Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-21 Thread Jorgen Horstink
Hi Giovanni, I haven't read your entire comment, but with your point eight will break backwards compatibility. As far as I know is HTML5 supposed to combine old and new. The problem with interfaces is that you can not simply change them. That's just a fact we have to deal with. jorgen On

Re: [whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

2008-09-27 Thread Jorgen Horstink
I understand the conceptual problem with this, but why don't you just use a large number? If the video is 1 sec, with a playcount set to 999 it will keep running at least three months; longer than any webpage is in memory. jorgen On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: target="_tab"

2008-06-13 Thread Jorgen Horstink
I've been following this discussion for a while and I agree a new '_tab' target is not necessary. To my mind _blank implies a new browser canvas. There are two implementations for creating a new canvas these days; a new window, or a new tab. The key question is: what does _blank mean? Does

Re: [whatwg] Using the HTML5 DOCTYPE as a new quirksmode switch

2007-03-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Mihai Sucan wrote: Le Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:46:15 +0200, Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:53:09 +0100, Asbjørn Ulsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a plain simple yet brilliant idea. Thanks. :) I'm sad there aren

Re: [whatwg] submission

2007-02-19 Thread Jorgen Horstink
hi, If you have something to say, just reply on some of the e-mails about the topics you are interested on. You do not have to register or join topics explicitly. ;) cheers On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:29 PM, yazid erman wrote: hi i would like to join your list in the following subjects: 1. R

Re: [whatwg] Expected behaviour when a is within an innerHTML fragment

2007-02-11 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: To take this from a discussion last month on atom-syntax: What is meant to happen if you set innerHTML of a where the set value has both a and an ? first of all the element can only be inserted in HTML documents. The spec states

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Jens Brueckmann wrote: To my mind a flag denotes a single point somewhere in the document and does not denote a range. So I associate it with the real-world analogy of a flag placed somewhere in the document. So I am not an advocate of I see what you mean. I am

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Jens Brueckmann wrote: a reference for the user, which is exactly what this element is for. It doesn't matter whether the user looks at it immediately, in 5 minutes, tomorrow, or in the distant future; it's there for when the user needs it. It comes to my mi

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
oncluding: to my mind a reference marker implies importance; we only highlight what is important for some use by some user. So, to blow the flame a little more, why not using a strong element with className 'highlight'? Jorgen Horstink Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michelf.com/

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:30:10 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not arguing against this. (Heck, I provided the idea for the second example.) I'm just saying it hasn't really been requested before and that I'm w

Re: [whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 --> HTML

2007-02-09 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Feb 9, 2007, at 4:31 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:55:51 +0530, David Latapie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:07:49 +0100, Jorgen Horstink wrote: - LH (caption for list! A must-have) Why not using the title attribute? Do yo

Re: [whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 --> HTML

2007-02-08 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:00 PM, David Latapie wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:17:32 +, Nicholas Shanks wrote: On 6 Feb 2007, at 07:57, Karl Dubost wrote: unlikely. "div" and "span" elements didn't exist in HTML+. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_1.html Ironically I was just readin

[whatwg] contentEditable & events

2007-01-20 Thread Jorgen Horstink
I've been reading section 6.2 about contentEditable. To my mind it should be explicitly stated that events enabled and scripting is turned on in editable elements. One of the key differences between contentEditable and designMode is how they handle scripting and events. So my question is, sho

Re: [whatwg] contenteditable="" values and isContentEditable

2007-01-19 Thread Jorgen Horstink
I second Anne's opinion about a new attribute isContentEditable. Both Internet Explorer and Safari have implemented this already although Safari's support for inherit has a few bugs. It really is needed for compatibility. The empty string indeed causes the element to be contentEditable in

Re: [whatwg] Sandboxing scripts in pages

2007-01-13 Thread Jorgen Horstink
se problems that can work. What I'm saying is that having some way of isolating a script would be ideal and I was curious as to what others had to say about it. - James Jorgen Horstink wrote: On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:30 PM, James M Snell wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: [snip] Frame

Re: [whatwg] Sandboxing scripts in pages

2007-01-12 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:30 PM, James M Snell wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: [snip] Frames are a terrible solution. The content is after all a part of the page it's hosted in, but we want to sandbox it to make sure it can't do any harm. The proposed alternative is severely underdefined

[whatwg] Doctype conformance requirements

2006-05-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
Hi, The conformance requirements section[1] states that: /HTML documents that use the new features described in this specification />/and that are />/served over the wire (e.g. by HTTP) must be sent as text/html and must />/start with the />/following DOCTYPE: . / So, if I read this correctl

[whatwg] fullscreen event?

2006-05-10 Thread Jorgen Horstink
On 5/6/06, Dean Edwards http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org>> wrote: >/ Martijn wrote: /> >/ > I was thinking, maybe a fullscreen (and a normalscreen event or /> >/ > something like that) event would be useful? /> >/ > Also, a fullScreen property (which returns true or false) o

[whatwg] contentEditable and the user editing break action

2006-05-09 Thread Jorgen Horstink
“The contenteditable attribute is a common attribute. User agents must support this attribute on all HTML elements.” How about del? It sounds odd to me to allow content of a del element to be editable. Second, I am interested why User Editing actions are mostly UA-dependent. To my mind there