Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] A content in elements for ASCII art

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:19 AM, David Bruant wrote: > => I take this argument as a "pro" argument for two reasons : > - are void elements in every single browser, so, if this "status" > changes in HTML5, they can all change the behavior of element at > the same time (which would be harder if s

Re: [whatwg] Canvas pixel manipulation and performance

On Nov 26, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Jason Oster wrote: > Hello Group, > > I've been using canvas to draw pixel art (NES/SNES game screens and sprites) > similar to what an emulator would do. Doing this kind of drawing requires > direct access to the pixel buffer. > > My problem with the canvas spe

[whatwg] Possible bugs : Microdata Itemscope on and

Hi, I made a forumpost : http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=4176, concerning a possible "microdata specification bug" and a bug in the james.html5.org microdata extractor. Comes down to and elements possibly being unfit for use with the itemscope attribute. I made an example in the f

[whatwg] Canvas pixel manipulation and performance

Hello Group, I've been using canvas to draw pixel art (NES/SNES game screens and sprites) similar to what an emulator would do. Doing this kind of drawing requires direct access to the pixel buffer. My problem with the canvas spec (as it is now) is that it tends to artificially bounds pixel d

[whatwg] Use cases for the time element

In the section for the time element, the spec states: "This element is intended as a way to encode modern dates and times in a machine-readable way so that user agents can offer to add them to the user's calendar." http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-seman

Re: [whatwg] size limits on web databases

> For what it's worth, I believe that the option (1) choice of > minimumCapacity in my original email would be quite easy to implement on > WebKit for iPhone and Safari UAs: just return 5MB. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > The iPhone has GBs of storage, though, so it's proba

[whatwg] createEvent() in Web Workers?

There's ErrorEvent.initErrorEvent, and dispatchEvent is exposed in workers, but there's no createEvent (because there's no document). Are there use cases for sending events in a worker? Should we expose createEvent somewhere? Should we remove initErrorEvent? -- Simon Pieters Opera Software