On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>wrote:
> 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>
>
>
There is also an <icon> element on the w3c specification (the default
namespace). You may want to reuse that one
> And then start thinking about moving to JSON.
>
I would not mind.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> 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 <jso...@blackberry.com>
> 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.aspxevenMicrosoftis
> offering editors for it.
> > >
> > > Is there any value that you see in Cordova using XML?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
