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4. Other alternatives might involve using proprietary extensions, such as XUL/XBL. I suspect any implementation would be dependent on JavaScript, which would not satisfy those using <code>autocomplete</code> for putative security reasons. It would also be inferior to a cross-browser solution. However, such extensions might prove useful for backporting support for namespaced or microformated autocompletion instructions to old versions of browsers, whether Mozilla (with extensions or XUL/XBL), Konqueror (with [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kparts/ KParts]), or even to Internet Explorer (with [http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/htc/reference/htcref.asp HTC]). For an inspiring example of what can be achieved with such extensions, have a look at [http://w3future.com/weblog/gems/xhtml2.xml Sjoerd Visscher's XHTML 2 page at W3Future], which uses proprietary Opera CSS, XBL, and HTC to mimic XHTML 2 on current user agents. | 4. Other alternatives might involve using proprietary extensions, such as XUL/XBL. I suspect any implementation would be dependent on JavaScript, which would not satisfy those using <code>autocomplete</code> for putative security reasons. It would also be inferior to a cross-browser solution. However, such extensions might prove useful for backporting support for namespaced or microformated autocompletion instructions to old versions of browsers, whether Mozilla (with extensions or XUL/XBL), Konqueror (with [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kparts/ KParts]), or even to Internet Explorer (with [http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/htc/reference/htcref.asp HTC]). For an inspiring example of what can be achieved with such extensions, have a look at [http://w3future.com/weblog/gems/xhtml2.xml Sjoerd Visscher's XHTML 2 page at W3Future], which uses proprietary Opera CSS, XBL, and HTC to mimic XHTML 2 on current user agents. | ||
(As a sidenote, if we went down the namespaced route, we might like to create a more general http://www.legacymarkup.org/xmlns/legacyml namespace as a retirement home for all sorts of legacy markup that the W3C would, admirably but somewhat impractically, ignore.) | (As a sidenote, if we went down the namespaced route, we might like to create a more general <nowiki>http://www.legacymarkup.org/xmlns/legacyml</nowiki> namespace as a retirement home for all sorts of legacy markup that the W3C would, admirably but somewhat impractically, ignore.) | ||
== Appendix: Autocomplete alternatives == | == Appendix: Autocomplete alternatives == | ||