Re: [whatwg] Media query for bandwidth ??

2017-06-25 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
arkup advertisments on web pages do not exist. Same for tracking scripts etc.. Note that browsers contain tools to limit loading speed to e.g. UMTS/3G. Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] proposal for new inputmode: digits

2016-07-25 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Eitan Adler writes: > On 25 July 2016 at 14:59, Nils Dagsson Moskopp < > n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > >> Eitan Adler writes: >> > See also the remainder of my email. >> >> I do not understand. What do you mean? >> > > Please re-r

Re: [whatwg] proposal for new inputmode: digits

2016-07-25 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Eitan Adler writes: > On 25 July 2016 at 13:32, Nils Dagsson Moskopp < > n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > >> Eitan Adler writes: >> >> > At the moment if you'd like the user to enter *only* digits (no >> separators, >> > +, -, e

Re: [whatwg] proposal for new inputmode: digits

2016-07-25 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
d so the minimum and maximum > are really proxies for length. Please continue to use text input elements and the pattern attribute. Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Should navigator.language and and/or HTTP Accept-Language include locale?

2016-05-25 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
he claim. Do you have evidence for/against it improving user experience on web pages? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Should navigator.language and and/or HTTP Accept-Language include locale?

2016-05-23 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> equivalent. For example, the #1 search result for “infer user locale” > is <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-accept-lang-locales>, > which states, "since many applications need to know the locale of the > user, common practice has used Accept-Language to de

Re: [whatwg] JavaScript dialogs blocking user experience

2016-04-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Darin Adler writes: >> On Apr 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp >> wrote: >> >> Clearly distinguishing between browser chrome and the current document >> interface-wise can be helpful here. While it is incredibly easy to fool >> people in general,

Re: [whatwg] JavaScript dialogs blocking user experience

2016-04-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
updated from time to tome <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987>. > > — Darin -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Unicode -> ASCII copy/paste fallback

2015-10-09 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
efine their language representations using > ASCII. > > If you have nothing more useful to discuss beyond uninformed, > opinionated naysaying, I'll be leaving this thread lie. I find that last paragraph entirely superfluous. Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Persistent state for homescreen web apps (without reloading each time)

2015-10-09 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
apps >> > should retain their loaded state when switching from foreground to >> > background and back to foreground again? >> > >> > Chrome behaves exactly as expected, however, iOS reloads the web app >> > each time >> > >> > http://zacster.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/broken-web-apps-launched-from- >> > ios-home.html >> > >> > -- >> > Zac Spitzer >> > +61 405 847 168 >> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Supporting feature tests of untestable features

2015-08-31 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Roger Hågensen writes: > On 2015-04-09 11:43, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: >> Roger Hågensen writes: >> >>> Myself I have to confess that I tend to use caniuse a lot myself. I use >>> it to check how far back a feature goes in regards to browser versions >&g

Re: [whatwg] APIs to interrogate default outgoing HTTP headers, i.e. Accept-Encoding

2015-08-10 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Ron Waldon writes: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 at 08:31 Nils Dagsson Moskopp < > n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > >> I do not understand that use case. It reads incredibly convoluted to >> me. The UA controls the transport anyway – it should not make any >> pra

Re: [whatwg] APIs to interrogate default outgoing HTTP headers, i.e. Accept-Encoding

2015-08-10 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
lah.js.gz instead of blah.js all the time. I do not understand that use case. It reads incredibly convoluted to me. The UA controls the transport anyway – it should not make any practical difference to a script how the data is transmitted. Btw, why can AWS CloudFront not into c

Re: [whatwg] New feature: better integration with browser find interface

2015-08-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
hat, browsers do that. The browser I use (conkeror) can already limit commands to specific elements or DOM nodes. For example, prefixing a “c” (copy) command with “* i” limits it to images, prefixing it with “* *” limits it to DOM nodes. The sidebar could be an element or something similar as I understand. I think mixing of text and meta-text often creates problems. Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2015-08-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Could you explain how „format“ would work if the content of the element can not be formated like that? How could attributes be re-formated? Cameron Jones writes: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp < > n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > >> Q

Re: [whatwg] New feature: better integration with browser find interface

2015-06-23 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
that the browser UI already uses. Some sites – e.g. GitHub – I can navigate only without JavaScript. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] A mask="" advisory flag for

2015-06-16 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> > The reason for treating the icon as a mask is that we want to enforce having > a monochrome shape, specifically for our pinned tabs feature. > > Regards, > Maciej > >> On Jun 15, 2015, at 6:52 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp >> wrote: >> >> If I am not mi

Re: [whatwg] Icon mask and theme color

2015-06-16 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
mask and retain the theme color meta value. Why isn't this done? One could have a properly colored icon for one purpose and use the outline of the same icon for the flat design staff. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] A mask="" advisory flag for

2015-06-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
If I am not mistaken, it should be possible to use the outline shape while not requiring 100% black color for every path in the SVG icon. As I see it, a proper icon has to have a distinctive outline anyway. Karl Dubost writes: > Nils, > > Le 16 juin 2015 à 10:03, Nils Dagsson Mosk

Re: [whatwg] A mask="" advisory flag for

2015-06-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
e requirement for SVG favicons with 100% black paths comes from. I do not understand why an SVG favicon cannot have proper SVG colors so there are no interoperability issues with it. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Using @type on to specify the computer language

2015-05-16 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Taylor Hunt writes: > Hello, > > I was wondering about the best way of indicating a element's > contained computer language for syntax highlighting. The > specifications are quite clear that using @lang for that is abuse, so > many existing implementations use a data-lang attribute, class name,

Re: [whatwg] Supporting feature tests of untestable features

2015-04-09 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
, following a progressive enhancement workflow reduces the need for testing, as the simple (“fallback”) version does usually work if a script does not execute and I can always test it by turning of scripts. Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Allow disabling of default scroll restoration behavior

2015-04-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
g a link and then not being able to get back to the position on the page you came from is very frustrating. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Modify the Page Visibility spec to let UA's take into account whether iframes are visible on the screen

2015-03-31 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
browsers, you can go to about:config and set media.autoplay.enabled to “false”. Also, the NoScript browser extension can make media click-to-play by default. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] HTML6 single-page apps without Javascript proposal now on Github

2015-03-24 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
e careful with “all” quantifiers next time. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Page refresh interface

2015-03-23 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
t alone allowed to interact with this event. FYI, Firefox has a “Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page.” option, Internet Explorer has “Allow META REFRESH” and Opera had a similar feature. AFAIK, Chrome and Safari do not have these options. -- Nils Dagsson

Re: [whatwg] HTML6 proposal for single-page apps without Javascript

2015-03-23 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
d but I believe this represents peoples wide > dissatisfaction with having to use Javascript frameworks. I agree in that buzz does not necessarily mean your proposal has merit. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Persistent and temporary storage

2015-03-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
.org/dev-guide/2.3.0/org.tizen.mobile.native.apireference/group__CAPI__WEB__DOWNLOAD__MODULE.html) > > > Regards, > -- > Janusz Majnert > Senior Software Engineer > Samsung R&D Institute Poland > Samsung Electronics -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Unicode -> ASCII copy/paste fallback

2015-02-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
use I > am writing a documentation generation tool for a programming language > with right arrows represented as -> but would like to render them as > →. I would suggest to use OpenType ligatures for that. You could reasonably create a ligature font that renders any occurence of “->” as “→”. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Unicode -> ASCII copy/paste fallback

2015-02-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
once noticed that where elinks does show “ベルントとウンターアルターバッハの謎”, links shows “BeRuN6TotoU6N6Ta-6A6RuTa-6BaTUHano***”. Now while I cannot read any japanese, I wonder if this transliteration seems unreasonable to you. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Confusion about node1.replace(node2)

2015-02-09 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
.replace(John)” takes Jane as the first (implicit) argument and John as the second (explicit), so I read it like “replace Jane and John”. This may look ambiguous – until you remember who is instructed to to the replacement, namely Jane. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] for currency input

2015-01-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> Thoughts? I think that float is simply the wrong data type for fractional amounts of currency. Let me tell you an abrasive programmer joke regarding that: bool gender; int phone_number; float money_amount; Cheers, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents

2015-01-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
/intent proposal? > > Note! Firefox allows right clicking any URL and choosing to Bookmark it, > and IE does the same but it called Favorites there instead, in either > case I assume that rel=bookmark is ignored and the title is also ignored > as the "test0" link which does not specify rel bookmark is treated > identically to them. Opera and Chrome does not seem to allow right > clicking a URL and bookmark it. As I do not have Safari I have no idea > what it does in these cases. > > -- > Roger "Rescator" Hågensen. > Freelancer - http://www.EmSai.net/ > -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] alternate ids for elements

2014-12-03 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ng resources on this when an empty `` (or, more > traditionally, an empty ``) suffices to give the same > functionality. I believe this to be wrong – an empty element does not give the same functionality; a wrapping or element, however, does that. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp

Re: [whatwg] alternate ids for elements

2014-12-03 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ml#παράδειγμα"; but cannot because >> the URL needs to be used in an environment where Greek letters cannot be >> used. But this sounds like a rather rare occasion. > > It's yet another use case that could be addressed that way. I think this use case could be solved by either URL encoding or transliterating to ASCII. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-16 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Roger Hågensen writes: > On 2014-11-13 18:19, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: >> AFAIK, all of these interface details lie outside the scope of the >> HTML specification (and rightly so, IMHO). If you need a standard >> symbol for bookmarks I suggest to use U+1F516 BOOKMARK,

Re: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-16 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
et, thoughts appreciated. I would actually love it if I got something more like the search extensions, as they do work unobtrusively and without scripting. I also find creating OpenSearch XML easier than scripting stuff. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
also wonder if a standardized icon/symbol should exist for a > "Bookmark/Share" button on the surrounding UI of a browser. > Opera has a heart symbol, Firefox has a star and clipboard/list thingy, > IE has a star, and Chrome has a star. > > A star has been used for Favorite

Re: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
bookmark> The section on the bookmark link type in W3C HTML can be found here: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-bookmark> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
the need to use rel="canonical" in the long run. I do not understand. Why should one invent a rel value (“share”) that conveys the same semantics as an already existing one (“canonical”) ? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Shared storage

2014-10-28 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Melvin Carvalho writes: > On 28 October 2014 21:32, Nils Dagsson Moskopp < > n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > >> Melvin Carvalho writes: >> >> > On 15 February 2014 03:04, Brett Zamir wrote: >> > >> >> *The opportunity and current

Re: [whatwg] Shared storage

2014-10-28 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
? >> > > Because that's a terrible user experience? If that is indeed the case, the terrible user experience is likely a feature of your user agent. Many mobile UAs currently offer several alternatives to the standard file-picker, no change in HTML needed. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Passwords

2014-10-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
password (or passphrase) in the client is the right way to > go, but currently javascript is needed to make that possible. Do you know about HTTP digest authentication? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Controlling the User-Agent header from script

2014-10-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Roger Hågensen writes: > On 2014-10-13 16:16, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: >> Anne van Kesteren writes: >> >>> Per XMLHttpRequest User-Agent has been off limits for script. >> Reporting UA “Mozilla/4.0 (MSIE 6.0';DROP TABLE browsers;--"{!=&})” >>

Re: [whatwg] Controlling the User-Agent header from script

2014-10-13 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
nk it conforms to RFC 2616, section 14.43. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] (no subject)

2014-10-12 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
iven that > it is happening anyway, I'd rather go with an open API than > proprietary ones where we don't know what is happening. I question the assumption that an open standard for something ethically questionable is always desirable. An open standard for voting computers could, for example, lead to more use of voting computers and thus help those who wish commit large scale electoral fraud. I must admit that I am not nearly knowledgeable enough regarding ethical and legal issues surrounding disclosure of medical data. I just think that “shoot first, ask questions later” does not fit in there well. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Notifications and service workers

2014-10-12 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ople to only produce notifications that the user has to clear or none at all. If a notification is not important, just do not use one. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Adding a property to navigator for getting device model

2014-09-30 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ed”. The first lets me think that new features could never solve old problems – after all, if the UAs would be updated, one could just fix the bugs that existed. The second lets me think that no one – including site authors – would implement device detection and appropriate discrimination correctly

Re: [whatwg] Adding a property to navigator for getting device model

2014-09-24 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ow is if some devices have some capabilities. That something feature detection provides. The UA version or hardware almost always constitutes a hidden query for something else. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Adding a property to navigator for getting device model

2014-09-24 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
rough the UA string. That we > expose the same information in a more easy-to-consume property in the > DOM. > > My suggested name would be navigator.deviceModel > > Thoughts? This would lead to yet another entry point for device discrimination. Please do no

Re: [whatwg] Web API for Health Sensors

2014-09-12 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Erik Reppen writes: > It's just a more compact data format that happens to evaluate as an object > literal in JS Not always: <http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Wake Lock API

2014-08-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
"Tab Atkins Jr." writes: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: >> […] >> >> Seems to me a declarative solution (like CSS) might be appropriate. >> >> @media screen { >> video:playing { >> wake-lo

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Wake Lock API

2014-08-16 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> user close the in which the video is rendered. It seems quite > easy to end up with a race where if the user close the right > when the video ends, that release() would get called twice. Or if the > user pause the video first and then close the that release() > would get called twice. Seems to me a declarative solution (like CSS) might be appropriate. @media screen { video:playing { wake-lock: display 15s; } } article.recipe:target { wake-lock: display; } -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Fetch Objects and scripts/stylesheets

2014-08-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ug issues > that could easily be found with this method. This means more analytics and logging – privacy intrusions justified by the sheer complexity of systems created by several thousand monkeys on thousands of electronic typewriters. Incidentally, more fingerprinting. I do not see any immediate

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Wake Lock API

2014-08-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> > If you instead were able to create a "display" lock with a 15 minute > timeout, the platform could use the longest value of 15 minutes and > the platform screen timeout. > > And note that you in normal use cases *do* want the normal screen > timeout to kick in when a "display" lock is released. I've seen the > lack of this many times and it's really annoying. What happens is that > after you're done watching a 30 minute movie, the application releases > the lock and the screen immediately shuts off. Attempting to work > around this by holding the lock for a few minutes past the movie ends > means that the application has to guess how long timeout the user has > configured his device to. “Do not lock the screen during a movie and some time afterwards” is something that can be done by a user agent quite well. Flash videos never got this right. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] How to determine content-type of file: protocol

2014-08-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
d probably other operating systems.) >> > Maybe no. > (1) it's a standard of *nix desktops, I doubt MS widows will adopt it, I see this as pure speculation. > and maybe it's a bit heavy for mobile OS; Widely used mobile operating systems are based on Unix (e.g. iOS, Android). Based on your measurements, how long does file(1) take? > (2) many packaged web apps are ported from (and share codes with) normal > web apps, and most web servers simply deduce mime type from file extension, > so doing the same thing in UAs probably results in better > compatibility. It may not be possible to deduce the media type from the file extension alone, since there can be parameters to the media type like “charset” or “codecs”, e.g. “text/html; charset=UTF-8” or “audio/ogg; codecs=vorbis”. > (3) UAs are already required to do mime type sniffing, which should be > enough to correct most wrong supplied-type. Is this interoperable enough yet for the purpose at hand? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Canvas-Only Document Type

2014-07-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
class of users will be able to see and use it. We had that scenario already when “web” developers used Flash for everything. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-07-01 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
vironment that may or may not exist within a mobile (power-limited) device? Again, this reminds me of the „How can I find out how much RAM I can maximally allocate“ questions. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Inline pronounce element (Tab Atkins Jr.)

2014-06-05 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Nobody >> implements that, but nobody implements anything new either, of course. >> >> ~TJ > > I think it'd be a lot easier for sites, say along the lines of > Wikipedia, to support inline markup to allow users to get a word > referenced at the beginning of an article, for example, pronounced > accurately. > > Brett Is there any reason one cannot use the element for pronunciation? Example: Elfriede Jelinek (ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk) -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: toDataURL “image/png” compression control

2014-06-02 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
cost to you :-) > Now we need to convince the other vendors. Do they want it, want more, want > it in a different way? As an author, I do not see why I should ever want to tell a browser losslessly encoding an image any other quality argument different from „maximum speed“ or „mini

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: toDataURL “image/png” compression control

2014-05-29 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
; rather than "quality > level", since with PNG it has no effect on quality, only the file size > and time it takes to compress. What benefit does it give then if the result is the same perceptually? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ation uses too much memory, it will be terminated with prejudice. Of course, authors can not know what “too much” means – systems are too diverse for that. This gives an incentive to err on the side of caution, as trying to allocate and use all available memory is most likely fa

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2014-03-08 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
street, like: | | 1 2 3 4 5 | I | + +-- = = = = = = + +-- 10 9 8 7 6 | I | | | -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2014-03-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
a duration using is fine – asking for a calendar year, however, is obviously a type error. <http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Supporting more address levels in autocomplete

2014-03-02 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ould be an argument against generic address extension input fields for free form text that does not fit into any other input field? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] hit regions: limited set of elements for fallback content

2014-02-22 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Steve Faulkner writes: > Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > >> But still, people (with the exception of Paul Graham) stopped using >> for layouts > > if only that were true, take a look at https://www.google.co.uk or grep the > html data available from http://webdevdata.o

Re: [whatwg] hit regions: limited set of elements for fallback content

2014-02-21 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Charles McCathie Nevile writes: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:38:18 +0100, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: > >> Dominic Mazzoni writes: >> >>> First a high-level thought. >>> >>> I'm happy to keep chasing after "legitimate" use-cases i

Re: [whatwg] hit regions: limited set of elements for fallback content

2014-02-20 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ou >> solve the remainder by improving law enforcement. The same applies here. >> We solve it by providing better tools for custom text editing controls >> (e.g. better contenteditable APIs), and by making it non-conforming to >> abuse for this purpose. >> > > I'd suggest a different analogy: suppose your company makes foam pipe > insulation and you discover people are buying your product and using it as > a swimming pool flotation device. Do you try to stop them from using your > product and try to get them to purchase other pool toys, or do you start > selling your pipe insulation directly to the sporting goods stores? You might check if the pipe insulation is toxic, first. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2014-02-20 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Qebui Nehebkau writes: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: >> CE or BE or ROC do not specify units (successor elements), but points of >> reference (neutral elements). In my examples, the unit for a time offset >> is always the duration

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2014-02-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Qebui Nehebkau writes: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: >> I consider year-era-constructs as names for a duration of time. We can >> have different names than refer to the same duration of time, like "2014 >> CE" and "255

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2014-02-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Qebui Nehebkau writes: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: >> The number of a calendar year really does not fit into to the number >> model. Year numbering conveys something different than floating point >> numbers or even integers. Standard

Re: [whatwg] for year input

2014-02-18 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> I would say that just not using separators for four-digit numbers would be > an easy and effective solution. This rule may not be so useful in general: Digit grouping using dots, commas or spaces can be useful when comparing smaller and larger numbers. Consider the following grouping of : [ 210 000 ] [+|-] [ 19 250 ] [+|-] [ 1 500 ] [+|-] Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Cross-Origin Cookies Sharing Proposal

2013-06-21 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ubled by this issue. It there's a proposal like > this, it would be very nice. Can you elaborate? Why would an account management system need sessions? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Request: Implementing a Geo Location URI Scheme

2013-06-04 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
menting what you want: <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/geo-schema-handler/> The browser Midori already handles geo URIs, Android has a “geo” intent: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-May/028718.html> <http://developer.android.com/guide/ap

Re: [whatwg] links within an iframe cannot replace the parent document?

2013-05-29 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
but the original document is still online (this happened multiple times in the past and is bound to happen again). -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Proposing: "autoscroll" event

2013-05-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
"Tab Atkins Jr." schrieb am Tue, 14 May 2013 14:34:09 -0700: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: > > […] > > > > Please explain how a document subresource can be “accidentally” > > referred to by a URL be “accidental”. I d

Re: [whatwg] Proposing: "autoscroll" event

2013-05-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
and it. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] suggestions for the Notifications API (http://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/)

2013-05-03 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
his isn't in the > api, and I think having this would be a great Scenario: “You need to enable notifications to view this web site.” With less sarcasm: I think this can and will be horribly abused. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] API to delay the document load event

2013-04-29 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
s – making it easier to not send declarative markup and encourage people to violate the principle of least power. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] 2D canvas feature proposal: text decoration

2013-04-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
g – authors generally do not care, even if they know about it. FYI, I have problems with low-contrast text, but at least I can correct for that using user stylesheets. How would I do that with canvas text? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Fetch: crossorigin="anonymous" and XMLHttpRequest

2013-03-20 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
all), it still seems better if anonymous is > anonymous. I'd suggest using HMACs instead of hashes for signed action URLs. Right? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Priority between and content-disposition

2013-03-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Email to..." or even "Open" > a similar but different dialog would obviously be needed in that case. I find all of this approach insanely complex for a negligible benefit. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] A plea to Hixie to adopt

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
I may have done something wrong with my user stylesheets in Chromium – it seems counter-intuitive that a Element does not create a hyperlink: -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] metadata attribute for media

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
se, which is pretty much that web content wants to do more > sophisticated things with the metadata than the user-agent's > standardized parsing allows. If one cares to that extent, and is > already handling format differences, dealing with vendor variation on > top isn't that

Re: [whatwg] use of article to markup comments

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
t ways. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] use of article to markup comments

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ckend yesterday and plan to add this feature) Without having one interoperable way all that becomes a lot harder. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
h noting that every part of the note I originally sent > is possible to look up and you can try finding proper way to phrase > things (I have no experience in writing documentation of this sort). I do not understand. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-01-31 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
the protocol is implemented, you're in the IRC > channel able to garnish that support instantly. We probably misunderstood each other. Protocols are mentioned at the beginning of a URL; having a protocol attribute on a element would therefore be redundant. -- Nils Dagsson Mos

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-01-31 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Gryllida schrieb am Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:01:26 +1030: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 05:24:58 +0100 > Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > > > Gryllida schrieb am Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:26:00 > > +1030: > > > > > == Summary == > > > To have some universal, standard

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-01-31 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
page and the IRC channel? Also, I would call the link relation „chat“ or something, there are other protocols than IRC, e.g. XMPP. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

[whatwg] Possible Sub-Delimiters in Fragments (Was: Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links)

2012-12-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Regarding U+0040 COMMERCIAL AT: 8 id attributes containing “@” 0 id attributes containing “@” followed by something containing “=” 208 href attributes containing “@” in fragment 15 href attributes containing @ followed by something containing “=” in fragment Regarding U+007E TILDE: 2 id at

Re: [whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-12-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
e might be going through a playlist and > you surely don't want "t=30" to cause every song or video in the > playlist to start at 30s. This is why my feature proposal includes the element id – so one can refer to a specific element. Have you experimented with the polyfill and found breakage in playlists? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

Re: [whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-12-19 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Philip Jägenstedt schrieb am Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:19:14 +0100: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:25:19 +0100, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > wrote: > > > Nils Dagsson Moskopp schrieb am > > Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:01:40 +0100: > > > >> […] > >> > >> I

Re: [whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-12-18 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Nils Dagsson Moskopp schrieb am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:01:40 +0100: > […] > > I therefore prefer a declarative way of linking to timed resources > embedded in their original context. Working on a polyfill right now. <http://daten.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/src/media-fragments-html-

Re: [whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-12-18 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Ian Hickson schrieb am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:37:12 + (UTC): > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > > > > Use Case Description: > > > > Linking to specific fragments of media is possible via media > > fragment URIs [1]. However, it i

Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
le devices can be a > violation of a web-service license agreement, or a web-service may > bind several devices to the same profile. I prefer working towards a world where such licensing schemes do not exist. Artificial scarcity introduced by licensing restrictions governing the use of sof

Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-14 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ormation in unintended ways." I suggest you read the following analysis critical of Apple's approach: <http://www.pskl.us/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/iPhone-Applications-Privacy-Issues.pdf> -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

[whatwg] Fw: Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-11-26 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Sorry, forgot to include list. Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:09:01 +0100 From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp To: Silvia Pfeiffer Subject: Re: [whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links Silvia Pfeiffer schrieb am Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:17:34 +1100: > […] > > What is currently po

Re: [whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-11-25 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
aScript hoops. Maybe an element-specific second-hash is possible? Something like <http://example.org/podcast.html#episode1#t=01:23> could link to the audio element on the page at a specific point in time. (I am just conjecturing now, though – is that even legal URL synthax?) Greetings,

[whatwg] Feature Request: Media Elements as Targets for Links

2012-11-24 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
ly see what a discussion about a media resource refers to. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>

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