Re: [whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-18 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: I think the opposite.  If I upgraded my site to this, I'd want nearly all the links to onlyreplace.  There's only a handful of same-origin

Re: [whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-18 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Schuyler Duveen wha...@graffitiweb.org wrote: Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Schuyler Duveen wha...@graffitiweb.org wrote: The problem is that people will make links that refresh different parts of a document, to the point

Re: [whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-17 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Promoting this reply to top-level because I think it's crazy good. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com

Re: [whatwg] No interface flicker across page loads, without JavaScript (was: framesets)

2009-10-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: Aryeh Gregor schrieb: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Nelson Menezes flying.mushr...@gmail.com wrote: As an aside, there is a reason why AJAX has become so popular over the past few years: it solves the specific UI-reset

Re: [whatwg] No interface flicker across page loads, without JavaScript (was: framesets)

2009-10-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: Interesting idea! Anyway it introduces some consistency problems to solve, e.g.: Page1.html contains: static id=fooI eat meat/static and links

[whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
Promoting this reply to top-level because I think it's crazy good. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: As well, this still doesn't answer the question of what to do

Re: [whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
A few public responses to issues/questions brought up in IRC: (thanks, Aryeh and Philip!) How is this better than iframe seamless and a target? = It's significantly better in multiple ways, actually. 1. iframes, like frames before them,

Re: [whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: Yes it looks like an AJAX killer. Well, for a particular common, useful pattern. AJAX will still be alive and well for solving more general classes of problems. Actually the problem I mentioned for Aryehs first proposal

Re: [whatwg] a onlyreplace

2009-10-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: (Also, in your examples you probably want @onlyreplace=content navigation, since your nav is changing from page to page as well. Indeed. Or, maybe I'd do it slightly differently, somehow like: ul id=navigation  lia

Re: [whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Ian Hickson Anyway, Perhaps this will do? If a transparent element were to be removed but its descendants were kept as they are, the content should remain conformant. Or: Any transparent

Re: [whatwg] fieldset (was: The legend element)

2009-10-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jeremy Keith jer...@adactio.com wrote: Hixie wrote: Then it might be nice to clarify this with a few words in the spec, as The fieldset element represents a set of form controls optionally grouped under a common name can be read as implying structuring and

Re: [whatwg] disabled and readonly attributes

2009-10-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: In 4.10.15.2 (disabled) and 4.10.5.2.3 (readonly) I can't find out what UAs should submit if an element is disabled resp. readonly: - nothing - the default value - any value that might have been entered, or assigned via DOM,

Re: [whatwg] disabled and readonly attributes

2009-10-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:07:16 +0200, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like I'm not the only one confused by the difference between disabled and readonly, then. Disabled controls are not

Re: [whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: I have an argument with a colleague of mine regarding Transparent elements. He filed a bug regarding this in bugzilla and I wrote to the html5doctor about it with a question, but neither action has answered our

Re: [whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. Neither of you are *quite* right, but you are much closer to correct than your colleague.  A transparent element *must* contain the same kinds of elements that its direct parent can

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Peter Brawley p...@artfulsoftware.com wrote: A DB row is a tree node and it must be possible to block bookmarking of such rows. You keep implying that frames make it possible to block bookmarking. They do not. Anyone can right click-open frame and then just

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch] Please file specific bugs or send specific e-mails for each example you think should be reworked; there are over 300 examples in the spec and without knowing what is

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. iframe src=example1_jpg.html name=detail p A long story regarding the companies' origins and goals... /p div id=advert.../div ul       lia target=detail href

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: B) It also says for ASIDE that: The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. Also, a side-bar, what is that, since side-bars are usually separately layed-out and not always directly around the content. You're interpreting around too strictly here.  It means just

Re: [whatwg] The placeholder attribute - Last Call Comment/Question

2009-10-08 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote: Comment on 4.10.5.2.11 The placeholder attribute: What is the user-interaction behavior for this? Should the behavior be specified, or should this be implementation-dependent? I believe that there's currently no

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-10-04 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Keryx Web webmas...@keryx.se wrote: I am arguing in favor of introducing a new element, which would be the zero cost solution, since details is new anyway. It's not a zero-cost solution, though. It introduces *another* nearly identical heading-type element to

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-10-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Dean Edwards dean.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/10/2009 03:38, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: Agreed, butdetails  won't be usable at all in modern browsers (without hacking support in via js) until everyone updates. That's the whole point of this thread. We

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-10-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Keryx Web webmas...@keryx.se wrote: 2009-10-03 00:51, Tab Atkins Jr. skrev: dt/dd  only have parsing problems in IE6 and IE7.  Both of them *are*, finally, actually dropping off the radar.  Windows 7 will accelerate this as people upgrade with an OS that runs

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-10-02 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Dean Edwards dean.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/09/2009 21:55, Keryx Web wrote: 2009-09-29 21:53, Dean Edwards wrote: Can't we just invent some new elements? We've already created 20 new ones. Two more won't hurt. :) This has been discussed on the HTML5 WG

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-10-02 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com wrote: On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:51:55 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: the use-case for figure and details are sorta minimal anyway - it's enough that they can justify themselves, but just barely. Use case

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-09-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dean Edwards dean.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: This will also affect the figure element. Test case: http://dean.edwards.name/test/details.html Luckily this has already been discovered and hacked around:

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-09-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dean Edwards dean.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I can't get it to work using document.write(). Do you have a live example? Yup. http://www.xanthir.com/etc/html5-details-fix.html (This works in IE8 when the page mode is set to IE7 or Quirks. It's possible that this

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for details breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-09-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Dean Edwards dean.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: You have two choices to get around the dd rendering bug: 1. The potentially dangerous document.write() 2. Inserting weird conditional comments into your code:    /head     !--[if lt IE 8]object!![endif]--    body

Re: [whatwg] Closing tags for empty content model

2009-09-28 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Marius Gundersen gunder...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't you always close the tags, either self-closing or with a separate close tag? That is, this is the correct way to do it: video width=640 height=360 style=color:red  source src=bunny.ogv type=video/ogg /  

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: structured clones lead to ambiguity in detecting if a key is set w/ getItem()

2009-09-23 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Brett Cannon br...@python.org wrote: Before the move to structured clones one could tell if a key was set by calling getItem() and seeing if it returned null (had to use === as someone could have called setItem() w/ null, but that would be coerced to a string

Re: [whatwg] Using Web Workers without external files

2009-09-23 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: I think making data: urls is an ok solution, At the moment, data: urls don't seem to be usable with Workers due to same-origin restrictions; canvas methods get to special-case data: to not be treated as different-origin (and

Re: [whatwg] object behavior

2009-09-22 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Michael A. Puls II shadow2...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:29 -0400, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Of course, if the idea is to support deferring for images, object and embed etc. and it's not desired that that support be given through

Re: [whatwg] article/section/details naming/definition problems

2009-09-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM, James Cready jcre...@rtcrm.com wrote: Jeremy Keith said: article   h1 /   article     h1 /       ...     article       h1 /     /article   /article /article Just curious as to how your above examples would affect SEO. Wouldn't Google lower your rank

Re: [whatwg] Fakepath revisited

2009-09-07 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Alex Henriealexhenri...@gmail.com wrote: Expecting developers to hack out a substring at all will only lead to more bad designs. For example, Linux and Mac OS allow filenames to contain backslashes. So if the filename was up\load.txt then foo.value would be

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-09-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jens Alfke wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: We can't treat cookies and persistent storage differently, because otherwise we'll expose users to cookie resurrection attacks.

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-09-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jens Alfke wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: We can't treat cookies

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-09-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: And more-than-a-cache-Storage can be explicitly turned off or have its quota dropped to zero.  If that's important, the browsers will make it easy

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-09-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: You may have missed the part where Ian said that, to protect their user's privacy, browsers *must* clear cookies and LocalStorage at the same time

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-09-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: There's more wording in a later section on cookie resurrection which gives more background. Does that satisfy your request? I think that later section

Re: [whatwg] textarea semantics for wrap, readonly, and disabled

2009-09-02 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dirk Prankedpra...@chromium.org wrote: 2) wrap=off does not appear to be a legitimate value, despite being implemented in all the major browsers. Is this an oversight, or an intentional omission? This value is specified down in the rendering section, as it

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-08-31 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Outlawing persistent storage in HTML5 as a privacy mechanism does *nothing* for privacy.  There are numerous methods, Flash LocalStorage in

Re: [whatwg] EDITORIAL - Suggested corrections

2009-08-28 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Kevin Bensonkevin.m.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Kevin Benson wrote: 4.10.4.1.17 Radio Button state Either neither a nor b have a form owner, or they both have one and it is the

Re: [whatwg] Adding alpha channel to input type=color

2009-08-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Max Romantschukm...@romantschuk.fi wrote: Victor Vasiliev wrote: I suggest to add a boolean attribute alpha to input type=color (disabled by default). If this attribute is present, the color well allows to set opacity value, and instead of sRGB, sends RGBA.

Re: [whatwg] brief question on 2.4.5 Dates and times

2009-08-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Silvia Pfeiffersilviapfeiff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the specification of Dates and times given in section 2.4.5. I was surprised to find that there is a specification of a valid month string, but not of a valid year string or a valid day

Re: [whatwg] Comments on the definition of a valid e-mail address

2009-08-24 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: The breakdown of the 202 is as follows. * Single trailing dot in domain part: 100 (prohibited by RFC but plausibly deliverable) Do these still have a normal TLD identifier before the trailing dot? Or are they just

Re: [whatwg] Comments on the definition of a valid e-mail address

2009-08-23 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
Thanks for doing this work, Aryeh! It's really awesome! On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: Beyond that, although it's safe to say that quoted-string or domain-literal or even entirely invalid addresses are extraordinarily rare, there are *some* real

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r3657 - [acgiow] (2) First cut at ARIA integration.

2009-08-22 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Simon Pieterssim...@opera.com wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:11:29 +0200, wha...@whatwg.org wrote: Author: ianh Date: 2009-08-21 18:11:28 -0700 (Fri, 21 Aug 2009) New Revision: 3657 Modified:   index   source Log: [acgiow] (2) First cut at ARIA

Re: [whatwg] Root WAI-ARIA node for HTML (was: Re: [html5] r3657 - [acgiow] (2) First cut at ARIA integration.)

2009-08-22 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Simon Pieterssim...@opera.com wrote: I think making elements in head visible and give them specific roles is not something authors would do, nor do I see any use case for doing so. However, making the ARIA root always be the document element seems simpler to

Re: [whatwg] 2.3 editorial: operators, operations, or ?

2009-08-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Elliotte Rusty Haroldelh...@ibiblio.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: This specification defines several comparison operators for strings. Really, operators? Is this

Re: [whatwg] A plan to enable Forms?

2009-08-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
2009/8/14 ~:'' ありがとうございました j.chetw...@btinternet.com: A plan to enable Forms? Does the SVG WG have a plan to enable Forms? what is the current status regarding sockets and SVG 1.2? regards ~: The popular SVG-native web browsers such as Opera, Mozilla and Webkit have not implemented

Re: [whatwg] Textarea wrap=off

2009-08-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: I can't load the full spec - it locks my browser - and I can't find any relevant text at

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 Script Tag

2009-08-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Cready, Jamesjcre...@rtcrm.com wrote: No elements in text/html can be self-closing. Except of course for the following: area base br col command embed hr input img link meta param and source And these obsolete elements still supported by legacy UAs: basefont

Re: [whatwg] Textarea wrap=off

2009-08-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, I'm stuck on 3.0.12 since 3.5 auto-crashes on load on my work computer.  ;_; For everyone concerned, it's been fixed now. It was a rogue DLL. Thanks to LDB for pointing me to the correct KB article, and

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 3.1-4.7

2009-08-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Anne van Kesterenann...@opera.com wrote: You seem to base most of your argument on that progress will not be stylable. I think the idea is that it will be stylable though. Yes, I

Re: [whatwg] A tag for measurements / quantity?

2009-08-11 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Max Romantschukm...@romantschuk.fi wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been off the list for quite some time, so bear with me if I missed something searching the archives. I've been looking at the meter element, which specifically states that There is no explicit way

Re: [whatwg] HTML5-warnings - request to publish as next heartbeat WD

2009-08-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Manu Spornymspo...@digitalbazaar.com wrote: I took some time this weekend to go through the HTML5 specification and write warning language for features that are currently either controversial or have long-standing bugs logged against them. It is important that

Re: [whatwg] Removing versioning from HTML

2009-08-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Aaron Boodmana...@google.com wrote: [If this has been discussed before, feel free to just point me there] I frequently see the comment on this list and in other forums that something is too late for HTML5, and therefore discussion should be deferred. I would

Re: [whatwg] Removing versioning from HTML

2009-08-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Aaron Boodmana...@google.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: A feature that is not widely supported is a feature we authors can't depend on.  If we're lucky, we can put in some extra effort to work around the

Re: [whatwg] Alt attribute for video and audio

2009-08-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Remcoremc...@gmail.com wrote: My search was indeed too quick. I stand corrected. Captions/subtitles seem like a very good idea for accessibility, but in addition to that I think that an alt attribute would still be appropriate for browsers that can't display

Re: [whatwg] Editorial: 1.9 DOCTYPE HTML

2009-08-06 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Elliotte Rusty Haroldelh...@ibiblio.org wrote: Section 1.9 uses this DOCTYPE twice: !DOCTYPE HTML Unless the intention is to demonstrate case-insensisitivity, which doesn't seem to be the case since that's not otherwise mentioned in this section, I think this

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 Script Tag

2009-08-06 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Cready, Jamesjcre...@rtcrm.com wrote: You make a great point. But whether or not you use the XML/XHTML syntax/ or the HTML 4 syntax doesn¹t matter much. Since like I showed in my previous example: the instant you specify a src attribute on your opening script

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 Script Tag

2009-08-06 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: script src is the way it is.  It's inconsistent, but that's how generations of browsers have worked.  Trying to change it in the way you suggest

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Elliotte Rusty Haroldelh...@ibiblio.org wrote: I note in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid-date-string that Dates before the year zero can't be represented as a datetime in this version of HTML. This seems a serious omission. Why can we

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sam Kupersam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2009/7/30 Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:05:10 +0100, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: I sure hope there are! Historians and classicists are increasingly publishing to the web, and being

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Sam Kupersam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2009/7/30 Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sam Kupersam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: Not for BCE; I'm not working on that period at the moment, but excepting that, here are a couple

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM, David Singersin...@apple.com wrote: At 11:16  -0500 30/07/09, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:   1) Machine readability. This begs the question. raises the question.  begging questions is assuming the answer in the premise of the question. I meant it in the sense

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Sam Kupersam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2009/7/30 Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Sam Kupersam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2009/7/30 Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sam Kupersam.ku

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Mike Shavermike.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Can the historical-timeline community perhaps work with a microformat for such things, so that we can standardize on the basis of experience using the technology in the field, rather than on speculative uses? I'd

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Dmitry Titovdim...@google.com wrote: I think I almost get this distinction :-) you are saying that HTML+JS could be made more powerful with new APIs, but only if it is done sufficiently far from the 'regular web page browsing' experience (or model). Say, if it

Re: [whatwg] Dates BCE

2009-07-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jim O'Donnellj...@eatyourgreens.org.uk wrote: I think Google News Timeline is worth mentioning here as an application which already does this http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ It

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-07-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Michael Kozakewichmkozakew...@icosidodecahedron.com wrote: From: Michael Davidson m...@google.com Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:24 PM Having some sort of desktop presence is important for parity with desktop apps. Perhaps the install UI could look and feel more

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-07-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Drew Wilsonatwil...@google.com wrote: My understanding (when I looked at Prism a while back) was that it was essentially no different than a desktop shortcut that ran the page in a separate profile. Has this changed? It runs a webpage in a separate process, in

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-07-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
As another data point, the aforementioned Jetpack addon for Firefox actually *does* run in a hidden page. about:jetpack is *always* present while the add-on is installed, but hidden if you haven't explicitly pointed a tab at that url. This doesn't allow it to persist outside of the browser, but

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-07-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Michael Davidsonm...@google.com wrote: Here's something that hidden pages can help with that this solution can't: Let's say you're watching ten stocks on Google Finance, each in their own window. Right now, each page has to have its own connection to the

Re: [whatwg] Security risks of persistent background content (Re: Installed Apps)

2009-07-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Robert O'Callahanrob...@ocallahan.org wrote: What happened to my idea for browsers to have a special window containing tabs for background apps, which save screen real estate by just showing an icon and title (and a URL or domain?) and no actual tab content? You

Re: [whatwg] Selectable category tree, nested optgroups?

2009-07-24 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
2009/7/9 Oldřich Vetešník vetes...@mrmil.cz: Hi, Imagine you have a (for example) category tree like this: * Cars  * Sporty  * Limo    * 18 wheeler  * Bloody good  * Big * Places to live in  * Villa  * Flat  * Under bridge ... and you are to select one for your article of some

Re: [whatwg] Images whose contents are not known In such cases, the alt attribute's value may be omitted...

2009-07-24 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:07 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: I object. For reference, Darxus is referring to http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/embedded-content-0.html#unknown-images. Now, care to clarify? A two-word objection is essentially useless for anyone, and

Re: [whatwg] A New Way Forward for HTML5

2009-07-23 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Manu Spornymspo...@digitalbazaar.com wrote: By halting the XHTML2 work and announcing more resources for the HTML5 project, the World Wide Web Consortium has sent a clear signal on the future markup language for the Web: it will be HTML5. Unfortunately, the

Re: [whatwg] Idea: Links w/o end anchors (is possible)

2009-07-22 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:02 AM, ppjp...@concept67.net wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:50:33AM -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 07/22, ppj wrote: e.g. a href='...' search='...'link text/a I've wished for this a number of times, but I think I would be more interested in the spec

Re: [whatwg] Idea: Links w/o end anchors (is possible)

2009-07-22 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Julian Reschkejulian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: ... It would be relatively simple to expose a UI that allows one to point at some text and automatically generate an XPointer to the element containing that text.  Assuming that you could

Re: [whatwg] Create my own DTD and specify in DOCTYPE? Re: Validation

2009-07-21 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Am I correct in concluding that my best option is to create my own HTML5 DTD, and use a DOCTYPE along the lines of: !DOCTYPE html SYSTEM http://www.chaosreigns.com/DTD/html5.dtd; ? Can the HTML5 spec be modified slightly to say

Re: [whatwg] Create my own DTD and specify in DOCTYPE? Re: Validation

2009-07-21 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:02 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 07/21, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: HTML5 is not an SGML or XML language.  It does not use a DOCTYPE in I thought HTML5 conformed to XML? Nope. HTML5 offers an XML serialization, but it is not an XML language. any way

Re: [whatwg] Create my own DTD and specify in DOCTYPE? Re: Validation

2009-07-21 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:10 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 07/21, Eduard Pascual wrote: in your body and there you go. Your validator should be made aware of what is supported on each subset you are using, and you will be able to squeeze the most from each browser you whish to support,

Re: [whatwg] input type=tel validation, and a small set of typos

2009-07-20 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote: Two unrelated comments. First, it seems a bit odd to me that input type=email and input type=url are validated (for typeMismatch problems) but input type=tel isn't.  I know it's prohibitively difficult to perfectly

Re: [whatwg] Captions, Subtitles and the Video Element

2009-07-17 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Jeff Walden wrote: (For the few authors who really want to go crazy, they can already overlap HTML onto theirvideo and do whatever crazy stuff they want to do.) By way of a use case for at least color

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskoppnils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Where is legend element styling lacking currently ? The element can't be styled in either Firefox 3.5 or

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiakm...@apple.com wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: We can do

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Robert O'Callahanrob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: For the current model, note that all the text says is should not show this content to the user.  While this is not defined anywhere, it doesn't

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Philip Jägenstedtphil...@opera.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:32:44 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: source elements, change step 3 so that whenever any of those conditions are met, if the source has @fallback the algorithm aborts

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-14 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Simon Pieterssim...@opera.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:51:42 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: How do y'all currently handle noscript content in a context that allows scripts?  What if there was a video or object in the noscript

Re: [whatwg] hash sum tags of binary files and code blocks?

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Aron Spohra...@aspohr.de wrote: Hi Christian, have you ever considered just making the md5 (or maybe just a shorter CRC) part of the filename of the file you want to cache? Then you can send Expiry headers for 6 months or a years time for those files and

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Boris Zbarskybzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: It would have to be part of the resource selection algorithm. Since that waits for new source elements indefinitely, when exactly would you decide to switch to fallback content? Bad solutions

Re: [whatwg] Browser Bundled Javascript Repository

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how useful this would actually be, though.  Are there really *so* many sites using the *exact* same version of jQuery or any other single library? Yes there are. jQuery doesn't put out very many updates,

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Philip Jägenstedtphil...@opera.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:38:11 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Boris Zbarskybzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: It would have to be part of the resource

Re: [whatwg] Browser Bundled Javascript Repository

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Yes there are.  jQuery doesn't put out very many updates, and I don't think most people alter their jQuery file. It's only one file, not

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Philip Jägenstedtphil...@opera.com wrote: I thought you meant video  source fallback    fallback content here  /source /video I would prefer if fallback content and source elements weren't mixed on the same level, but maybe that's just me. Eh, fallback

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jonas Sickingjo...@sicking.cc wrote: This way even incremental rendering of the fallback contents would work fine. The only case that's weird is markup like: video  lots and lots of fallback here  source src=... /video There is a risk that content would be

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-07-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Brian Campbellbrian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu wrote: On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:53 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: I don't really understand what problem this is solving. HTML4 actually defined cite more like what you describe above; we changed it to be a title of work

Re: [whatwg] About the video codec supported in HTML5

2009-07-07 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:37 AM, SA Alfonso Baqueiroabaque...@gmail.com wrote: In the lack of agreement. Instead of removing the video section from the spec, we should be DEMOCRATIC, the codec that more vendors support should get in the spec, like the goverments are elected. Unfortunately,

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