Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-02 Thread James Graham
White Lynx wrote: James Graham wrote: I remain sceptical about this. However, if there is a serious effort to replace MathML I believe the resulting language must fulfil the following requirements: 1) Easy conversion from standard LaTeX2e. There are plenty of different packages and low level

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-01 Thread James Graham
L. David Baron wrote: I don't see why the same attribute _shouldn't_ be used to determine the type of data to allow, and whether to do spell checking or not. After all, whether to spell-check is directly related to what kind of data it is. This sounds a lot like object, which allowed for tons

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-06-01 Thread James Graham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Graham wrote: In this situation, I imagine most scientists will simply write LaTeX and use a tool to produce the output format that they desire. I doubt because LaTeX has not the sufficient capabilities for a full web design. Let me address this one point

Re: [whatwg] Rich Text Editor

2006-05-30 Thread James Graham
A couple of comments that are basically tangentially related to your request. Cow wrote: * Right Click Edit in [ Dreamweaver, Nvu, MS Word...] There's no reason an existing textarea couldn't offer this. Indeed I once spent about 10 minutes failing to implement this is Mozilla using XBL

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-05-29 Thread James Graham
Michel Fortin wrote: Maybe I can add my view to this thread. I'm no user of MathML, nor do I write often complicated equations on the web. I don't know much Latex either. One thing I know however is that the next time I'll have to put an equation on a web page, I won't go looking for a

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-05 Thread James Graham
Jim Ley wrote: On 2/5/06, James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: On 2/5/06, James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOM 3 XPath is of course only defined for XML, whilst it's no trouble defining it for valid HTML, it's not currently, for this reason I would prefer just having

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-04 Thread James Graham
Jim Ley wrote: On 2/4/06, Brad Fults [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reasons why XBL is not currently an acceptable substitute are numerous, including its extremely limited implementation, So something with no implementation should be taken over something with an existing implementation, that's

Re: [whatwg] Tag Soup: Blocks-in-inlines

2006-01-26 Thread James Graham
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:09:44 +0600, Anne van Kesteren em has never been defined in a way that it could give entire paragraphs emphasis. I'm not really saying anything is wrong about it, just that has never been defined. Also, em was defined to be inline-level

Re: [whatwg] Definition of alt= attribute

2006-01-21 Thread James Graham
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 19, 2006, at 14:05, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Without the alt attribute img becomes meaningless for devices (and people) who can not interpreted images. Good intention, yes, but let's consider the practice: Suppose there is an authoring tool that has a design goal

Re: [whatwg] a href= ping=

2006-01-19 Thread James Graham
Thomas Much wrote: am 19.01.2006 23:50 Uhr schrieb Tyler Close unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, they'll just disable it Why hasn't this happened to the HTTP Referer header? There are browsers out there that let the user disable the HTTP referrer (and enable it only for certain sites that

Re: [whatwg] CENTER, MENU, DIR, NL

2006-01-17 Thread James Graham
Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: Hi all. Here is an example that I'm working on now. I'm trying to make a flyer/brochure to hand out to businesses after talking to them. I hope that they will consider giving me merchandise to use as prizes for a poker club that I'm trying to start. There is

Re: [whatwg] Presentational elements in Web Applications 1.0

2006-01-17 Thread James Graham
Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:39:29 -0800, Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If authors -- or specifications -- try too hard to use a semantic element, or to force other people to use it, it will be misused so much that UAs can no longer trust the element to have

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] The profile Attribute

2005-09-16 Thread James Graham
Matthew Raymond wrote: James Graham wrote: Most documents on the web are a direct result of view-source style learning. If they're invalid rubbish, it's (at least partly) because spec writers have erronously assumed that the majority of authors would have enough of a clue to check things

Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?

2005-08-29 Thread James Graham
Matthew Raymond wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: So, effectively, what you're saying about textarea accept=text/html is the following: 1) The HTML in a textarea is unstyled (at least unstyled by the parent document) unless styles or stylesheets are

Re: [whatwg] showModalDialog

2005-07-01 Thread James Graham
Matthew Raymond wrote: Is it possible to keep the two discussions chromeless windows and modal dialogs separate, please? If you're talking about modal dialogs, chromeless windows have to come up because modal dialogs must be chromeless. Why? I missed that somewhere... Anyway, browser

Re: [whatwg] showModalDialog

2005-07-01 Thread James Graham
Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote: On 1 Jul 2005 at 11:44, Sanghyeon Seo wrote: Concerning recent thread about modal and modeless windows, did anyone mention showModalDialog already? http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/showmodaldialog.asp I believe this

Re: [whatwg] Re: modal and modeless windows

2005-06-28 Thread James Graham
Karl Pongratz wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: Every indication is that chromeless windows are on their way out. I would be very sad if that would happen. Its currently the only way to keep forms out of history and to unlock them from the back/next button. So I would suggest to keep

Re: [whatwg] [Web Forms 2.0] type=url

2005-06-28 Thread James Graham
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, fantasai wrote: Does this allow relative urls? Please specify explicitly. It is specified very explicitly. Sorry, how about stated very obviously? the IRI token does not obviously exclude relative URLs unless one is in the habit of

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] sl - The Selection List element

2005-06-08 Thread James Graham
Matthew Raymond wrote: J. Graham wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: [Snip!] | selectgroup classname=myclass1 multiple=False / | | table | tbody | tr | [...header row...] | /tr | tr class=myclass1 | [...first row of block two data...] | /tr |

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] sl - The Selection List element

2005-06-06 Thread James Graham
Aankhen wrote: On 6/3/05, James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It sounds like a problem that needs an attribute for grouping elements (class would be fine because all we're doing is grouping elements) and a way of specifying the type of relationship that the elements in a particular

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] sl - The Selection List element

2005-06-06 Thread James Graham
Aankhen wrote: Reusing class has the added advantage that authors are already familar with grouping items through the class attribute and in particular, are already familar with attaching style through class. This should make for a shallow learning curve as using new features will be a simple

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] sl - The Selection List element

2005-06-03 Thread James Graham
Matthew - I assume you meant to send this to the list? Matthew Raymond wrote: James Graham wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: R.J.Koppes wrote: I don't really see the advantage above using ordinary lists or form controls and css pseudoclasses like :target ,:focus and :active Let's look

Re: [whatwg] Using X3D in XHTML documents

2005-06-03 Thread James Graham
Matthew Raymond wrote: If this is acceptable, does this negate the value of a potential 3d context for canvas in XHTML? Presumably X3D:3D canvas is equivalent to SVG:2D canvas. -- But if science you say still sounds too deep, Just do what Beaker does, just shrug and 'Meep!' -- Dr. Bunsen

Re: [whatwg] A thought: a href=... method=post

2005-05-13 Thread James Graham
Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 13, 2005, at 06:28, Michael Gratton wrote: Most web applications I have seen (certainly nearly every one written in Java) do not differentiate between parameters provided by a GET or a POST; you can do either and the application will work in the same way. Of the

Re: [whatwg] A thought: a href=... method=post

2005-05-09 Thread James Graham
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: James Graham wrote: I should have stated explicitly that when I said marking the message as read in some way I intended that the some way could be more than just changing a message's unread flag, it could be e.g. moving the message from the inbox to a Read messages folder

Re: [whatwg] A thought: a href=... method=post

2005-05-08 Thread James Graham
Matthew Thomas wrote: All the Webmail application is doing is retaining visited/unvisited presentation across whatever computer you log in to your Webmail from -- which is part of the point of it being a Web application in the first place. So that's not really a good example of a non-idempotent

Re: [whatwg] text/html flavor conformance checkers and foo /

2005-04-26 Thread James Graham
Anne van Kesteren wrote: Brad Neuberg wrote: What should text/html flavor conformance checkers say about foo /? Silently treat as foo as per SGML? Silently treat as foo as per real world? Report a warning? Report an error? What about foo/? I am leaning towards reporting an error. Unfortunately,

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] The profile Attribute

2005-04-18 Thread James Graham
Lachlan Hunt wrote: James Graham wrote: Having namespaces only where conflicts occur strikes me as unwise - in general the author is unlikely to know what the complete range of values in a given spec is and it makes documents very fragile to addition of data from new profiles and to addition

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] The profile Attribute

2005-04-17 Thread James Graham
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Imagine you use publicly available profiles A and B. Two months later, the author of profile A updates his profile to include the definition baz, meaning something completely different to the definition from profile B. Well, I'd say the

Re: Call four comments 4 is out (Was: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 submission to W3C)

2005-04-13 Thread James Graham
Dean Jackson wrote: On 13 Apr 2005, at 19:31, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Dean Jackson wrote: Ok. Could you provide us with a list of features you believe need use cases listed? That would be really helpful in creating such a document. All of them. That's never going to happen, just

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