[whatwg] Origin feedback

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Jeff Walden wrote: > > The spec as currently written says that document.domain in a document > located at a URI with no domain is null: > > data:text/html,alert(document.domain); > > Safari and Opera both alert the empty string for this; Firefox alerts > null. I've changed

Re: [whatwg] text/html for html and xhtml

2008-04-28 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Křištof Želechovski wrote: If the server infers the MIME type from content and sends it over HTTP as it should, you can have both. Changing servers (including getting existing installs updated) is even more painful than changing browsers, though. It would be very nice if servers had better M

Re: [whatwg] Calling HTMLDocument.open() should change the origin of the document to the caller's origin

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Jeff Walden wrote: > > The current verbiage describing open() says nothing about the document's > origin reflecting that of the mutator, which is an oversight which > should eventually be corrected. This came up when considering the > values of the domain/uri properties on

Re: [whatwg] DOM Storage feedback

2008-04-28 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:14:03 +0200, Brady Eidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to make sure that my understanding is correct here, since you expressed doubt. Anne was asserting that since the interface for setItem() specifies a DOMString as the input, anything you pass it will be s

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-28 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Křištof Želechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the advantage of cutting an image to parts > and having the browser show them as one by putting them aside? > I would rather use one big image in the first place. > Chris > On my company's web site, our heade

Re: [whatwg] Lowercase attribute values

2008-04-28 Thread fantasai
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Aug 28, 2005, at 09:56, Henri Sivonen wrote: How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? On further reflection, it seems to me the latte

Re: [whatwg] DOM Storage feedback

2008-04-28 Thread Brady Eidson
On Apr 27, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Brady Eidson wrote: In 4.10.5, the description of the properties on the StorageEvent object mentions "...its newValue attribute set to the new value of the key in question, or null if the key was removed..." So a web a

Re: [whatwg] text/html for html and xhtml

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
If the server infers the MIME type from content and sends it over HTTP as it should, you can have both. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Zbarsky Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:10 AM To: William F Hammond Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
ALTGROUP is a dirty trick; if you insist on having the images separate, which you really should not do, you can have This extension would be closer to the meaning IMHO. Otherwise, what happens if the images that belong to the same ALTGROUP of yours are not contiguous? Chris -Original Message-

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: target="_reference"

2008-04-28 Thread fantasai
Křištof Želechovski wrote: How about target="_guide" instead? A reference is usually lengthy and unreadable; the designer should know better than to treat the poor user with a reference. Or _notification. Most of what Matthew wants to use it for seems to be notifications. How are you suppos

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
Or even -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Mason Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:14 PM To: Simon Pieters Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation Simon Pieters wrote: > For instance it would be rea

Re: [whatwg] postMessage feedback

2008-04-28 Thread Martin Atkins
Jeff Walden wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: I haven't changed the target of the event, it's still the Document object. This is a little odd, though, would people rather I made it the element with an auto-forward to the Window object, like the 'load' event and so forth? That would allow onmessage=""

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on , , and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
I am sorry to hear that cross-references are gone. The replacement you suggest does not catch the difference between navigational and informational hyperlinks. The difference is essential e.g. for GNU info: navigational links are "near jumps" to child nodes; informational links can transport the

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
What is the advantage of cutting an image to parts and having the browser show them as one by putting them aside? I would rather use one big image in the first place. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shannon Sent: Monday, April 21,

Re: [whatwg] Footnotes, end notes, side notes

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
Although providing the footnote as a tool-tip seems appealing at the first glance, it is not exactly how it should be done. Footnotes are commonly used for bibliographic references; using the title attribute seems to be a non-solution in this case. Text of such "footnotes" cannot be copied an

Re: [whatwg] HTML semantics and file system

2008-04-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Samuel Santos wrote: When writing technical HTML documents, I often feel a need for an element to represent a path or a file in the file system. But I couldn't find any semantically correct element to do this. I usually use C:\foo\bar but it just feels wrong... Is it worthy to have another HTML

[whatwg] HTML semantics and file system

2008-04-28 Thread Samuel Santos
When writing technical HTML documents, I often feel a need for an element to represent a path or a file in the file system. But I couldn't find any semantically correct element to do this. I usually use C:\foo\bar but it just feels wrong... Is it worthy to have another HTML element like (I'm not

Re: [whatwg] xml:space

2008-04-28 Thread Křištof Želechovski
This issue is not limited to PRE, nor is PRE the main application. There are numerous community Web sites that allow the users to submit hypertext content. You often get italic bold after you submit unless you use a zero-width non-joiner between them. While this is not strictly a HTML problem