Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-22 Thread White Lynx
Michel Fortin wrote: I know that. But special parsing rules, just as new CSS properties, need changes to happen in the browser. If someone is going to improve the browser, it'd be much better to improve the presentational layer with a few reusable CSS rules than to add a collection of

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-22 Thread White Lynx
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: border-character isn't going to work. When scaled non-proportionally, characters get ugly, with horizontal elements getting thick. The { and } characters will suffer the most from this. TeX applies custom logic to stretchy braces, and I think we shouldn't try

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-22 Thread James Graham
Michel Fortin wrote: Le 20 juin 2006 à 6:53, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : I would also like to see a complete description of the CSS extensions required for real high-quality rendering. I can't claim this is complete, but two ideas come to my mind right now: [4 suggestions] Also, as far as

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-22 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 22 juin 2006 à 3:52, White Lynx a écrit : Adding CSS extensions makes sense, but I fear it could take infinite time, therefore it is better to keep markup within XML/CSS2.1 framework so we could start using it today and then gradually improve situations on CSS side. It will surely

[whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
Based on the fedback recently received about how to do spellchecking in HTML, here's a second proposal that uses an attribute to control it. Comments? (Don't worry about typos and other such minor mistakes.) AUTHOR REQUIREMENTS textarea and input elements may have a new attribute specified,

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, David Hyatt wrote: If the user wants spell checking on in all textareas, then it should be on, regardless of what the page says. I don't think the page should be allowed to override spell checking rules, since this is really a user decision. Agreed; the spec is written

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread David Hyatt
If the user wants spell checking on in all textareas, then it should be on, regardless of what the page says. I don't think the page should be allowed to override spell checking rules, since this is really a user decision. For example, I know how to spell, so I don't want spell checking

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, David Hyatt wrote: The only time spell checking matters is when the user is the one creating the content (not the author). It doesn't make any sense to spell check non-editable content that the user didn't even create. If the content is editable, then spell checking

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread David Hyatt
The only time spell checking matters is when the user is the one creating the content (not the author). It doesn't make any sense to spell check non-editable content that the user didn't even create. If the content is editable, then spell checking should just be left up to the preference

[whatwg] [canvas] globalCompositeOperation poorly defined

2006-06-22 Thread L. David Baron
The values of globalCompositeOperation are very poorly defined: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#globalcompositeoperation Some math is probably needed; prose alone seems unlikely to be sufficient. I made a quick test at: http://dbaron.org/tests/canvas/composite-operations

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Hickson wrote: textarea and input elements may have a new attribute specified, spellcheck. If specified, it must have either the value on or the value off (exactly, case-sensitive). The on value indicates that spellchecking is to be enabled, the off value indicates that spellchecking is to

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] globalCompositeOperation poorly defined

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, L. David Baron wrote: The values of globalCompositeOperation are very poorly defined: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#globalcompositeoperation Some math is probably needed; prose alone seems unlikely to be sufficient. I agree; indeed I think there's