: - Browsers that don't support it will cleanly ignore the tags and so that CSS block will just disappear. That makes web design a *lot* easier as you don't need hacky JavaScript to figure out whether to add the icon or not - Semantically cleaner: a <launcher> (or whatever) tag is so much nicer than random <object><embed/></> goop - Makes it (reasonably) implementation independent - Easier to extend with extra attributes or tags later instead of the <param> system thanks -mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
