Re: [whatwg] Psuedo classes based on DOM Events

2006-12-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Rohan Prabhu wrote: i was just wondering, that in the Web Controls 1.0 specifications, in the psuedo classes specifications, could it be that the psuedo classes could also be the DOM Events which would modify the style information attached to it. Like for ex: #objectid:onmouseup

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-05 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:42:38 +0600, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should be the most damning of all is that I found an example on the most prominent page on the mozilla.org site. No one can say that the authors of that page didn't make a conscious choice in the DOCTYPE for that page.

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1: trailing slash and atheism)

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Schinkel
Henri Sivonen wrote: Are you saying that you don't believe the ecosystems around those languages to be capable of producing HTML5 parser libraries or are you saying that programmers wouldn't use the libraries even if the ecosystems produced them? The biggest problem (80%) is they won't use them

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1: trailingslash and atheism)

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Schinkel
I've just started (today) a .NET implementation (in C#): a parser as an XmlReader subclass and writers as XmlWriter and HtmlTextWriter subclasses. What license will you release under? Can this implementation (and others) be hosted somewhere that people would be willing to include in the

Re: [whatwg] markup as authored in practice

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Schinkel
Elliotte Rusty Harold: For a long time we not so deliberately did limit the Web to people who were comfortable hand editing tags. Then blogs came along, and changed all that. (Wikis too.) There's an order of magnitude more people publishing now than there used to be a few years ago, and

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types[was: trailing slash]

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Schinkel
Karl Dubost wrote: but there's a point that we might take into consideration: People. People do not want spend time structuring information, only a minority like me. If the only way to edit structured document is hand coding then it will fail. Always. But please don't use the idea of

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1: trailing slash and atheism)

2006-12-05 Thread James Graham
Mike Schinkel wrote: The lesser problems (20%) are that it will take time for reasonably good ones to evolve, and many will be subtly incompatible because of a variety of reasons: a.) lack of complete understand of the spec, b.) time-to-market concerns, c.) belief that full compatibility is not

Re: [whatwg] Microsoft Expression Web

2006-12-05 Thread James Graham
Mike Schinkel wrote: Microsoft released Expression Web yesterday: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-web/features.mspx The narrator for their video for Standards-based Web Sites says XHTML builds upon the HTML standard that allows a larger percentage of browsers to

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-05 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:00:06 +0600, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And as I write this email, it's finally come to me one method that would work for even the most clueless and apathetic of web publishers: What if Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live were to display a human-readable

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1: trailing slash and atheism)

2006-12-05 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:14:19 +0600, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spec shouldn't contain references to implementations. However the wiki should contain such a list (see http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Implementations ). Then minimally the spec should at least contain (something

[whatwg] References from the spec to wiki pages (was: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-05 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:30:36 +0600, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A specification cannot refer to something as volatile as a wiki page. Actually, it's already doing that in another section. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#other I think it's inappropriate there

Re: [whatwg] References from the spec to wiki pages (was: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 01:35 +0600, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: I think it's inappropriate there as well. How can a spec refer to a wiki page which can be edited by anyone and is, in general, out of sync with the spec itself? It seems problematic to me too. In the case of microformats, I'd

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Elias Torres
I'm back. Sorry for the delay. Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: In one of the products, we need two things: one to specify our own piece of structure data (call it microformat, call it RDFa data). Could you give an example of the kind of data you're talking about

Re: [whatwg] References from the spec to wiki pages (was: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: A specification cannot refer to something as volatile as a wiki page. Actually, it's already doing that in another section. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#other I think it's inappropriate there as well. How can

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread ryan king
On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Elias Torres wrote: If you can read in the uF wiki [1] there's really not much guidance on how to parse one or all of them. There is more documentation than you suggest. See [1], which documents how to parse hcards. Much of the hCard parsing guideline apply

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Elias Torres
There's plenty of documentation/code/test cases for *specific* microformats but no general rules for let's say additional fields in an hCard. Let me know if I'm missing any other documentation or overall principle in microformats. -Elias ryan king wrote: On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Elias

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: [...] I'm having trouble understanding what you're doing. Could you provide some actual code examples? They can be fictional, I'm just trying to work out what you're doing. For example: At the moment we have data defined using by XML schemas that

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread ryan king
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Elias Torres wrote: There's plenty of documentation/code/test cases for *specific* microformats but no general rules for let's say additional fields in an hCard. Let me know if I'm missing any other documentation or overall principle in microformats. You're not

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Elias Torres
ryan king wrote: On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Elias Torres wrote: There's plenty of documentation/code/test cases for *specific* microformats but no general rules for let's say additional fields in an hCard. Let me know if I'm missing any other documentation or overall principle in

[whatwg] Minor linking addition to parsing section

2006-12-05 Thread James Graham
It would be useful if in section 9.2.4.4. The trailing end phase, phrases such as Switch back to the main phase and reprocess the token. linked to the part of section 9.2.4.3.6. The insertion mode that define which insertion mode the main phase should be in when making this switch. -- The

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 5 déc. 2006 à 17:03, Ian Hickson a écrit : The one target now is HTML5. I wonder about one thing though. If the recommended serialization is HTML5, why is there new features which are simply not supported by HTML5 (list inside paragraphs, nested forms, etc.)? My impression is that

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Ian Hickson wrote: p id=order1 class=ibm-order p has purchased a span about=order1 property=ibm-part The key point here being the reference to an earlier blob in the same page, right? Interesting. That's something that currently can

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Elias Torres
On 12/5/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: p class=ibm-order span property=ibm-customer span property=ex-nameIan Hickson/span (span property=acme-id95237032895/span) /span has purchased a span

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Michel Fortin wrote: The one target now is HTML5. I wonder about one thing though. If the recommended serialization is HTML5, why is there new features which are simply not supported by HTML5 (list inside paragraphs, nested forms, etc.)? My impression is that

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: A few comments on your code. You can handle with n-levels deep, but not really nested property. Why not? I don't understand. Could you give concrete examples? You are also assuming that the content of the element is the entire value of the

[whatwg] Drop-in parsers (was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-05 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 5, 2006, at 16:07, Thomas Broyer wrote: 2006/12/5, Mike Schinkel: I've just started (today) a .NET implementation (in C#): a parser as an XmlReader subclass and writers as XmlWriter and HtmlTextWriter subclasses. Cool! I think making the HTML5 implementations drop-in replacements

Re: [whatwg] Drop-in parsers (was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: Of course, in all these cases, the element names should be reported in lower case unlike in browsers. Per HTML5 they're lowercase in browsers too, it's just that .tagName in the DOM in HTML Web browsers uppercases. (i.e. returning lowercase is not

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types [was: trailing slash]

2006-12-05 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 5 déc. 2006 à 22:44, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis a écrit : On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 09:25 +0900, Karl Dubost wrote: but there's a point that we might take into consideration: People. People do not want spend time structuring information, only a minority like me. (X)HTML is clearly not for people

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: Case in point: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/01/The-White-Pebble In IE, there's some stray XHTML HTML and XHTML HTML XML text. This isn't acceptable to most people. It certainly isn't something that it would make sense to

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 6 déc. 2006 à 11:23, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: Interesting. That's something that currently can only really be done with tables, output, and hyperlinks; I wonder if we should add a fourth way that is more convenient for Microformat-like data. And it's

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Sam Ruby
Ian Hickson wrote: I don't see any documentation that requires XHTML to not support display.write, but it certainly is a reality that nobody has done so. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#document.write1 (I'd like to make it work, but can't work out how to specify it. If

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Sam Ruby
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: Case in point: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/01/The-White-Pebble In IE, there's some stray XHTML HTML and XHTML HTML XML text. This isn't acceptable to most people. It certainly isn't something that it would make sense to

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Elias Torres
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: Also, remember, we are going after a declarative mechanism that binds structure to presentation and we don't know ahead of time all of the properties that are attached to a structure. I don't see why this is a problem.

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Robert Sayre
On 12/5/06, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case there is anybody here who doesn't faithfully follow my blog grin, I have prototyped MathML + SVG + XLINK in HTML4: ... [modify parser]... This could be designed in such a way that it was only enabled as an about:config option. Where I

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-05 Thread Elias Torres
I needed a family break. I'm back, sorry for the interruption. -Elias Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: A few comments on your code. You can handle with n-levels deep, but not really nested property. Why not? I don't understand. Could you give concrete examples?

[whatwg] WA1: Link type index

2006-12-05 Thread fantasai
I believe the 'index' link type definition isn't quite right, considering prior definitions of the term[1]. It seems to me that 'index' would be more appropriate, given its prior definitions, for linking to things like CSS2.1's list of properties (Appendix F).

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-05 Thread fantasai
Thomas Broyer wrote: There's no need to fetch every link if you base your assumptions on the type= attribute (and *only* the type= attribute, not the combination with any special rel= attribute value). How does this solution deal with, e.g. hAtom? http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom The

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-05 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Ian Hickson wrote: I agree that the requirements could be deduced. But unless they are actually there, they aren't actually there. If you see what I mean. If something can be deduced it is there for all intents and purposes. You can look at this from a very practical perspective: someone wants