[whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/th.html#th.attrs.scope Says nothing about what a UA should do by default, nor when scope can be omitted due to such defaults. I suggest explicitly defining defaults for the benefit of both UAs and HTML authors. I would expect the defaults to be defined something

Re: [whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Michael[tm] Smith
Nicholas Shanks cont...@nickshanks.com, 2012-10-01 09:53 +0100: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/th.html#th.attrs.scope Says nothing about what a UA should do by default, nor when scope can be omitted due to such defaults. Don't look to that document for any information about default UA

Re: [whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 1 October 2012 10:21, Michael[tm] Smith m...@w3.org wrote: Don't look to that document for any information about default UA behavior, or anything at all about UA processing behavior. I tried to make that very clear in the abstract and intro for that document. Sorry, I never saw that:

Re: [whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Michael[tm] Smith
Nicholas Shanks cont...@nickshanks.com, 2012-10-01 12:04 +0100: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=html5+default+header+scope for me, returned: Coding An HTML 5 Layout From Scratch | Smashing Coding coding.smashingmagazine.com/.../designing-a-html-5-layout-from-sc... HTML th scope

Re: [whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Pierre Dubois
Nicholas Shanks cont...@nickshanks.com, 2012-10-01 09:53 +0100: [...] I suggest explicitly defining defaults for the benefit of both UAs and HTML authors. I would expect the defaults to be defined something like this: Rule 1) If a row begins with zero or more empty TD elements, followed by

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for Links to Unrelated Browsing Contexts

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Hickson
Summary: I've changed rel=noreferrer so that when it creates a new top-level browsing context, it doesn't clone sessionStorage. Turns out that as specced, it already did everything else that was needed. On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Charlie Reis wrote: I've posted a new proposal to the WhatWG wiki to

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for Links to Unrelated Browsing Contexts

2012-10-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: + have the new page be in a new browsing context ...it's a new browsing context (e.g. target=_blank). I'm not very familiar with the browsing context concept: what's the practical security issue here? It should never be

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for Links to Unrelated Browsing Contexts

2012-10-01 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/1/12 6:10 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 6/19/12 1:56 PM, Charlie Reis wrote: That's from the [if] the user agent determines that the two browsing contexts are related enough that it is ok if they reach each other part, which is quite vague. This

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for Links to Unrelated Browsing Contexts

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: + have the new page be in a new browsing context ...it's a new browsing context (e.g. target=_blank). I'm not very familiar with the browsing context concept: what's the

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for Links to Unrelated Browsing Contexts

2012-10-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: The all-too-common bad reason is we want people to keep pages open in the user's browser for long as possible in the hopes that it'll make them come back by accident, so we'll sprinkle target=_blank everywhere, eg.