Re: [whatwg] Size of SVG-Img-Canvas

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
by reference to the CSS Concrete Object Size Resolution algorithm. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Exclude robots on a per-link basis

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
that authority shouldn't flow through the link in systems that attempt to rank pages (e.g. search engines). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Session History and onpopstate coupled with iframes

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
. At this point I doubt we can really change how iframes work with session history, there are too many sites that depend on it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] Use of media queries to limit bandwidth/data transfer

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
alerts show 1920 and 640 respectively. I haven't changed the HTML specification in response to the above. It isn't clear to me what we should do, if anything. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] A better animation API

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
/public-web-perf/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Why won't you let us make our own HTML5 browsers?

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
feature before allowing it, others (e.g. MacOS, Windows) keep track of where files were obtained from and give dire warnings before running apps from the Web. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] history.popstate in Firefox4

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I'm studying some of the feedback raised over the past few months regarding history.pushState() and related APIs, in particular in the context of applying these changes to the spec

Re: [whatwg] tabindexscope

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
be a layering violation anyway. On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Simon Pieters wrote: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-August/007228.html :-) http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-May/014938.html :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Allowing custom attributes on html or body in documents for media resources

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
in toplevel browsing contexts :-). Is there any reason you can't just put whatever styles you want into a style element? It's not clear to me why you need to reference a global style sheet rather than referencing or generating a style sheet specifically for each case. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Why is @scoped required for style as flow content?

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2011-06-15 3:26, Ian Hickson wrote: Styling a whole document by having style sheets in the middle of the document causes flickering (as the browser updates the styles), and is hard to maintain. So we make this non-conforming, to help authors

Re: [whatwg] Origin of a data: URL for an img

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Gavin Kistner wrote: Can you provide an example in script of when the found specs would apply, and when the other specs would apply? Hmm, good point. Now that we're using CORS explicitly, all of the stuff about image

Re: [whatwg] tabindexscope

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Erik Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 13:54, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Surely that would be better than having authors manage local regions for tabindex, especially since the positioning depends on the CSS level, not the HTML level, and thus trying

Re: [whatwg] Allowing custom attributes on html or body in documents for media resources

2012-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Is there any reason you can't just put whatever styles you want into a style element? It's not clear to me why you need to reference a global style sheet rather than

Re: [whatwg] Constructors for HTML Elements

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, James Graham wrote: There seems to be some interest in making all concrete interfaces in the DOM constructible [...]. I haven't done this for HTML element interfaces. I think Element.create(), as discussed in public-webapps, is a more scalable approach. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Including FLAC output in Audio Specs

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
to the WebRTC WG, I recommend raising this there instead. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Offline-Capable Meta Tag and API Indicates Application's Ability to Function Without Network Connection

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
are almost always this way. For such apps I would recommend using the appcache feature and structuring the app so that it doesn't need to be fully cached before it'll work. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] How should overflow be handled when parsing integers?

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
mention this by whether consider it as a parsing error or request the UA to default to the highest value (which Presto and IE6 seem to do but not using the same value). I would recommend ignoring the attribute entirely rather than using an arbitrarily high value, personally. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] CACHE MANIFEST

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
. Should not The spec require that compliant browsers provide an easy way to view cached files when the user is off line? This is a UI issue, so it's really up to the browsers. I recommend approaching them directly with this request. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Canvas ScrollBar

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
using canvas? (rich controls are better doing this way, one has pixel perfect control, full browser compatibility) like document viewer, rich listview/treeview control... Generally speaking, canvas isn't intended for anything but the simplest of interactive controls. HTH, -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] keygen element

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
browsers do. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Signed XHTML

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
transaction that took place in their browser. For this kind of topic I recommend approaching this mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-security/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] New attributes would degrade better than new elements

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
of contents outlines to be created (as do h1-h6, but section allows you to do it without having to renumber all your headings when moving stuff around). But in general, the main purpose is easier authoring. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Offline-Capable Meta Tag and API Indicates Application's Ability to Function Without Network Connection

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
limitations, anyway). The caching progress can be easily reported to the user (either by the UA or the page), so the user can know that they should leave the tab open while it does the update, and yet the page is usable in the meantime. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] New attributes would degrade better than new elements

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2012-01-27 21:33, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: New elements likenav andfooter have the problem that some existing user agents don't recognize them, even for the purposes of styling. This is only

Re: [whatwg] [CORS] WebKit tainting image instead of throwing, error

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
. On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Adam Barth wrote: Sorry about that. This is filed as https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71053. I've got some time scheduled to look at this later in the week. I've fixed the spec accordingly. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Autofocus readonly Input Elements

2012-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Ojan Vafai wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: If they're focusable at all, I don't see why they wouldn't be autofocusable. Is there a use case for special-casing read-only ones? Right. The question is whether read-only/disabled

Re: [whatwg] beforepopstate event?

2012-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Thomas Broyer wrote: Is there really no equivalent to the beforeunload event for the History API? Has it been discussed? or is this an oversight? Does the pagehide event do what you mean? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [whatwg] Question: rel=help

2012-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
=Some help text/a or input type=text data-tooltip=Some help text / Would you agree that this is the better option? If what you want is a tooltip, then the title= attribute is probably your best bet. No need for any scripting. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Drag and drop: bugged implementation of setting drag feedback with setDragImage?

2012-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
Rafal is trying to do, though, so I haven't currently changed the spec for this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] HTMLLinkElement.disabled and HTMLLinkElement.sheet behavior

2012-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
at styles fail depending on network performance. Note that this is not conforming. The spec does not currently define any such behaviour. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

[whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
). For details on the process, please see the FAQ: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Detached elements and delaying the load event

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
and audio already had requirements to this effect. iframe outside a document doesn't initiate a load, so it's case is different. Let me know if I missed anything. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Shadows

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Martijn wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 8:51 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Martijn wrote: Is how to render shadows defined here? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#shadows0 So with that piece of text it is clear how to render

Re: [whatwg] Erroneous description of h1, h2, h3, etc. elements on Whatwg.org

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
h2My subsection/h2 /section The rank concept is used to figure out the relative level of the headings in the document as a whole, it's not the end of the story. You can't just ignore the outline section, that's the section that says what the outlines mean. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: [whatwg] The placeholder attribute

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
. The last paragraph of the section on the pattern attribute links twice to semantics.html#the-title-element. Should it not link to elements.html#the-title-attribute? Fixed, thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Need clarification on DOM exceptions thrown by canvas 2D drawImage

2012-01-24 Thread Ian Hickson
with filtering behaviour.) On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: On 2011-08-08, at 4:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: A bit lower down in the same section, the spec says: When the filtering algorithm requires a pixel value from outside the original image data, it must instead use the value from

Re: [whatwg] Allowing Clickjacking Prevention using a Minimal Javascript API

2012-01-24 Thread Ian Hickson
by non-same-origin pages anyway? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] add html-attribute for responsive images

2012-01-24 Thread Ian Hickson
it in the alt tag. I don't really understand the use case here. Could you elaborate, ideally with an example showing the alternative text you had in mind? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [editing] Dragdrop and editable content

2012-01-24 Thread Ian Hickson
doesn't make sense for editable content, there's no Drop event if the DragOver isn't canceled and then the default behavior of dragdrop doesn't work. Why would there be no 'drop' event? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Discrepancies between HTML and ES rules for parsing an integer or float

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Hickson
varying definition of whitespace rather than a small set, making HTML parsing depend on non-ASCII values, or, just referencing the JS spec directly. For the reasons described above, I have not done either at this time. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] namespaces in html5

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
be technically valid to use data- prefixes, it doesn't seem to fit the intention. Is the exhibit JavaScript library not being delivered with the page? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] Placeholder visibility on focus

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
. In general this is a UA UI issue so I don't want to overconstrain this. If there's a use case for UIs that aren't allowed in the spec as it stands, I'm happy to loosen it further, let me know. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: [whatwg] namespaces in html5

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
, without a prefix, which accomplishes the same thing?). Because then it would limit the space within which the language itself can be extended in the future. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Page displayed during/after download (meta refresh downloads)

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
approaching high-profile sites that do this and asking them whether they're interested in doing it in a different way. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: [whatwg] window.status and window.defaultStatus

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
be interested in [1] [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/ Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

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

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 25.07.2011 22:02, Ian Hickson wrote: So what markup should we use for E = mc�, given that by the applicable standards, E, M, and c should appear in italics and the other characters as normal (upright)? It sounds like you want to use

Re: [whatwg] [Selectors4] case-insensitive attribute value matching (in XML)

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
efforts here. If this is an area of interest, I encourage you to study the specification to see if the current requirements are satisfactory. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] link.sizes and [PutForwards=value]

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Cameron McCormack wrote: Jumping in the middle of this thread to pick up on one aspect... On 28/07/11 6:15 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Are we really concerned about objects stringifying to [Object Foo]? It seems that the usefulness of such stringification is far

Re: [whatwg] Decimal comma in numeric input

2012-01-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 16.07.2011 00:01, Ian Hickson wrote: Much discussion on this topic happened when we started on this work in 2004 and 2005, I highly recommend perusing the archives around that time. Authors and implementors will need to be able

Re: [whatwg] Should events be paused on detached iframes?

2012-01-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 6/13/11 8:09 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: It's possible to switch these relevant checks to walk the ownerDocument chain instead, say. Then we need to audit all the callsites to make sure this makes sense at them and figure out what to do

Re: [whatwg] Help

2012-01-13 Thread Ian Hickson
converters out there. I recommend doing a search for word to html in your favourite search engine. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Reconcile document.URL and document.documentURI?

2012-01-13 Thread Ian Hickson
concept is never set. So um... when should it be set? Is it just the document's address but with the change that the document's address is about:blank for create*Document()-created documents? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: [whatwg] Interaction of wbr and CSS white-space

2012-01-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote [edited for context]: On 12/15/11 3:10 PM, Ian Hickson wrote [edited for context]: I might be open to changing the current spec text -- presumably to just define wbr as follows, or something similar (though using U+200B would probably affect text

Re: [whatwg] Readiness of script-created documents

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Hickson
seem like a good reason to require that. Jonas is correct. Since there was no interop here I figured we might as well go with what made sense. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] What it means for attributes of input to apply or not apply

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Hickson
does not apply to the element could use clarification, though. On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Ian Hickson wrote: It's a hook used here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#common-input-element-attributes I'll add a hyperlink or something to make it clearer. Now done

Re: [whatwg] Outdated Implementation Statuses?

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Hickson
done. I made a change a few weeks ago to try to improve matters without going too far, so now if you hover over the boxes you get an edit link. Hopefully that helps a little... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Time Parsing

2012-01-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote: On 2011-06-15 07:55, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote: This should also only allow up to 3 digits representing milliseconds. If there are 4 or more digits (microseconds or beyond), the spec should state

Re: [whatwg] Time Parsing

2012-01-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote: On 2011-06-15 07:55, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote: This should also only allow up to 3 digits representing milliseconds. If there are 4 or more digits (microseconds

Re: [whatwg] Session Management

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
progress on this issue. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Form controls inside a label but not labelled by it

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote: On 06/04/2011 12:57 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote: According to a comment of Hixie in [1], this case has been handled by the specs in 2004 but it doesn't seem to be any more and UA's have a very different

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
cover to other browsers interested in the same potential performance improvement. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Comparing mouseover/mouseout, mouseenter/mouseleave and dragenter/dragleave

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] typo in the spec of the selectionDirection attribute

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
. --- The current value of the selectionEnd attribute is not as the first argument, but as the second argument, is it? Indeed. This has been fixed. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Interpretation issue: can section be used for extended paragraphs?

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Markus Ernst wrote: Am 14.06.2011 09:32 schrieb Ian Hickson: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Markus Ernst wrote: Instead of a new paragraph concept, there could also be a new concept for inline (resp. Phrasing Content) lists. The concept is actually not too new

Re: [whatwg] Idea: pseudo-classes :valid and :invalid for whole form?

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Spec with Implementation Details Highlighted?

2012-01-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Smylers wrote: If it's something you'd find useful even in its incomplete state, I can add an alternative style sheet Yes, please. Roger. I've added an alternative style sheet set that has a rule for .impl sections for you. HTH. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: [whatwg] [Bug 12287] Restrict sequenceT to operation argument types and return types

2012-01-09 Thread Ian Hickson
[] as the type for MessageEvent.ports. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

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

2012-01-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote: Can you put a note in the spec that we're

Re: [whatwg] DOMContentLoaded, load and current document readiness

2012-01-09 Thread Ian Hickson
merge those into one task as well. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Spec with Implementation Details Highlighted?

2012-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
can add an alternative style sheet or make the ?style=highlight URL show the annotations that are present, though. It wouldn't be something we'd advertise but if it's useful for you I'm happy to keep it around. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for IsSearchProviderInstalled / AddSearchProvider

2011-12-16 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Adam Shannon wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 18:39, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011, Adam Shannon wrote: I don't like having the only barrier between changing the default search engine for a user's browser be a single dialog box. This list

Re: [whatwg] Interaction of wbr and CSS white-space

2011-12-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 12/14/11 8:05 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: it was with respect tonobr, which we now define in terms of 'white-space'. Maybe that needs to change? How else would we define it? Whether it's wbr or nobr that gets defined in terms that violate CSS

Re: [whatwg] Reserved browsing context names

2011-12-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 12/14/11 7:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: One could actually argue that the pages that exist that use _main and _content actually work _better_ in current UAs with those values being interpreted as browsing context names than they would if they were

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

2011-12-15 Thread Ian Hickson
. http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-writer.html#idl-def-FileSaver I agree that an API like FileSaver is the right way to do this. Using input type=file wouldn't really fit well because that's more for providing data for upload than providing a file for writing. -- Ian Hickson

[whatwg] base elements security issue

2011-12-15 Thread Ian Hickson
:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Would other browser vendors be willing to change to only look atbase href inhead? Gecko used to implement that back when the spec said it. This caused site compat issues. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593807 (United checkin outside the US

Re: [whatwg] Remove maxWidth from fillText and strokeText

2011-12-15 Thread Ian Hickson
wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't an extra argument. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Comments on the dropzone attributes

2011-12-14 Thread Ian Hickson
be allowed. Well you'll have to pick a specific type when you actually receive the drop, so it seems simpler to just list the supported types. Otherwise you might find that actually you don't support any of the image/* types that were dragged in. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Specs for window.atob() and window.btoa()

2011-12-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Simon Pieters wrote: We're making this change in Opera (we'll ignore space characters in atob). I've updated the spec accordingly. Let me know if this causes any problems. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] Reserved browsing context names

2011-12-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 5/13/11 4:46 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: The sum total of what the spec has to say on the matter is User agents may support secondary browsing contexts, which are browsing contexts that form part of the user agent's interface, apart from the main

Re: [whatwg] Interaction of wbr and CSS white-space

2011-12-14 Thread Ian Hickson
pages that aren't being maintained any more. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] ol reversed with start value and underflow

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
anything normative at all; it just describes the meaning of the attribute. The spec tries to be very explicit about stuff. You should never have to read between the lines. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

[whatwg] !DOCTYPE htmlbodytablemathmifoo/mi/math/table and other parser questions

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
if the current node is not a table model element. So I've changed the spec at that point. Please let me know if that doesn't fix the test case or causes any other regressions. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Empty elements

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
the cost of changing, we should definitely consider it. At this point thought it might be better to just stick with void. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just

Re: [whatwg] Question about the bookmark in the adoption agency algorithm

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
can picture this as the bookmark being wrapped around the formatting element. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] HTML parsing: act as if...had been seen using what insertion mode?

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
to add a definition for act as if along with the definition for using the rules for. I've added a paragraph that mentions a definition for act as if. I haven't actually hyperlinked all the uses of the term as there's a lot of them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] document.write(\r): the spec doesn't say how to handle it.

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
pair as the last character? Can you elaborate on what difficulty this would present? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] ol reversed with start value and underflow

2011-12-12 Thread Ian Hickson
at 1? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: intent tag for Web Intents API

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
. Ideally, it would be good to have the current protocol and content type handlers and the Web Intent stuff all use a coherent and consistent API. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] Microdata feedback

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:19:02 +0200, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: Step 11 is If current has an itemprop attribute specified, add it to results. but should be If current has one or more

Re: [whatwg] Microdata - Handling the case where a string is upgraded to an object

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
the chance that the consuming code will be updated. Yeah. And authors would have to make sure the textContent is usable as fallback, which isn't at all a given, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] adding microdata to basic links

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
a itemprop=url href=http://smith.org/john;John Smith/a /span /p The microformats for this particular case is shorter still. I haven't changed microdata for this; the current design is an intentional trade-off between verbosity and predictability. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] microdata: itemprop in col tag

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
col, pointing to the tds that are part of that column. It's more verbose, but it doesn't rely on special HTML-only rules. That's a possible workaround for now, true. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] WebSocket framing

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
elsewhere). Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Enhancement request: change EventSource to allow cross-domain access

2011-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
to send credentials or not. When credentials aren't sent, you can use the * form. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] EventSource - Handling a charset in the content-type header

2011-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
of media type parameters? I always thought the media type itself was what strict checking should be done upon, but that its parameters were extension points, not points of failure. Fair enough. I've changed the spec to ignore parameters on text/event-stream. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: [whatwg] proposal: extend time to markup durations

2011-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
for machine-readable data, data, as well as an element specifically for time-related machine-readable data, time. The old time element, with its rendering rules and DOM API, are gone. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

[whatwg] PeerConnection feedback

2011-12-02 Thread Ian Hickson
to follow the aforementioned group. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mark Callow wrote: On 26/07/2011 14:30, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:09:40 +0530, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Another question is flash. As far as I have seen, there seems to be no option to specify

[whatwg] You can now subscribe to changes to the WHATWG spec on a per-topic basis

2011-11-22 Thread Ian Hickson
haven't fully tested this yet so if you run into any problems, e.g. I spam you every last edit fifteen times over, let me know. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] WHATWG on Google+

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Hickson
happy to support such an effort in whatever way I can. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] WHATWG on Google+

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 11/21/11 3:26 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: What's needed is a way to notice when changes to a particular piece happen. There isn't one. Which pieces do you _not_ want to be notified of changes to? Whatever doesn't affect code I maintain

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