Re: [whatwg] The div element

2008-02-28 Thread html
I'm still not clear to me how is anything more than a . HTML4 said: "The DIV and SPAN elements, in conjunction with the id and class attributes, offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents" (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-DIV). Isn't that the very thing th

Re: [whatwg] When closing the browser

2008-02-28 Thread html
David, The onbeforeunload event handler can be used in this manner. See these posts: http://www.nczonline.net/archive/2006/3/311 http://www.nczonline.net/archive/2006/3/312 -Nicholas   I made a quick look through the HTML 5 Working Draft table of contents, as well as Anne's "d

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-02-28 Thread html
eading the rest, I was disappointed to find out that >wasn't the intent. I'd rename this element as or >to avoid such misunderstandings. > >I was confused by the name of the "dialog" element in exactly the same >way you were, originally thinking i

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-02-28 Thread html
Screen readers currently ignore elements with styles of display:none and visibility:hidden. In order to hide elements from the screen but allow screen readers to see them, we typically use tricks such as text-indent:-1 and such. I would like something to indicate that text should not be ren

[whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-02-28 Thread html
I had posted this on my personal blog: http://nczonline.net/blog/2008/2/28/thoughts_on_html_5. Ian requested I join the mailing list to continue the discussion, so here it is: I've just finished taking a look at the working draft of HTML 5 and though