[whatwg] Mail list subscription

2006-11-03 Thread Elliotte Harold
It would be nice if I could send a comment without having to subscribe to the mailing list first. Many people may notice one or two small issues but not want to participate in day-to-day discussions. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published!

[whatwg] 9.2.2: replacement characters. How many?

2006-11-03 Thread Elliotte Harold
Section 9.2.2 of the current Web Apps 1.0 draft states: Bytes or sequences of bytes in the original byte stream that could not be converted to Unicode characters must be converted to U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER code points. I'm concerned about the or. For example, suppose there are six

Re: [whatwg] Mail list subscription

2006-11-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Elliotte Harold wrote: It would be nice if I could send a comment without having to subscribe to the mailing list first. Many people may notice one or two small issues but not want to participate in day-to-day discussions. There are several options for people in that situation. 1. Subscribe

[whatwg] JSON encoding

2006-11-03 Thread Douglas Crockford
I think the hazard is very real and very serious. I don't see any additional expressiveness enabled by toJSONString. No one is more concerned about the security of the platform than I am. There isn't a security issue here. The hazard, if there is one, is certainly not serious. This is a

Re: [whatwg] JSON encoding

2006-11-03 Thread Dean Edwards
Douglas Crockford wrote: I think the hazard is very real and very serious. I don't see any additional expressiveness enabled by toJSONString. No one is more concerned about the security of the platform than I am. There isn't a security issue here. The hazard, if there is one, is certainly

Re: [whatwg] JSON encoding

2006-11-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Douglas Crockford wrote: I think the hazard is very real and very serious. I don't see any additional expressiveness enabled by toJSONString. This is a convenience issue. Having toJSONString as a builtin is a convenience, removing the need to load json.js. How is toJSONString() any

Re: [whatwg] JSON encoding

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Douglas Crockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [whatwg] JSON encoding | Douglas Crockford wrote: | I think the hazard is very real and very serious. | I

[whatwg] Probable typo in section 5.2.2.

2006-11-03 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
In section 5.2.2., `chickenkïwi.soup' (with diaeresis) appears twice (once encoded as chickenk%C3%AFwi.soup), as does `chickenkiwi.soup' (without diaeresis). -- Øistein E. Andersen

Re: [whatwg] img element comments

2006-11-03 Thread Matthew Raymond
Michel Fortin wrote: Except that, contrary to bgcolor, the height and width attributes can help solve a real problem: page jiggling while the images loads. It's somewhat like the type=image/jpg attribute you can set for links: it gives advance information on what the external content is

Re: [whatwg] Mail list subscription

2006-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote: It would be nice if I could send a comment without having to subscribe to the mailing list first. Many people may notice one or two small issues but not want to participate in day-to-day discussions. On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: There

Re: [whatwg] The problems with namespaces in text/html (Was: MathML-in-HTML5)

2006-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, dolphinling wrote: I'm not saying don't add MathML to HTML. I'm saying don't add namespace syntax to HTML. Is this feasible? As much as I'd like this for ease of use, at some point or other when enough things have been added to html, there will be conflicts.

Re: [whatwg] JSON encoding

2006-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
(I couldn't work out what thread this was a continuation to -- the first message below didn't have a Re: in the subject line, and I can't find any other thread that used the word hazard. So I don't know exactly what this thread was about. However, I shall not let that stop me from jumping in