Re: [whatwg] The dialog element and related topics

2008-05-07 Thread fantasai
Ian Hickson wrote: The main reason for dialog is to resolve the evergreen debate about what markup to use for dialogs, so actually the questions above are mostly moot. :-) Didn't you say Shutting people up is not a valid use case for a new feature, IMHO. ? (Sorry, couldn't resist. I have

Re: [whatwg] The dialog element and related topics

2008-05-07 Thread Simon Pieters
On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:37:43 +0200, fantasai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think conversation or transcript or discussion are better than dialog. I agree that dialog is a suboptimal name, though. On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Nicholas C. Zakas wrote: As discussed earlier this week, the

Re: [whatwg] Text APIs on canvas

2008-05-07 Thread Tim Johansson
On Tue, 06 May 2008 05:10:41 +0200, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have introduced the following APIs: context.font context.textAlign context.textBaseline context.fillText() context.strokeText() strokeText more or less requires a scalable font, which is not available

Re: [whatwg] HTML4's profile= attribute's absence in HTML5

2008-05-07 Thread Julian Reschke
Ian Hickson wrote: Summary: profile= doesn't work in practice so we have dropped it. We haven't replaced it with anything since there isn't really a problem to solve -- conflicts don't occur in practice, as Microformat names are picked to be rather unique and recognisable. The market takes

Re: [whatwg] SQL section feedback

2008-05-07 Thread Brady Eidson
On May 6, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: In the current SQL storage spec (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sql.html ), all database operations can be nicely tucked onto a separate thread, so that they

Re: [whatwg] Text APIs on canvas

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Tim Johansson wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2008 05:10:41 +0200, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have introduced the following APIs: context.font context.textAlign context.textBaseline context.fillText() context.strokeText() strokeText more or

[whatwg] OT: Re: Text APIs on canvas

2008-05-07 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Ian Hickson schrieb: I don't want to mislead implementators into thinking bitmap fonts are in any way an option in this day and age. Hey, 9 pt Monaco as a bitmap font is still my favorite font for programming, e-mail, shell, ... But I guess that's slightly off-topic for a discussion about

Re: [whatwg] Text APIs on canvas

2008-05-07 Thread fantasai
Ian Hickson wrote: The idea is that only scalable (vector) fonts should be used, since otherwise things will quickly look ugly. I've made the spec require this. Going forward the spec is likely to require effects such as adding text to paths, which will require vector data for all fonts

Re: [whatwg] Text APIs on canvas

2008-05-07 Thread Philipp Kempgen
fantasai schrieb: Ian Hickson wrote: The idea is that only scalable (vector) fonts should be used, since otherwise things will quickly look ugly. I've made the spec require this. Going forward the spec is likely to require effects such as adding text to paths, which will require vector

Re: [whatwg] link rel=icon width=

2008-05-07 Thread Philipp Serafin
I'd like to plug the approach with MIME parameters again, because it seems by far the most elegant and clean to me. However, instead of specifying multiple sizes in one MIME parameter, couldn't we just define two parameters width and heigth (and perhaps a ratio for graphics without inherent

Re: [whatwg] HTML4's profile= attribute's absence in HTML5

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Mike Schinkel wrote: Your logic is filled with fallacy. It pressumes that because people are not doing something that would otherwise cause a problem because that problem currently doesn't exist. That would be like you saying But people in this region don't need

[whatwg] The Offline Application Cache system feedback

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Anders Carlsson wrote: The text: A browsing context can be associated with an application cache. A child browsing context is always associated with the same browsing context as its parent browsing context, if any. should be: A browsing context can be associated

[whatwg] fullscreen event?

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 6 May 2006, Martijn wrote: I was thinking, maybe a fullscreen (and a normalscreen event or something like that) event would be useful? Also, a fullScreen property (which returns true or false) on the window would in that case be handy. Afaik, Mozilla already has such a property,

Re: [whatwg] Adding mouseenter and mouseleave events

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Magnus Kristiansen wrote: Mouseover/out events will trigger when elements contained inside the EventTarget are hovered, and then bubble up. This is contrary to the most obvious interpretation, as you are still inside (over) the targeted element. IE supports two events,

[whatwg] link rel=icon width= height=aRe:

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
I've added a sizes attribute to link for the icon keyword. It takes a space separated list of keywords consisting of two integers separated by an x or the keyword any. GENERAL NEED On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Ian Hickson wrote: The Gears team has an API that allows authors to specify a set of

Re: [whatwg] fullscreen event?

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Martijn wrote: I don't understand. What are you replying to? What is the reason to stir up this old discussion? I am slowly replying to all e-mail ever sent to the WHATWG list. That's how I make sure that I take everyone's feedback into account and that I don't ignore

Re: [whatwg] link rel=icon width= height=aRe:

2008-05-07 Thread Charles
I think specifying aspect ratio and specifying duration of sound clip are less compelling information to provide than icon sizes. We haven't had any requests for anything but height/width. An in the SVG case, if you have a height/width you already have the aspect ratio anyway. -- Charles

Re: [whatwg] link rel=icon width= height=aRe:

2008-05-07 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added a sizes attribute to link for the icon keyword. It takes a space separated list of keywords consisting of two integers separated by an x or the keyword any. Cool. Thanks for being so responsive on this. - a