Re: [whatwg] Possible bugs : Microdata Itemscope on and

2009-11-27 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:30:41 +0100, Tim van Oostrom wrote: 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

Re: [whatwg] push/replaceState title parameter (was AJAX History Concerns)

2009-11-27 Thread Jonathan Cook
I have not been following this thread closely but have just read a very nested reply that seemed to be more about confusion than actual questions or answers. I find that creating an analogy often helps me see things more clearly when discussing use cases in the abstract. If I am reading the t

Re: [whatwg] createEvent() in Web Workers?

2009-11-27 Thread Jonathan Cook
An idea for creating events is to support [Constructor] on all event IDLs, which makes the createEvent method unnecessary. Maybe we could even make the arguments to the constructor be called to initFooEvent() directly, so instead of doing var e = document.createEvent('MouseEvents'); e

Re: [whatwg] createEvent() in Web Workers?

2009-11-27 Thread Simon Pieters
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:50:21 +0100, Jonathan Cook wrote: Simon Pieters wrote: 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 create

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-11-27 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jeremy Keith wrote: > On October 14th, Hixie wrote: >> >> As far as I can see the options are as follows: >> >> 1. Drop support for and for now, revisit it later. >> >> 2. Use , and don't expect to be able to use it in any browsers >>   sanely for a few years. >>

Re: [whatwg] createEvent() in Web Workers?

2009-11-27 Thread Jonathan Cook
I would like to see createEvent in WebWorker. My (theoretical) use case would involve using custom eventing to load or set new message handlers. Flow would be something like this window A creates worker 1 window A sends message to worker 1 worker 1 sends message to window A window A sends messa

Re: [whatwg] Use cases for the time element

2009-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 18:50, Jeremy Keith wrote: "The following extract shows how an IM conversation log could be marked up. 14:22 egof I'm not that nerdy, I've only seen 30% of the star trek episodes" What's the point of having the time semantically marked up in this

Re: [whatwg] The new content model for breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

2009-11-27 Thread Jeremy Keith
On October 14th, Hixie wrote: As far as I can see the options are as follows: 1. Drop support for and for now, revisit it later. 2. Use , and don't expect to be able to use it in any browsers sanely for a few years. 3. Use /, and don't expect to be able to use it in old versions of I

Re: [whatwg] Use cases for the time element

2009-11-27 Thread Jeremy Keith
Henri wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 18:50, Jeremy Keith wrote: "The following extract shows how an IM conversation log could be marked up. 14:22 egof I'm not that nerdy, I've only seen 30% of the star trek episodes" What's the point of having the time semantically marked up in this example

Re: [whatwg] Use cases for the time element

2009-11-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Nov 26, 2009, at 18:50, Jeremy Keith wrote: > "The following extract shows how an IM conversation log could be marked up. > 14:22 egof I'm not that nerdy, I've only seen 30% of > the star trek episodes" What's the point of having the time semantically marked up in this example? What kind of