Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Inline pronounce element (Tab Atkins Jr.)

2014-06-04 Thread Brett Zamir

On 6/5/2014 3:05 AM, whatwg-requ...@lists.whatwg.org wrote:
  
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Daniel Morris

daniel+wha...@honestempire.com wrote:

Hello,

With existing assistive technology such as screen readers, and more
recently the pervasiveness of new technologies such as Siri and Google
Now to name two examples, I have been thinking about the
appropriateness and potential of having a way to represent the
pronunciation of words on a web page.

There is currently no other text-level semantic that I know of for
pronunciation, but we have elements for abbreviation and definition.

As an initial suggestion:

pronounce ipa=??a?p?d?iPad/pronounce

(Where the `ipa` attribute is the pronunciation using the
International Phonetic Alphabet.)

What are your thoughts on this, or does something already exist that I
am not aware of?

This is already theoretically addressed by link rel=pronunciation,
linking to a well-defined pronunciation file format.  Nobody
implements that, but nobody implements anything new either, of course.

~TJ


I think it'd be a lot easier for sites, say along the lines of 
Wikipedia, to support inline markup to allow users to get a word 
referenced at the beginning of an article, for example, pronounced 
accurately.


Brett



[whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Matthew Noorenberghe
Hello,

Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL 
attribute[1]? Both input[2] and textarea[3] have it so there is currently 
inconsistency.

Thanks,
Matthew Noorenberghe

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-select-element
[2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-input-element
[3] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element


Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Luis Farzati
I would like to insist on the datalist proposition I posted on this list
(didn't caught any interest, though).

A datalist for select would enable to have the contents of a select defined
externally, and would also enable the reuse of this data.

I don't see why datalist can be applied to an input and not to a select.

Cheers,
Luis


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Noorenberghe 
mattn+wha...@mozilla.com wrote:

 Hello,

 Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL
 attribute[1]? Both input[2] and textarea[3] have it so there is
 currently inconsistency.

 Thanks,
 Matthew Noorenberghe

 [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-select-element
 [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-input-element
 [3]
 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element



Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Matthew Noorenberghe wrote:
 
 Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL 
 attribute? Both input and textarea have it so there is currently 
 inconsistency.

Woops. Totally an oversight on my part. When I added autocomplete to 
select recently, I forgot to fix that.

Fixed. Thanks.


On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Luis Farzati wrote:

 I would like to insist on the datalist proposition I posted on this list 
 (didn't caught any interest, though).
 
 A datalist for select would enable to have the contents of a select 
 defined externally, and would also enable the reuse of this data.
 
 I don't see why datalist can be applied to an input and not to a select.

Don't worry, your e-mail is in the queue! Requests for features tend to 
take a bit longer for me to deal with than simple bug reports, though.


On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Dan Beam wrote:
 
 It'd be nice to avoid more attribute accessors (and encourage authors to 
 use getAttribute() instead), but if input and textarea have them we 
 should probably be consistent.

Can you elaborate on the cost of attribute accessors?

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Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Dan Beam
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
 On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Matthew Noorenberghe wrote:

 Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL
 attribute? Both input and textarea have it so there is currently
 inconsistency.

 Woops. Totally an oversight on my part. When I added autocomplete to
 select recently, I forgot to fix that.

 Fixed. Thanks.


 On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Luis Farzati wrote:

 I would like to insist on the datalist proposition I posted on this list
 (didn't caught any interest, though).

 A datalist for select would enable to have the contents of a select
 defined externally, and would also enable the reuse of this data.

 I don't see why datalist can be applied to an input and not to a select.

 Don't worry, your e-mail is in the queue! Requests for features tend to
 take a bit longer for me to deal with than simple bug reports, though.


 On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Dan Beam wrote:

 It'd be nice to avoid more attribute accessors (and encourage authors to
 use getAttribute() instead), but if input and textarea have them we
 should probably be consistent.

 Can you elaborate on the cost of attribute accessors?

Namespace exhaustion (maybe form.autocomplete() would've worked
instead of requestAutocomplete() if autocomplete= hadn't taken it?),
multiple ways to do things (vs getAttribute), longer
specs/IDLs/compile times.

--
Dan Beam
db...@chromium.org


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Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Dan Beam wrote:
  On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Dan Beam wrote:
 
  It'd be nice to avoid more attribute accessors (and encourage authors 
  to use getAttribute() instead), but if input and textarea have 
  them we should probably be consistent.
 
  Can you elaborate on the cost of attribute accessors?
 
 Namespace exhaustion (maybe form.autocomplete() would've worked instead 
 of requestAutocomplete() if autocomplete= hadn't taken it?)

I think it would have been very confusing to have a method with the same 
name as a content attribute.


 multiple ways to do things (vs getAttribute)

Well sure, but isn't the IDL attribute a lot cleaner-looking?


 longer specs/IDLs/compile times.

Surely authors' needs outweigh these.

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http://ln.hixie.ch/   U+263A/,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'