Re: [whatwg] Feedback on the ping="" attribute (ISSUE-1)

2007-11-03 Thread Dan Connolly
Julian Reschke wrote: [...] On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Julian Reschke wrote: We're long past that. It's trivial for a page to trigger a POST without the user knowing. I consider that a bug in User Agents. This is not a widely held opinion. Well, it's what RFC2616 says. I would argue that if the H

Re: [whatwg] Element

2007-11-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: ... Do EM elements accumulate? They are idempotent under the default style sheet because you cannot make an italic typeface more italic. In non-Web typography, any text that would be italicized when the surrounding text is roman is typ

Re: [whatwg] validate attribute in

2007-11-03 Thread Adam Barth
On Nov 3, 2007 10:55 AM, Adam Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 3, 2007 2:31 AM, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mike Hoye wrote: > > > The validate attribute would describe an algorithm to employ and a > > > result to compare it to; for example, somebody dow

Re: [whatwg] validate attribute in

2007-11-03 Thread Adam Barth
On Nov 3, 2007 2:31 AM, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mike Hoye wrote: > > The validate attribute would describe an algorithm to employ and a > > result to compare it to; for example, somebody downloading the en-US > > version of FF 1.5 from the Mozilla.com homepage

Re: [whatwg] several messages about a way to disable referer headers for links

2007-11-03 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 03-11-2007, sob o godzinie 08:42 +, Ian Hickson napisał(a): > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > > > > I quite like this proposal, but while we're at this early stage, it > > might be nice to correct the spelling to "referrer" on the attribute... > > fix a mistake made

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on the ping="" attribute (ISSUE-1)

2007-11-03 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 02-11-2007, pią o godzinie 22:05 +, Ian Hickson napisał(a): > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > > > Aside from all of the other issues, my vote would be to remove the ping > > attribute from the specification. It is not a desirable feature. [snip] > > It is not sufficient f

Re: [whatwg] Tag Soup: Blocks-in-inlines

2007-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Billy Wong wrote: > > When somebody want a hyperlink work for one or more block(s) including > the inside space and border, it make sense to most to put href="">... Currently, in order to do the same thing and > remain "conformable", people need to do pointless hack like on

Re: [whatwg] validate attribute in

2007-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mike Hoye wrote: > > Hi, all. I hope this hasn't been proposed before, but if it is my > googlage is failing me. My proposal is for the addition of a "validate" > attribute to the the element that would let the client verify the > content of a link as it comes in, and eith

[whatwg] ISSUE-2, was: Feedback on the ping="" attribute

2007-11-03 Thread Julian Reschke
Boris, thanks for the pointer and the feedback; I have added a separate issue for tracking the discussion about the UI requirement. BR, Julian (Citing the full mail for Tracker) Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: I agree that ping="" should be made visible to users. Indeed, the spec

Re: [whatwg] several messages about a way to disable referer headers for links

2007-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Tyler Close wrote: > > Just as many sites use redirects, instead of direct external links, for > click tracking, many sites also use redirects to control the HTTP > referer header. For example, if you click on a hyperlink in GMail, it > will use a redirect that prevents sen