Re: [whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

2007-04-02 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
[Mike, you are making the communication more difficult by changing the Subject header without a good reason. Doing so fragments the discussion, makes it harder for people to keep track of what is said in relation to what. I'm changing the Subject back to what it was.] At 00:13 -0400 UTC, on

Re: [whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

2007-04-02 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 19:30 +0200 UTC, on 2007-04-01, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:16:12 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who are we (as spec definers) to decide that x is the only correct behaviour or presentation? And why should we want to stifle innovation by requiring

Re: [whatwg] innerHTML in HTML documents with multiple namespaces

2007-04-02 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:39:05 +0200, Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, what should document.body.innerHTML end with after this script: var svg_svg = document.createElementNS(http://www.w3.org/2000/svg;, svg:svg); document.body.appendChild(svg_svg); As long as the

Re: [whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

2007-04-02 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:35:02 +0200, Kempen, E.J.F. van [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly are you looking for? Defining that 'normal' text is black by default and links are blue-ish? Because that's done already, most default styles are uniformly, but maybe informally, defined. Where?

Re: [whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

2007-04-02 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:54:04 +0200, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default style of hr, p, table, et cetera. Speaking of hr, having a default style for it would increase interoperability (if only in the presentation layer) a great deal. Defining what a hr *is* in terms

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Gervase Markham
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Reasons Apple would like MPEG4 + H.264 + AAC to be the preferred codec stack -- - We already need to support these for video production and consumer electronics (so no extra patent cost to us) I don't understand this point. There's no extra patent cost in

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Gervase Markham
Gervase Markham wrote: I'll let others comment on this. But I would note that JPEG2000 is technically superior to JPEG, but hasn't been widely implemented due to patent issues. Correction: in part due to patent issues. The problem is not that it's $5 million, it's that the amount is unknown

Re: [whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas Broyer
2007/4/2, Asbjørn Ulsberg: That translation already leads to a plethora of different results, CSS-wise. Is the whitespace around a p margin or padding? According to http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/sample.html this is margin. What is the default style of li elements? Do they have outside or inside

[whatwg] footer that is not at the foot

2007-04-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
The spec should probably mention that the name footer doesn't imply being placed at the end. For example, if at http://www.helsinki.fi/~rkosken/kirjallisuus/ hc.html the text at bottom right qualified as a footer, surely the text at top right would qualify as well. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 2, 2007, at 5:03 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Reasons Apple would like MPEG4 + H.264 + AAC to be the preferred codec stack -- - We already need to support these for video production and consumer electronics (so no extra patent cost to us) I don't

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:12:07AM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I don't think Theora (or Dirac) are inherently more interoperable than other codecs. There's only one implementation of each so far, so there's actually less proof of this than for other codecs. Just to clarify, there are

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 2, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Maik Merten wrote: Maciej Stachowiak schrieb: It's not immediately clear to me that a Mozilla license would not cover redistribution, for instance the license fees paid by OS vendors generally cover redistribution when the OS is bundled with a PC. I think

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Maik Merten
Maciej Stachowiak schrieb: Mozilla can also be compiled and distributed by third parties. E.g. Debian distributes a slightly modified version of Firefox as Iceweasel AFAIK. They wouldn't be covered by a license Mozilla buys. This may be the case, but it is not immediately obvious to me.

Re: [whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

2007-04-02 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:05:19 +0200, Nicholas Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With CSS2.1, how would you style the button you get from an input type=file for instance? I don't know about other UAs, but in Safari one would use the selector: input[type=file]::-webkit-file-upload-button My

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 2, 2007, at 21:12, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Let me add other reasons why Mozilla (for whom, again, I am not speaking) might want to specify Theora/Dirac: - They have a strong commitment to interoperability I don't think Theora (or Dirac) are inherently more interoperable than

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Singer
At 23:07 +0300 2/04/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: Some implementations only support AVC level up to a magic level that you have to know. are you telling us that all implementations of Ogg and Theora can play audio and video up to any bitrate, screensize, channel count etc., without dropping

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Maik Merten
Dave Singer schrieb: are you telling us that all implementations of Ogg and Theora can play audio and video up to any bitrate, screensize, channel count etc., without dropping frames, getting behind, decoding badly, or other limits? That would be quite an achievement...more impressive than

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 2, 2007, at 23:13, Dave Singer wrote: At 23:07 +0300 2/04/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: Some implementations only support AVC level up to a magic level that you have to know. are you telling us that all implementations of Ogg and Theora can play audio and video up to any bitrate,

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Singer
At 22:27 +0200 2/04/07, Maik Merten wrote: Dave Singer schrieb: are you telling us that all implementations of Ogg and Theora can play audio and video up to any bitrate, screensize, channel count etc., without dropping frames, getting behind, decoding badly, or other limits? That would

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 2007-03-30 à 16:41, Maciej Stachowiak a écrit : I think achieving broader interoperability will require us to find ways around this impasse, rather than bludgeoning each other until one side caves. Isn't Theora already more interoperable than anything else? I mean, there is a plugin

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 2, 2007, at 23:33, Dave Singer wrote: You miss the point. MPEG defines levels exactly so that bitstreams can say you need to be level X to be able to play this and players can implement up to level X and interoperability is well- defined and assured. Levels *improve* the

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Singer
At 23:29 +0300 2/04/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Apr 2, 2007, at 23:13, Dave Singer wrote: At 23:07 +0300 2/04/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: Some implementations only support AVC level up to a magic level that you have to know. are you telling us that all implementations of Ogg and Theora can

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 2, 2007, at 23:55, Dave Singer wrote: If you are arguing that MPEG makes *too much* use of profiles, then maybe that's an argument to have The foremost problem is that they are all marketed as H.264. Things that are incompatible should have different marketing names. A different

Re: [whatwg] On the use of MPEG-4 as baseline codec

2007-04-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On 3/31/07, Asbjørn Ulsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've investigated a bit on the use of MPEG-4 as a baseline codec in the proposed video element, and my conclusion is that it can't be used with the current licensing terms. From the AVC/H.264 Agreement[1]: # For branded encoder and decoder

Re: [whatwg] On the use of MPEG-4 as baseline codec

2007-04-02 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:08:24 +0200, Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you missed the cap clause, which would mean that large corporations could do this for a known cost, which is how Apple and Micosot can distribute this: The maximum annual royalty (cap) for an enterprise (commonly

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Maik Merten
Dave Singer schrieb: You miss the point. MPEG defines levels exactly so that bitstreams can say you need to be level X to be able to play this and players can implement up to level X and interoperability is well-defined and assured. Levels *improve* the interoperability, not make it worse.

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Singer
At 14:40 -0700 2/04/07, Ralph Giles wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Dave Singer wrote: [...]Does Ogg/Theora have a 'required features' or 'required version' in the bitstream? Theora doesn't currently have any profiles, and the spec has no optional decoder

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Maik Merten wrote: Well, for text browsers or on platforms that don't have the processing juice to decode it (then they couldn't decode MPEG4 whatever-part either). I'd say that are platforms that usually don't even have feature complete browsers anyway. Just wanted to note that text