Re: [whatwg] setting .src of a SCRIPT element

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > > if you set the src property of a SCRIPT element in the DOM, IE will load > the new script and run it. Firefox doesn't seem to do anything (perhaps > a more seasoned bugzilla searcher can tell me if it is considered a > known bug?). > > I think

Re: [whatwg] HTMLFormElement reset method

2007-06-19 Thread Brad Fults
Bumping this in hopes of a response. Thanks. On 3/29/07, Brad Fults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In section 7.1 of the WA 1.0 draft [1], there is the following text: The reset() method resets the form, then fires a a formchange event on all the form controls of the form. In the case of a fo

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: ignore ?

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > If we simply ignore there's no longer a need to append elements > to the head element pointer. In fact, we can remove it. I'm not sure how > much this would complicate conformance checking, but it would certainly > be very nice not to have such

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: don't move and to

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9 don't move and to the > element during parsing (much like they don't do that for >

Re: [whatwg] Script, style and backwards compatibility

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
(Thanks for forwarding forum feedback to the list. Feel free to forward my reply back to the forums, and please do continue to forward feedback from the forums, or blogs, or anywhere else, to the list!) On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > From http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.p

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: < in unquoted attribute values

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > The parsing section says that < in an unquoted attribute value > terminates the tag. However, according to my testing[1], IE7, Gecko, > Opera and Webkit don't do this -- they append the < to the attribute > value. So I think the parsing section is wr

[whatwg] html5 parsing/tokenizing

2007-06-19 Thread Benjamin West
I have a friend who has implemented a fast tokenizer in C. I asked him to send me any feedback he might have, and so what follows are his words. This is from about a month ago, so I apologize if any of this is old ground. -Ben - When the tokenization state machine is defined, every

Re: [whatwg] Incorrect character codes

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: > > Section 8.2.3.1: > "U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A through to U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER F, > and U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, through to U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL > LETTER F" > Should say: > "U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A through to U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F,

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: should close the DD?

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > I sent a bug report to Opera saying that given the markup > "X", X should be a sibling to FOO instead of a child of > DD. According to Anne the bug report was invalid per the current spec: > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:03:29 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [whatwg] void elements vs. content model = "empty"

2007-06-19 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
A void element cannot have any content because there is no way to specify it in the source. Such a relation is called entailment. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:29 AM To: ryan Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [whatwg] void elements vs. content model = "empty"

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, ryan wrote: > > So, I was just trying to check my blog for HTML5 conformance [1] and ran > into a conformance problem that I had trouble sorting out. > > The conformance checker said: > > > 1. Fatal Error: End tag param seen even though the element is an empty > > ele

Re: [whatwg] web-apps/current-work/#datetime-parser

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Sam Ruby wrote: > > Step 25 > > If sign is "negative", then shouldn't timezoneminutes also be negated? Fixed. > Step 27 > > Shouldn't that be "SUBTRACTING timezonehours hours and timezoneminutes > minutes"? > > My current time is "2007-04-17T05:28:33-04:00" The timezone

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: should be ignored

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > For compatibility with IE the parsing algorithm should probably ignore > tags. > > Test case for the above proposal: > > > > * { margin:0; padding:0; } > ul { background:red; } > li { background:lime; } > > This line should be green

[whatwg] Canvas line styles comments

2007-06-19 Thread Philip Taylor
Lines are great fun. See http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/lines.html for a random collection of demonstrations relating to the stuff below. For lineJoin, the term "joins" is used but not properly defined (except indirectly as "where two lines meet"). Given the implementations, this should

Re: [whatwg] several messages about discouraged things

2007-06-19 Thread Lee Kowalkowski
On 19/06/07, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Keryx Web wrote: >> - A table within a table cell (Has this ever been used for anything but >> layout?) > > There are valid uses of that, though they are rare. Really? What are they? I'm not sure of

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

2007-06-19 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The statements about comments can be both true in the following way: the modern user agents may accept invalid comments while the ancient ones did not do it, perhaps (correctly) treating

[whatwg] Clarity of the tag open state

2007-06-19 Thread Henri Sivonen
If the next input character is not a U+002F SOLIDUS (/) character, emit a U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN character token and switch to the data state to process the next input character. This would be clearer if it used the usual wording "consume the next input character" and "reconsume the current

Re: [whatwg] several messages about discouraged things

2007-06-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Keryx Web wrote: - A table within a table cell (Has this ever been used for anything but layout?) There are valid uses of that, though they are rare. Really? What are they? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

2007-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > The tokenization section should also handle: > > > > as "correct" comments for compat with the web. This means that > > > > shows "-->" and that > > > > shows "-->". These comments are not handled (though not conformant). On Sat, 7 Apr

Re: [whatwg] "in caption" insertion mode

2007-06-19 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:25:46 +0200, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: The "Anything else" case should probably trigger a parse error before reprocessing the current token. Why? Could you show a sample of markup that would go through this path

Re: [whatwg] several messages about discouraged things

2007-06-19 Thread MegaZone
Once upon a time Ian Hickson shaped the electrons to say... > Frames are out (except , which I don't really see as being a > problem, though let me know if I'm wrong on this). Tables for layout are I think iframe is required simply by weight of use. It seems like most web-based advertising uses