Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 10 nov. 2006 à 19:16, Ian Hickson a écrit : The difference is that will never work, because of things like this: ...A... ... ...which, for legacy compatibility reasons, must result in a DOM where the text with "A" ends

Re: [whatwg] s/A tfoot element/Zero or one tfoot elements/

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Point six from the list of the table element's required children[1]: > > A tfoot element, if there are no other tfoot elements in the table. > > ...should be, I think: > > Zero or one tfoot elements, if there are no other tfoot elements in the >

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Michel Fortin wrote: > > And today's browsers also have problems with outside a table, > which implies that my previously proposed markup for this: > > > caption text > ... figure content here ... > > > would not work correctly in today's browsers. Bu

[whatwg] s/A tfoot element/Zero or one tfoot elements/

2006-11-10 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, Point six from the list of the table element's required children[1]: A tfoot element, if there are no other tfoot elements in the table. ...should be, I think: Zero or one tfoot elements, if there are no other tfoot elements in the table. Otherwise I read it like there must be a tfo

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 10 nov. 2006 à 14:19, Alexey Feldgendler a écrit : On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:47:05 +0600, Steve Runyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Couldn't we extend the element to work for images as well as form elements? The for attribute would provide the explicit link to the image that would take th

Re: [whatwg] Relationship to Charmod and Charmod Norm

2006-11-10 Thread François Yergeau
Henri Sivonen a écrit : WF 2.0 says: "Implementations and documents must comply to the W3C Character Model specification. [CHARMOD]" WA 1.0 says no such thing. Is that intentional? I hope not! Does C003 in Charmod outlaw bdo? Nope. bdo is simply an assertion by the author that the presen

Re: [whatwg] hash Attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Hickson
Regarding the idea of a hashing feature for downloads: * I don't see why this idea should be in HTML rather than doing it the way that the many, many existing solutions do it. * I don't see why this idea would work anyway. All the proposed UIs have obvious and fatal flaws. Both of the

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:47:05 +0600, Steve Runyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Couldn't we extend the element to work for images as well as form elements? The for attribute would provide the explicit link to the image that would take the label's contents out-of-stream for screen readers, and

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Dan Brickley
Elliotte Harold wrote: Jeff Seager wrote: A better way would be to semantically attach the caption or cutline to the image itself, so its display is paired naturally. In this way, the width of the cutline would be dictated (unless overruled in the stylesheet) by the width of the image. I'm su

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Nov 10, 2006, at 02:12, fantasai wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: On Oct 27, 2006, at 16:21, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:17:16 +0200, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's fine for document conformance, but what about how browsers will handle it? Is the spec stil

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Steve Runyon
Hi all,   I'm brand new to the list, so apologies if this idea has already been discussed or I'm missing the point   Couldn't we extend the element to work for images as well as form elements?  The for attribute would provide the explicit link to the image that would take the label's contents

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread James Graham
Elliotte Harold wrote: Given that, I suspect we're probably better off just using regular paragraphs in text with appropriate CSS instructions rather than introducing a new element. I strongly disagree. The caption is intrinsically linked to the image and, by making this relationship explici

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:57:19 +0600, Jeff Seager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A better way would be to semantically attach the caption or cutline to the image itself, so its display is paired naturally. In this way, the width of the cutline would be dictated (unless overruled in the stylesheet) b

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Elliotte Harold
Jeff Seager wrote: A better way would be to semantically attach the caption or cutline to the image itself, so its display is paired naturally. In this way, the width of the cutline would be dictated (unless overruled in the stylesheet) by the width of the image. I'm suggesting that CAPTION be

Re: [whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread James Graham
Jeff Seager wrote: What's clearly missing from the IMG specification is an appropriate means for pairing each picture or graphic with a caption. Neither ALT nor LONGDESC is appropriate for this. My current solution, borrowed from Darren Brierton of Vancouver ( http://www.dzr-web.com/people/da

[whatwg] Tracking Web Applications 1.0

2006-11-10 Thread Anne van Kesteren
I finally got around making the following simple tool: http://html5.org/tools/specification-diff It's a small Python script that lets you generate unix diffs of Web Applications 1.0. There's a form where you can enter two numbers. An example would be: http://html5.org/tools/specification-

Re: [whatwg] hash Attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Gervase Markham
Ian Hickson wrote: "The file you have downloaded has been corrupted or tampered with." "It works when I use IE but when I use Camari, it says that the file has been corrupted." "Oh man, I'm not using Camari then! I don't need my music to get corrupted!" Yes, yes. I don't think it's impossibl

Re: [whatwg] hash Attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Gervase Markham
XcomCoolDude wrote: How about a hash attribute for all elements that link to external files (a, img, etc.)? It would allow you to pass an MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, or other hash to a user-agent for automatic comparison with the linked file. A related proposal is: http://www.gerv.net/security/link

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread fantasai
Michel Fortin wrote: Sometime, presentational information is needed to display a document correctly, and in those few cases where the presentation is tied to the content, I think it belongs in the markup. The align attribute, when used on table cells, covers one of those cases. I think that

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread fantasai
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Oct 27, 2006, at 16:21, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:17:16 +0200, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's fine for document conformance, but what about how browsers will handle it? Is the spec still going to require browsers to render overlap

Re: [whatwg] hash Attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Gervase Markham wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > If the idea is that UAs that implement this would stop you from using the > > file if the checksum didn't match, then this would just cause users to use > > browsers _without_ this feature to download files, since those browsers >

Re: [whatwg] Progressive rendering

2006-11-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Nov 6, 2006, at 15:44, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:32:55 +0600, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not only about printing-while-downloading. It's about the ability to print an arbitrarily long document without consuming infinite memory for DOM. What k

[whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Jeff Seager
Title: The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute In response to the standards now being considered, I'm in favor of allowing percentages for the WIDTH attribute. In my own work, I've tried first to create a flexible layout that is (in roughly equal parts) semantically correct, scalable a

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Nov 9, 2006, at 17:19, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:18:46 +0600, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you mean moving all TFOOTs after TBODYs, so that the HTML 4.01 placement would be forbidden? TFOOT should be allowed before TBODY because it helps progessive

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread fantasai
Lachlan Hunt wrote: scope="" will probably only be allowed for THs. Maybe it should be REQUIRED for THs that aren't in obvious locations (first row, first column, or whatever). Maybe. I think the spec should explicitly define how to determine which header cells are associated with each cel

Re: [whatwg] element: downloading a resource

2006-11-10 Thread Shadow2531
On 11/7/06, Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:39:56 +0600, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The definition of downloading a resource must be clear that even if the > resource does not need to be downloaded (because it has been cached or > somethin

[whatwg] Relationship to Charmod and Charmod Norm

2006-11-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
WF 2.0 says: "Implementations and documents must comply to the W3C Character Model specification. [CHARMOD]" WA 1.0 says no such thing. Is that intentional? Does C003 in Charmod outlaw bdo? (C013 is enforceable. So is C023.) (C001, C002, C054 and C076 are not machine-enforceable as far as I

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Nov 9, 2006, at 13:18, Henri Sivonen wrote: Not deployed yet. The table integrity checker is now part of all (X)HTML presets at http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/ There's a pseudo-schema called http://hsivonen.iki.fi/checkers/table/ which isn't a schema but a magic URL that causes the sys

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-11-10 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:36:20 +0600, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Do you mean moving all TFOOTs after TBODYs, so that the HTML 4.01 >>> placement would be forbidden? >> TFOOT should be allowed before TBODY because it helps progessive >> rendering on paged media. I'm not sure if it

Re: [whatwg] hash Attribute

2006-11-10 Thread Gervase Markham
Ian Hickson wrote: If the idea is that UAs that implement this would stop you from using the file if the checksum didn't match, then this would just cause users to use browsers _without_ this feature to download files, since those browsers wouldn't complain about data corruption. "It works when

Re: [whatwg] hash Attribute

2006-11-10 Thread XcomCoolDude
Michel: Actually, hash is the proper term. Checksums are much simpler, and are used only for checking against accidental modifications, whereas cryptographic hash functions are used to protect against malicious tampering. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum.Ian: I imagine most user-agents wou

Re: [whatwg] Progressive rendering

2006-11-10 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:57:41 +0600, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> TeX uses repeated passes over a long document to handle cross- >> references properly using limited memory. It would be useful if >> HTML allowed something like that. > I see streaming bounded-memory operation and mul