Re: [whatwg] submit: button vs input

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Alan Plum wrote: > > is there any official recommendation for which element to use for form > submission buttons? > > Historically, input has been preferred because of button's > implementation differences in IE6. Now that IE6 support is becoming less > and less of an issu

Re: [whatwg] Better reference for Windows 949?

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 3 May 2011, yuhong wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > >> > >> The spec gives: > >> > >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/cc305154.aspx > >> > >> as the reference for Windows 949. If you click on the higher-byte > >> links, which ar

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to remove a paragraph from canvas spec

2011-05-03 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Matthew Delaney wrote: > Since: > 1) This behavior is obviously not ideal (see the linked animation above) > and is really just a bug > See the thread " shadow compositing oddities" from July 2008. In that thread, Eric Butler points out that always drawing shadows

Re: [whatwg] Better reference for Windows 949?

2011-05-03 Thread yuhong
Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >> >> The spec gives: >> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/cc305154.aspx >> >> as the reference for Windows 949. If you click on the higher-byte >> links, which are supposed to link to further code tables, the l

[whatwg] Proposal to remove a paragraph from canvas spec

2011-05-03 Thread Matthew Delaney
The paragraph in the canvas spec that reads... "Shadows are only drawn if the opacity component of the alpha component of the color of shadowColor is non-zero and either the shadowBlur is non-zero, or the shadowOffsetX is non-zero, or the shadowOffsetY is non-zero." …I've found must have been mod

Re: [whatwg] input element list attribute and filtering suggestions

2011-05-03 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> I just meant that it would be a poor authoring experience. I agree that it >> should in theory be possible with the current API; it just seems that if >> that's the use case we want to addr

Re: [whatwg] Control over selection direction

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Hickson
(This thread started talking about the text field selection API, but several posts discussed changes to the range API instead, apparently due to some miscommunication. I have ignored the posts that referred to the range API. I recommend following up with the editor(s) of the DOM Range spec if

Re: [whatwg] Better reference for Windows 949?

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > The spec gives: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/cc305154.aspx > > as the reference for Windows 949. If you click on the higher-byte > links, which are supposed to link to further code tables, the links > are broken. These links s

Re: [whatwg] input element list attribute and filtering suggestions

2011-05-03 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > I just meant that it would be a poor authoring experience. I agree that it > should in theory be possible with the current API; it just seems that if > that's the use case we want to address, we should instead just have > people point to a URL a

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2011-05-03 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2011-05-03 00:47, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:18:52 -, Ian Hickson wrote: For example, markup such as the following is sadly common: Hello world! I have therefore not changed the spec in response to this request. On Fri

Re: [whatwg] Submit controls should be barred from constraint validation in favor of a new pseudo-class

2011-05-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
On 05/02/2011 10:44 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote: On 12/31/2010 02:20 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: far as I can tell. Anything that's visible and submitted is a candidate for constraint validation. Except and. But do we agree that "it's visible and submittable s

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a web application descriptor

2011-05-03 Thread Cameron Heavon-Jones
On 02/05/2011, at 10:47 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 09:52 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: >>> Asking for specific permissions in the context of a user action is >>> the >>> only model that makes sense to me. When applications ask for a big >>> bundle of >>> permissions in advanc

Re: [whatwg] sic element

2011-05-03 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ian Hickson wrote: I think we use "[sic]" as a way for one human to tell another human that they are aware that the text has a mistake but that keeping the mistake was intentional, so that the other human won't tell the first human to fix the problem. For this, plaintext "[sic]" seems to solve

Re: [whatwg] Specification of window.find()

2011-05-03 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On 05/03/2011 01:42 AM, ext Ian Hickson wrote: I do not know the original use case but I can think of a few: -on mobile devices which have a find dialog but no user interface to access it, make the find dialog appear Are there pages that do this today? Or indeed any UAs that have a find dialog