Re: [whatwg] Full screen for the video element

2007-10-30 Thread Dave Singer
At 5:47 + 30/10/07, Ian Hickson wrote: Also, if the setting exists, it's far easier to trick users into setting it than if it doesn't. Out of curiousity, is an automatic switch to full screen without the user's consent considered an annoyance/usability problem or a

Re: [whatwg] Full screen for the video element

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Dave Singer wrote: I think if you can collect keystrokes then phishing is also on the cards, alas. True. 2. It's not clear what would be the best way for UAs to provide the functionality while preventing sites from taking advantage of the feature and

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 Parsing spec first draft ready

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: Because lang in no namespace is what is normal for HTML. However, since Anne said UAs have already implemented xml:lang taking precedence, I guess it is best to go with what is implemented. Well, xml:lang is what is normal for

Re: [whatwg] switch element

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: Is there a reason why the switch element accept any block content and instead of accepting just section elements? If section is the only element with the suitable DOM interface, wouldn't it make sense for the content model to be zero or more

Re: [whatwg] lang versus xml:lang

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: I start to think that lang= should also be allowed in XML documents. xml:lang is nice, but if you don't have knowledge of the HTML namespace knowing the language of certain constructs isn't that valuable. It would also make HTMLElement.lang

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Nicholas Shanks wrote: I have a website which discusses typography, web design, and computer fonts. It recently occurred to me that my use of spans with style elements was not really the most semantic method of getting across my meaning, and I would be better using the

Re: [whatwg] additional empty elements

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Brenton Strine wrote: Say, for example, you have a website which has sections of content that are indented variously. It would be easy to accomplish the different styles using classes: div class=firstgroupThis text isn't indented at all!/div div class=secondgroupThis

Re: [whatwg] Full screen for the video element

2007-10-30 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Oct 30, 2007 9:20 PM, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think if you can collect keystrokes then phishing is also on the cards, alas. FWIW, Flash and Silverlight try to address this by leaving full-screen mode when keys are pressed. Rob -- Two men owed money to a certain

Re: [whatwg] typing links

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Ben Adida wrote: The REL attribute has been proposed as a means to extract *simple* meaning from the HTML. For example: By viewing this web site, you are agreeing to its a rel=terms-of-use href=terms-of-use.htmlterms of use/a. UAs could theoretically

Re: [whatwg] Fwd: idea for new tag: breadcrums (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, George Lund wrote: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone sent me a mail suggesting: | breadcrumbs | a href=/Main/a a href=/products/Products/a Dishwashers | /breadcrumbs I think a better way of doing this would be: navigation p a

Re: [whatwg] A thought: a href=... method=post

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ian Bicking wrote: I was just thinking about the recent problems introduced by the Google Web Accelerator following links that have side effects (the typical a href=form?delete=10[delete this]/a stuff). One of the issues is that doing the Right Thing means creating a

Re: [whatwg] typing links

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Ben Adida wrote: On 30 Oct 2007, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Ben Adida wrote: Wow, that was a while ago :) Hey, I said I'd reply to all feedback. I just didn't say when! :-) Actually URLs are already allowed in HTML5 -- anything that doesn't contain

Re: [whatwg] Web Apps 1.0: On-line help

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Jim Ley wrote: adding in a link rel of help would seem a pretty low rent thing to define, There's already a help relationship defined in HTML 4 [1], it doesn't need to be added. Perhaps it's semantics could be refined and maybe give some

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Derek Featherstone wrote: Anyway, having the ability to add a help link in the body, with particular context-sensitivity (as discussed for including a link with rel=help in a form control label) is probably sufficient. I'll take that discussion back to W3C's

Re: [whatwg] WA1: rev attribute

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: The 'rev' attribute from prior versions of HTML is missing in WA1, and I think it deserves not to be left out. Most common link types out there are used with 'rel', but some 'rev' values can also be useful. Actually, research suggests that rev= is