Re: [whatwg] namespaces in html5

2012-01-20 Thread David Karger
On 01/20/2012 02:24 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Thanks for taking the time to look at this. On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, David Karger wrote: [...] the Exhibit data visualization framework (http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit) [...] The goal of Exhibit is to make it easy for non-programmers to embed

[whatwg] inconsistent canvas implementations of destination-in compositing

2011-12-22 Thread David Karger
Firefox and chrome inconsistently handle "destination-in" compositing; I suspect this may be due to a missing specification in the standard. The inconsistency happens when I use the drawImage method to draw one canvas onto another while the globalCompositionOperation is set to "destination-in"

Re: [whatwg] creating a new file via the File API

2011-12-18 Thread David Karger
download attribute, but URL is JS blob (local data). I do not see problem here. What are you missing? And yes, I also do not see security issues here, nothing user cannot do today with regular download or programmer by uploading data to server and then download them... B. On 19.12.2011 6:26,

Re: [whatwg] creating a new file via the File API

2011-12-18 Thread David Karger
s you to download/drag'ndrop generated file using JS (no flash) it's working in Chrome only at this point FF team is having some security issues I've been discussing with them https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676619 B. On 16.12.2011 0:58, David Karger wrote: It is

Re: [whatwg] creating a new file via the File API

2011-12-15 Thread David Karger
log that is already creating. What some javascript _does_ with the specified file might need to be implemented using a filesaver api, but that's separate from the declaration of an interaction for specifying the file. On 12/15/2011 6:45 PM, whatwg-requ...@lists.whatwg.org

[whatwg] microdata: itemprop in tag

2011-10-16 Thread David Karger
One natural way to represent a collection of structured items is in an html table. this can coexist with microdata, by using and tags. But by ignoring the structure of the table, this creates a lot of redundant attribute specification. It would yield cleaner markup if it were possible to u

[whatwg] creating a new file via the File API

2011-08-15 Thread David Karger
but that has size limitations. Perhaps could be given an attribute specifying whether a new filename is permitted? -David Karger

Re: [whatwg] namespaces in html5

2011-07-18 Thread David Karger
page. So, while it might be technically valid to use data- prefixes, it doesn't seem to fit the intention. On 7/18/2011 8:53 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:33 AM, David Karger wrote: Yes, we could, but it doesn't address the two objections I raised to data-

Re: [whatwg] namespaces in html5

2011-07-18 Thread David Karger
ng incompatibilities (functionality; major) On Monday, July 18, 2011 5:28:44 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:22:42 +0200, David Karger wrote: Another approach would be to use the catchall html5 data- prefix for attributes. We could certainly prefix all of our specialized attr

Re: [whatwg] namespaces in html5

2011-07-18 Thread David Karger
ies of our target novice web authors * and protecting us from a future in which collisions on choice of attribute names make our library/vocabulary incompatible with others' On 7/18/2011 8:46 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, David Karger wrote: I wish to submit a comment re

[whatwg] namespaces in html5

2011-07-17 Thread David Karger
sion and know where it is? thanks David Karger