Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2011-03-02 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 3/2/2011 12:07 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Charles Pritchard wrote: My understanding is that those items are covered by DOM, and WebIDL, which HTML inherits from. There's a bulk of APIs under the "webapps" group, covering much of the rest. I think that H

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > My understanding is that those items are covered by DOM, and WebIDL, which > HTML inherits from. > There's a bulk of APIs under the "webapps" group, covering much of the rest. > > I think that HTML spec is primarily a format spec, not an A

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 3/1/2011 2:41 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote, in part (as, in the interests of making progress, I have not cited or responded to sections of the e-mail that did not include actionable feedback): On 11/27/2010 2:50 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 201

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2011-03-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote, in part (as, in the interests of making progress, I have not cited or responded to sections of the e-mail that did not include actionable feedback): > On 11/27/2010 2:50 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > > > >

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2010-11-29 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 11/27/2010 2:50 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: I want to suggestion a reason for this impasse: the WHATWG intends to produce a scene-graph specification. Other activities are out of scope. I'm not sure what you really mean by "scene-graph specification",

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2010-11-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > > I want to suggestion a reason for this impasse: the WHATWG intends to > produce a scene-graph specification. Other activities are out of scope. Insofar as there is a WHATWG philosophy, it is that the spec written here will match implementations,

[whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2010-11-26 Thread Charles Pritchard
All, You may have seen me posting to the list, posting defects related to the accessibility of the Canvas element. If you've followed those threads, you've seen others on the list rebuke my use cases, as inappropriate uses of existing APIs. This has happened twice, recently. In both cases, I'