Re: [whatwg] Browser Signature Standards Proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Anders Rundgren
Digital signatures is as you say just a variation of authentication. The things that the DS people wants to add are: - A process that differs from authentication from the user's point of view - A persistent trace of the authenticated operation. This is what the signature adds to the picture.

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] 3.10.9. The |abbr| element

2006-11-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Nov 2, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Worent wrote: --- Christoph Päper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off I think the requirement for a |title| is too strict, because there are time and space saving abbreviations everyone knows -- i.e. either their expansion or their meaning -- that do not

Re: [whatwg] Browser Signature Standards Proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2006-11-02 15:23 +0600: On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:27:33 +0600, Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - A process that differs from authentication from the user's point of view This is a problem of browser UI design, not of web standards. What do you

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] 3.10.9. The |abbr| element

2006-11-02 Thread James Graham
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the reader to understand the content, not just because the word happens to be an abbreviation. I agree, unless using abbr with no title is useful to get the correct rendering of abbreviations in non-visual

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] 3.10.9. The |abbr| element

2006-11-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
James Graham wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the reader to understand the content, not just because the word happens to be an abbreviation. I agree, unless using abbr with no title is useful to get the correct rendering of

Re: [whatwg] Form Control Group Labels

2006-11-02 Thread Matthew Raymond
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: Example: | p | label group=genderGender:/label | | label for=m | input type=radio id=m name=gender value=m | Male | /label | | label for=f | input type=radio id=f name=gender value=f | Female | /label | /p I

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Ted Goddard
On 2-Nov-06, at 4:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: FYI: The list for raising issues on XMLHttpRequest is public- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I'll bring up the topic there as well. Changing the policy on browser connection limits is lightweight enough, though, that whatwg could be very

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Ted Goddard
On 2-Nov-06, at 5:05 AM, Dave Raggett wrote: well how about an XMLBEEPRequest specification then? Beep is kind of like a bidirectional version of HTTP and includes multiplexing capabilities with stream prioritization, see: http://beepcore.org/index.html Beep isn't in widespread use

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] 3.10.9. The |abbr| element

2006-11-02 Thread Jonathan Worent
I can see what everyones reasoning for not requiring the title (I change my vote :) --- Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Graham wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the reader to understand the content, not just because

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest connection limit

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Enright
Although the XMLHttpRequest has the capability of making a DOM available from the resulting text, the client and server don't have to make use of it. One could take the responseText and pass it to eval() if the other end sent JSON. A BEEP API should support any valid use of BEEP, just as

Re: [whatwg] Progressive rendering

2006-11-02 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:06:31 +0600, Kornel Lesinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking that footnotes would be flowed independently of normal content. Browser would flow normal content from the top of the page, and flow footnotes from the bottom of the page at the same time. Break when

Re: [whatwg] Browser Signature Standards Proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:55:54 +0600, Michael(tm) Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a problem of browser UI design, not of web standards. What do you expect might happen when N different browser vendors each go off on their own and, working in isolation from one another, independently