Re: [whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

2012-08-21 Thread Steve Dennis
While it's unlikely that screen resolution will go above 2x in the near future, should we be taking into account the zooming of specific elements that might result in the need for larger artwork? (take icons, that can scale all the way up to 512px or above) On 13/08/2012, at 5:39 PM, Henri

Re: [whatwg] Prevent a document from being manipulated by a top document

2011-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
standardized). Am 02.08.2011, 12:30 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:21:31 +0200, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: [...] The X-Frame-Options header addresses this if I understand the concern correctly.

Re: [whatwg] Prevent a document from being manipulated by a top document

2011-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 02.08.2011, 12:38 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:33:18 +0200, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: I took a look at the X-Frame-Options and it only disallows displaying in a frame, not forbidding only script access. What kind of script

Re: [whatwg] Prevent a document from being manipulated by a top document

2011-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 02.08.2011, 13:00 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:48:06 +0200, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: Say, there's a site which uses an autologin facility to automatically log their users in when the site is opened. Malicious guy #1 prepares

Re: [whatwg] Prevent a document from being manipulated by a top document

2011-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 02.08.2011, 13:12 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com If users cannot trust their userscripts and addons (provided they can do unsafe things) they have lost already. True. We do not make standards solely to protect inexperienced users. Thank you for your insight on this

Re: [whatwg] input type=password... restrict reading value from JS?

2011-07-10 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Hello Alex, may I ask: Why? This would only cover a few cases of cross-site-scripting attacks. It would not make a website more secure. As to the suggestion, I have one little concern: It should not be possible to WRITE those SecurePassword values. You only wrote reading... Also it would

Re: [whatwg] input type=password... restrict reading value from JS?

2011-07-10 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
How about deleting the value if the input type is changed away from the secure password input type AND that the secure password can only be submitted to a similar URI. Am 10.07.2011, 12:44 Uhr, schrieb Alex Vincent ajvinc...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Michal Zalewski

Re: [whatwg] input type=password... restrict reading value from JS?

2011-07-10 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Hello, Opera, for example, requires you to hit the wand or login button before it even does any autocompletion. I wish all browsers would implement it like this instead of just... Filling it out before the user can interact. Makes reading easy. Am 10.07.2011, 21:17 Uhr, schrieb Michal

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-06-06 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 03.06.2011, 15:16 Uhr, schrieb Eduard Pascual herenva...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: This grants the ability for any content provider to use an explicit Content-Disposition: inline HTTP header to effectively block download links

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-06-03 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 03.06.2011, 10:23 Uhr, schrieb Eduard Pascual herenva...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: By the way, another point that we have to discuss: Which tag should a browser favor. The one in HTTP or the other one in HTML? Is that really

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-06-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 02.06.2011, 21:58 Uhr, schrieb Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michal Zalewski lcam...@coredump.cx wrote: I don't think the issue raised was about getting people to save files, though. If you can get someone to click a link, you can already point them at

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-05-26 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Hi Boris, Am 26.05.2011, 20:15 Uhr, schrieb Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu: On 5/26/11 2:06 PM, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote: I believe it forces the extension to match the MIME type; if the type text/plain the saved filename will be Important_Security_Update.exe.txt. Ah, alright

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-05-26 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 26.05.2011, 21:08 Uhr, schrieb Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu: Yes, that's the one saving grace. Usually is key, though. Usually, damn. There is little practical difference for the user between running a binary and running a perl script, and sneaking in a text file with a .pl

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-05-26 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
, yep... If browsers implement the filename (+ extension) name changing we should make it a MUST to implement security... - Dennis Joachimsthaler

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2011-05-26 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 26.05.2011, 22:58 Uhr, schrieb Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de: On 2011-05-26 22:54, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote: Am 26.05.2011, 22:53 Uhr, schrieb Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu: Probably no one, to a first approximation, but we were specifically talking about non-Windows systems

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a tab visibility API

2010-12-10 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 08.12.2010, 23:09 Uhr, schrieb Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Alex Komoroske komoro...@chromium.org wrote: =visibilitychanged= A simple event, fired at the document object immediately after document.visibility transitions between visibility states.

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-12-07 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 07.12.2010, 10:13 Uhr, schrieb Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de: It would be great if those scripts could just get fixed. Do you actually think that would HAPPEN? I think not. Better have people get rid of them entirely. Though that wouldn't happen either. I'm still all for such a

Re: [whatwg] pre teen nudes, hc loli, underage lolita sites

2010-11-14 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 10.11.2010, 17:03 Uhr, schrieb Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: Yes. This is disgraceful. Am 10.11.2010, 10:02 Uhr, schrieb Alexandre Morgaut alexandre.morg...@4d.com: Please ban this spammer Done. Sorry everyone

Re: [whatwg] pre teen nudes, hc loli, underage lolita sites

2010-11-10 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Yes. This is disgraceful. Am 10.11.2010, 10:02 Uhr, schrieb Alexandre Morgaut alexandre.morg...@4d.com: Please ban this spammer On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Alexandre Гоннов wrote: HD Video: http://agasearch.info/?full-hd-video.avi Mirror 1:

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-09-28 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 26.09.2010, 21:43 Uhr, schrieb Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, den...@efjot.de wrote: That's unnecessary; I guarantee that I will read and reply to every e-mail sent to this mailing list that provides new feedback. All pending e-mails are tracked here:

Re: [whatwg] Low Memory Event

2010-09-28 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 28.09.2010, 01:01 Uhr, schrieb timeless timel...@gmail.com: tl;dr of my previous post: it's impossible to know how much memory is available in the future. How much memory you're currently using is something that /could/ probably be provided in the near future. *However*, there might be a

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-09-26 Thread dennis
This thread has in fact already received an official reply: I am sorry, I didn't recognize you were one of the managers here. I should've read more. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-August/028148.html That e-mail received a reply that I haven't responded to yet:

[whatwg] multipart/form-data when POSTing through an XMLHttpRequest (FileApi file)

2010-09-17 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Hello, I do currently wonder, after a lot of hours of researching, if there is any possibility to upload files with values through XMLHttpRequest? The XmlHttpRequest just ends the request after the first send. There should be a more thought out API for multipart/form-data since we have

Re: [whatwg] multipart/form-data when POSTing through an XMLHttpRequest (FileApi file)

2010-09-17 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 17.09.2010, 20:46 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:41:19 +0200, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: (Or, any knowledge how it is done today? I can't find anything about it! Crazy.) Of course: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest

Re: [whatwg] multipart/form-data when POSTing through an XMLHttpRequest (FileApi file)

2010-09-17 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Am 17.09.2010, 20:56 Uhr, schrieb Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de: Am 17.09.2010, 20:46 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:41:19 +0200, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.de wrote: (Or, any knowledge how it is done today? I can't find anything

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Jeremy Keith jer...@adactio.com wrote: Dennis wrote: ... Hang on... isn't the mechanism for this already available via the type attribute? For example: a href=/path/to/image.jpg type=image/jpegFull size image/a That wouldn't help in this case... A browser could offer a preference

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Ben Schwarz ben.schw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really not too sure what pre-existing problem this actually solves. Given that a server sets the correct mime-types for a given resource, we know what type it is already. Yes, since we don't want to set MIME-Types. I want to be able to set what a

Re: [whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-08-02 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net wrote: On 2 Aug 2010, at 17:21, Michael Kozakewich wrote: I agree that it's not good to force users in general. However, this attribute can be implemented only as a hint for browsers to display Open/Save dialog. Users wouldn't be forced to download the

[whatwg] Content-Disposition property for a tags

2010-07-30 Thread Dennis Joachimsthaler
Hello, I have an idea which would be very cool for HTML5. Having a Content-Disposition property on a tags which does the same as the HTTP Header. For example changing the file name of the file to be downloaded or rather have a image file download rather than it being shown in the browser

Re: [whatwg] 'Main Part of the Content' Idiom

2010-06-04 Thread Steve Dennis
The purpose of all the new tags, is so the machine can figure out what is NOT main content, and assume everything else is. With proper use of sectioning and aside as well as header and footers this can be mostly achieved today. On 4/06/2010, at 5:39 PM, Daniel Persson wrote: I am not

Re: [whatwg] RFC: input type=username

2010-05-05 Thread Steve Dennis
isn't really an option. Someone tell me if I'm wrong on that though, I'm just a designer :) -- Steve Dennis www.subcide.com

Re: [whatwg] RFC: input type=username

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Dennis
. Saying why bother? about all the broken sites on the web totally defeats the purpose of what everyone here's trying to achieve. -- Steve Dennis www.subcide.com

Re: [whatwg] img as a layout tool to describe the displayed region of a CSS background-image

2010-04-28 Thread Steve Dennis
lots of us will look back on sprites the same way we see spacer.gifs, which were a necessary evil at the time. - Steve Dennis Yes, this is using the img as a layout tool. Specifically, you're using the img to avoid specifying width and height in CSS, and to enable further layout hacks