Re: [whatwg] Comments and questions on Web Apps 1.0

2006-03-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mar 17, 2006, at 18:48, fantasai wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: 2.4.5. To set metadata with meta elements, authors must first specify a profile that defines metadata names, using the profile attribute. In my opinion, it would be useful to predefine the traditional names and Dublin Core.

Re: [whatwg] JSONRequest

2006-03-20 Thread Gervase Markham
Douglas Crockford wrote: The JSONRequest does only one thing: snip Are you planning to take the excellent advice from I forget who to change the name? The name XmlHttpRequest sucks because it doesn't necessarily return XML, and it doesn't have to be over HTTP. Let's not tie the name of a new

[whatwg] More comments and questions on Web Apps 1.0

2006-03-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
Based on the 2006-02-24 version. 1.14.1. The style and script elements in XHTML have a potentially anything goes content model. Would it be appropriate for a conformance checker to only pass style and script types it knows about (with the proper content model for each type)? 2.14.1.1.

Re: [whatwg] JSONRequest

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Gervase Markham wrote: Douglas Crockford wrote: The JSONRequest does only one thing: snip Are you planning to take the excellent advice from I forget who to change the name? That was me. Nice to see I'm quite memorable :-) The name XmlHttpRequest sucks because it doesn't necessarily

[whatwg] basefont

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Hi, I'm just wondering how you're intending to deal with basefont? AFAIK, the only browser that supports it these days is IE, but it does so by breaking the DOM (I could be mistaken, but I think NN4 supported it too). Considering that no other modern browser supports it and that IE's DOM

Re: [whatwg] JSONRequest

2006-03-20 Thread Jim Ley
On 3/20/06, Douglas Crockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or indeed wrote your script before this JSONRequest was invented. I think I see where you are confused. A pre-JSONRequest JSON application will be using GET, or POST with a conventional POST body. What exactly is a conventional POST

[whatwg] Error in WebApps spec, chapter 6.1.1.4 Colours and styles

2006-03-20 Thread Jens Bannmann
If the value has alpha less than 1.0, then the value must instead be returned in the CSS rgba() functional-notation format: the literal string rgba (U+0072 U+0067 U+0062 U+0061) followed by a U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS, a base-ten integer in the range 0-255 representing the red component (using

[whatwg] Still more comments and questions on Web Apps 1.0

2006-03-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
Based on the 2006-02-24 version. 5.1.1. I think the spec should suggest shift-return as the key combo for inserting a line separator to make it even more clear that plain return should break the block. 5.1.1. (Updating the default* DOM attributes causes content attributs to be updated as

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] type=number and leading zeros

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: Spec doesn't disallow submitting leading zeros for input type=number values but I know a developer who apparently thinks it should. Is it against the idea of input type=number to send leading zeros if the users type them? The format the user

Re: [whatwg] Status bars and progress indicators

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote: If UAs don't already return alternate text of child elements as part of textContent, I suggest filing bugs on those UAs. I see nothing in the DOM 3 spec saying they shouldn't, and not to do so seems to breach the spirit of the HTML spec. But

[whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/gauge Unfortunately, the study Google did on Web authors showed that authors cannot spell the word language, and I see no reason to believe that they might spell gauge either. Also, I've typoed the word gauge three times so far in

Re: [whatwg] JSONRequest

2006-03-20 Thread Jim Ley
On 3/21/06, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Holland wrote: That's where the extra HTTP header would come-in: X-Allow-Foreign-Hosts: Forcing developers who expose such a service, to make the conscious choice to expose data to the world, what Jim refers to as OPT-IN. I

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Hickson wrote: So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/gauge Unfortunately, the study Google did on Web authors showed that authors cannot spell the word language, and I see no reason to believe that they might spell gauge either. But unlike the almost entirely

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/gauge Unfortunately, the study Google did on Web authors showed that authors cannot spell the word language, and I see no reason to believe that they might

Re: [whatwg] Status bars and progress indicators

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, fantasai wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: In all of these cases, there are at most three segments: low, medium, and high, and in fact in all cases you could get away with having at most two segments (i.e. just having a low or high marker). mmm, I've seen a *lot* of