Re: [whatwg] microformats, microdata, and custom data attributes

2011-04-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 22:12 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Justin Karneges jus...@affinix.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm desiring a way to markup mentions of a person semantically within HTML, for use in an open standard. Think of a more rich form of the

Re: [whatwg] Physical quantities: var or i?

2011-04-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Aryeh Gregor wrote: So what markup should we use for E = mc², given that by the applicable standards, E, M, and c should appear in italics and the other characters as normal (upright)? Those three characters are typeset, read, and otherwise presented identically to variables, so the correct

Re: [whatwg] Decimal comma in numeric input

2011-04-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Aryeh Gregor wrote: I didn't read the whole thread, but: authors with specific needs will always want to roll their own inputs for most of these things, and that's fine. An element for user input of a real number in a format that uses a suitable decimal separator is hardly a specific need.

[whatwg] onForward and onBackward event and enable/disable Forward and Backward buttons.

2011-04-16 Thread Biju
Hi, setInterval(function(){location='#'+(1*new Date())},0) At least in Firefox 4 above code make entire history filled with current url with different hash. And hence already now a website can make Backward/Forward button useless. --- When I am on a web application, my naturally

Re: [whatwg] onForward and onBackward event and enable/disable Forward and Backward buttons.

2011-04-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:12 -0400, Biju wrote: Hi, setInterval(function(){location='#'+(1*new Date())},0) At least in Firefox 4 above code make entire history filled with current url with different hash. And hence already now a website can make Backward/Forward button useless.

Re: [whatwg] onForward and onBackward event and enable/disable Forward and Backward buttons.

2011-04-16 Thread Biju
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Couldn't that be badly abused by sites that wanted you to force you to use their navigation rather than allow you to use back and forwards buttons on your browser? This proposal wont give any more facility to

[whatwg] Application Cache, Application Cache, Application Cache

2011-04-16 Thread Edward Gerhold
Dear Working Group and Subscribers, I came to the conclusion, the cache is linked too tightly to the manifest. The cache is good how it is as long as it isn´t developed for dynamic websites and caches. The manifest should only be the basis of the cached site, and the programmatic addition and