Re: [whatwg] Canvas lack of drawString method

2006-10-18 Thread Stefan Haustein
Hi Andrew, I agree that the structure of your proposal is better, the Font object is not really needed. However, I think getAscent() is not sufficient, we should also add getLeading() and getDescent(): This would allow us to determine the total line height (leading+ascent+descent) and the

[whatwg] IRIs and javascript: scheme

2006-10-18 Thread Christian Schmidt
Most modern browsers support the following: a href=javascript:alert(123)foo/a AFAICS javascript:alert(123) is not a valid IRI according to RFC 3987 (it should be javascript:alert%28123%29 instead) and is thus not allowed in an input type=url field. This is somewhat surprising to me, and I

Re: [whatwg] IRIs and javascript: scheme

2006-10-18 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Christian Schmidt wrote: AFAICS javascript:alert(123) is not a valid IRI according to RFC 3987 (it should be javascript:alert%28123%29 instead) and is thus not allowed in an input type=url field. You are mistaken. This is somewhat surprising to me, and I think it will confuse users that they

Re: [whatwg] Canvas lack of drawString method

2006-10-18 Thread Gervase Markham
Alfonso Baqueiro wrote: The canvas component is very promising, but the lack of drawString method could be a great error for its success, this lack is a huge limitation, how could you resolve this problem? I've suggested this in the past as a solution to this problem: why not have a

Re: [whatwg] Canvas lack of drawString method

2006-10-18 Thread Mathieu Henri
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:52:35 +0200, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alfonso Baqueiro wrote: The canvas component is very promising, but the lack of drawString method could be a great error for its success, this lack is a huge limitation, how could you resolve this problem? I've

[whatwg] Comments/Questions on WebApps Drag and Drop API

2006-10-18 Thread Neil Deakin
Some comments and questions: 5.5.1 Is the DragEvent supposed to inherit from Event? Wouldn't at least UIEvent be more reasonable? I'm not familiar with accessibility for drag and drop. Do platforms actually have a means of performing drag and drop that aren't mapped to mouse events? The