Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace

2008-05-30 Thread Ernest Cline
Having looked at the discussion thus has generated, I have a counterproposal to make. First of all, given that full support for hyperlinks requires support for seven attributes (href, target, ping, rel, media, hreflang, & type), I can fully understand web developers not wanting to make it somet

Re: [whatwg] Scoped tabindex proposal

2008-05-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Currently if you want to use the tabindex to change the tab order you > mostly have to specify tabindex on all links and form controls prior to > the area you want to modify the tab order, because otherwise that area > would be before all prior ele

Re: [whatwg] [Slightly OT(?)] Programmatically defined styles [Re: Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]]

2008-05-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 30 May 2008, �istein E. Andersen wrote: > > [I wrote:] > >> PS: How should colour be added to tables like these in HTML5 with > >> neither of the attributes bgcolor and style? > > > > Class attribute and external stylesheets. (Possibly a data-* attribute.) > > I actually thought this m

[whatwg] [Slightly OT(?)] Programmatically defined styles [Re: Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]]

2008-05-30 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
On 22 May 2008, at 11:40, Ian Hickson wrote: > [I wrote:] >> PS: How should colour be added to tables like these in HTML5 with >> neither of the attributes bgcolor and style? > > Class attribute and external stylesheets. (Possibly a data-* attribute.) I actually thought this might be one of t

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace

2008-05-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 30 May 2008 17:12:12 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I can tell a block-level is already supported just fine, as you *can* wrap block-level content in an and have it work as expected right now, and CSSing an into display:block works wonderfully. It *appears

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace

2008-05-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a lot of focus on "use cases". Here is the one that led me to start > this thread: > > http://www.duttondirect.com/automotive/for_sale (disclaimer: I am not > responsible for the design of this page) > > The table hover

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace

2008-05-30 Thread David Gerard
Realistically, are people ever going to stop using in the next twenty years? Even if it's marked "deprecated"? - d.

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace

2008-05-30 Thread Shannon
There's a lot of focus on "use cases". Here is the one that led me to start this thread: http://www.duttondirect.com/automotive/for_sale (disclaimer: I am not responsible for the design of this page) The table hover effect is not easily acheived without global href. My client likes it, the u