RE: Further LC Followup from IE RE: Potential bugs identified in XHR LC Test Suite

2008-06-18 Thread Ian Hickson
, solutions like IE's IE7 mode are fine. IMHO we should be concentrating on pages on the Web, not on browser-specific pages -- interoperability isn't relevant when the page isn't intended to run on multiple browsers. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

RE: Further LC Followup from IE RE: Potential bugs identified in XHR LC Test Suite

2008-06-17 Thread Ian Hickson
to support it in order to be XHR compliant, if that is what you implied. I didn't mean to imply that. I don't think XHR should require any particular level of support. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

RE: Further LC Followup from IE RE: Potential bugs identified in XHR LC Test Suite

2008-06-16 Thread Ian Hickson
if the UA didn't support that level of DOM on regular DOM objects too. The key is just to make sure that the objects returned by XHR are of equivalent DOM support as the rest of the UA's objects. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

RE: Seeking earlier feedback from MS [Was: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Hickson
by the license on that page, and I don't really want to run the risk of committing Google to a license by accident without speaking to our lawyers first, and that seems like a bit of an extreme to go to just to see your feedback. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Further LC Followup from IE RE: Potential bugs identified in XHR LC Test Suite

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Hickson
test that the DOM returned from XHR is DOM Core conformant just like any other, so this seems like an important and relevant testing area for XHR. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: Transitioning to WebApps Mailing List

2008-06-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Doug Schepers wrote: As for being subscribed to a list without being asked... I don't know. Just position it as a list renaming. :-) Then they're aren't being subscribed to a new list, so much as having an existing subscription updated for their convenience. -- Ian

Re: Proposed errata for DOM2 Range regarding insertNode()

2008-06-06 Thread Ian Hickson
be changed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Geolocation ideas

2008-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [web forms 2]Behavior of maxlength on scripted value changes

2008-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
. If this turns out to be incompatible with the Web, we'll have to change it somehow, maybe by keeping track of whether the value was set by script or not.) HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: Dedicated Geolocation List and Channel

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
for geo fails, as seems likely given several browser vendors have requested that it stay in this group. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: XHR review extension

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
at describing existing behaviour. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Geolocation ideas

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
and several have expressed their agreement since I first mentioned this last week, which puts us ahead of most of our working group decisions! :-) I understand that you are travelling; my apologies for making this request when you are indisposed. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Event handler attributes (Was: Dependencies in XHR)

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Hickson
, say, to be different chapters of the same language spec, rather than if we consider them to be separate languages.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just

Proposal to work on Geolocation

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008Mar/0011.html http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just

Re: Proposal to work on Geolocation

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
for charters to be written and so forth. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Proposal to work on Geolocation

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
creation as far as we can. Do you know when the AC review for this new WG will start? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Proposal to work on Geolocation

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
are looking into it aggressively. I'll keep you posted as we make progress. Cool, thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Proposal to work on Geolocation

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Doug Schepers wrote: Ian Hickson wrote (on 5/27/08 6:09 PM): On Tue, 27 May 2008, Doug Schepers wrote: The W3C intends to follow through on that, and to allocate Team resources to this valuable technology. We will announce something formal soon. Rest

Re: removeRequestHeader()

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
this into the spec, even if it's common for Javascript APIs. I have to say, I would rather prefer it be treated as . -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just

Re: Moving forward with XHR2 and AC

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
codepoints than 2E and 5C respectively. I.e. would we need to forbid its use on URIs other than ones containing (.|%2e)(.|%2e)(\|%5c) I could live with that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [XHR] Dependencies in XHR

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
remember to deal with the mouseover event's quirk when doing this. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Proposed errata for DOM2 Range regarding insertNode()

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Hickson
I agree that the spec could be read as saying that the node is inserted after the range when it is collapsed, I don't think we want that behaviour, nor that it was intended. Do you actually think that behaviour is preferred to the insertion behaviour? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
that won't be finished for a long time. Pragmatically, why does it matter when the references are finished? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
to publish the XHR spec if the W3C didn't want to do it -- indeed, that's where XMLHttpRequest started its standards career in the first place. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: The spec can't be more ready than all normative references. Sure it can. The concept of origin (for instance) is pretty well understood by browser vendors, and HTML5 is getting

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: The spec can't be more ready than all normative references. Sure it can. The concept of origin (for instance

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: ... What's wrong with referencing HTML5? Why can't the spec be more ready than its normative references? We're only really referencing the concept, the details aren't particularly critical to XHR. ... Because

Re: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
, as apparently, it's irrelevant for the goal it's trying to achieve. The point is that Apple and Microsoft are both going to implement the thing as required by the Web in 2000, not as defined in HTML5. HTML5 is describing existing practice on these matters, not defining new material. -- Ian

RE: XHR LC comments

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
material ;-) The bits that XHR depend on, which is the subject at hand, aren't new relative to the Web in 2000. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just

Moving forward with XHR2 and AC

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
anything I can do to help I'd be happy to do so. I would like to see this draft reach last call this month if possible. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just

Proposed errata for DOM2 Range regarding insertNode()

2008-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
point if there have been no objections raised we go ahead and make the change to the DOM2 errata. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Proposed errata for DOM2 Range regarding insertNode()

2008-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robert Sayre wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said in the very first e-mail on this subject, that's what I'd like to do. However, that's a significantly higher cost (years vs weeks) than releasing an errata

Progress Events: heads-up regarding begin vs loadstart in HTML5

2008-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
process by which I should raise issues to make sure they don't get lost? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Blobs: An alternate (complementary?) binary data proposal (Was: File IO...)

2008-05-13 Thread Ian Hickson
is a pretty regular occurance. We certainly have a vested interest in making sure that the Web APIs can handle this amount of data -- this is the kind of thing we'd be using now, if we could. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [selectors-api] Proposal to Drop NSResolver from Selectors API v1

2008-05-12 Thread Ian Hickson
algorithms they want for performance. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

RE: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests

2008-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
, potentially leading to privilege escalation attacks (e.g. if the user thinks he's uploading a PNG but the server sniffs it as an HTML file and sends it back as such). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: Blobs: An alternate (complementary?) binary data proposal (Was: File IO...)

2008-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
on this rather than anyone else -- my interest is in forwarding the platform as a whole. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Blobs: An alternate (complementary?) binary data proposal (Was: File IO...)

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
this spec? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: specification of legacy key events

2008-05-08 Thread Ian Hickson
section we really need to have access to these events so that, for example, we can, if the user so desires, cancel them and provide our own IME implementation (which might hook into user-specific information that the UA might not be able to provide). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

RE: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Hickson
, and minutes are almost uniformly so poor that it is hard to impossible to get precise technical details out of telecons. A telecon would not be appropriate at this point. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

RE: Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Hickson
there that uses it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-04-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jon Barnett wrote: On 4/26/07, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Karl Pongratz wrote: I had a short look at the webforms and web applications specification at whatwg.org, I didn't find anything about modal and modeless windows

Mouse wheel feedback

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Hickson
to update this thread, Microsoft's new Virtual Earth uses the mouse wheel for zooming. http://virtualearth.msn.com/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: Mouse wheel feedback

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Hickson
that your e-mail didn't cc the original commentors, so they may not have seen the replies.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] Handling :link and :visited Pseudo Classes

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Hickson
and without sacrificing any potential use cases. It even handles the case of a UA wanting to make site-local links follow the pseudos but site-global links not leak information. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [selectors-api] Handling :link and :visited Pseudo Classes

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Hickson
leakage by using a timing attack based on how long selectors took to be processed in the two cases. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

getElementsBySelectoron all NodeLists

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Hickson
, where this is now being developed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[Bindings] interfaces flattening

2008-04-10 Thread Ian Hickson
. The former currently doesn't really easily fit into JS, it would be nice if it could be made somehow more consistent (e.g. so that you could override the EventTarget methods and affect all objects that implement EventTarget at once). Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

RE: What is Microsoft's intent with XDR vis-à-vis W3C? [Was: Re: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

2008-04-02 Thread Ian Hickson
...these are not problems with the Access Control and XXX specs. XDR is just as susceptible to these problems. The above e-mail also describes ways to mitigate these problems. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: several messages about binding stuff

2008-03-28 Thread Ian Hickson
can't prevent them later. That's why I prefer starting with them prevented. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

RE: What is Microsoft's intent with XDR vis-à-vis W3C? [Was: Re: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

2008-03-26 Thread Ian Hickson
on a technologically superior, safer, and more comprehensive solution that has as much implementation experience and significantly more authoring experience, based on extending existing APIs instead of arbitarily introducing new, incompatible APIs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: What is Microsoft's intent with XDR vis-à-vis W3C? [Was: Re: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

2008-03-26 Thread Ian Hickson
'. It seems to have the same degree of 'compatibility' as introducing new APIs on the XHR object. The XHR2 proposal isn't a new API. It's the same API for same-domain as cross-domain requests. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [Bindings] What does typeof return for interface objects?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Hickson
to define [[Construct]], thus making this vary on a per-interface basis. Requiring that [[Call]] be implemented but not saying what its actual behaviour should be is a bit strange, I think. I agree that that is not an option either. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [Bindings] What does typeof return for interface objects?

2008-03-18 Thread Ian Hickson
behaviour of their author's favourite browser, and thus failing on browsers that arbitrarily picked a different behaviour. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible

Re: [selectors-api] Why no querySelector(All) on DocumentFragments?

2008-03-14 Thread Ian Hickson
stuff ([#textContent*='...'], [#col=4], [#row2], etc), this, and the various other new ideas that have been suggested since Selectors last had new features suggested. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [selectors-api] Why no querySelector(All) on DocumentFragments?

2008-03-13 Thread Ian Hickson
by the document. Thus it is possible for an element to match neither * * nor :root. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] Why no querySelector(All) on DocumentFragments?

2008-03-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Webkit is correct. The Selectors spec defines :root as: The :root pseudo-class represents an element that is the root of the document. OK. It wasn't obvious to me whether that was because people hadn't considered

Re: ElementTraversal comments

2008-02-26 Thread Ian Hickson
, and the commentors have a clear way of knowing when to look at the spec to see if they are happy with the new text. Just a suggestion, take it or leave it as you wish, I just find it helps. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: Requirements... Re: Progress events progress...

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Hickson
? How do you mean? Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Progress events progress...

2008-02-22 Thread Ian Hickson
sense to have authoring conformance requirements for this spec at all. Anyway. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api]

2008-02-19 Thread Ian Hickson
matches it? That seems like optimising for the wrong case in a pretty big way. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] What DOM feature Selectors API belongs to?

2008-02-14 Thread Ian Hickson
it now support Selectors API? Your answer is yes. mine, according to your specification - no. Yet if the spec had had a hasFeature check, it would be returning true right now, since they would have implemented that too. So hasFeature() doesn't solve your problem either. -- Ian Hickson

RE: [selectors-api] What DOM feature Selectors API belongs to?

2008-02-14 Thread Ian Hickson
think this is a highly theoretical concern and in practice hasFeature() is a waste of time and effort (and memory and CPU and bandwidth). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: OPTIONS and Method-Check

2008-01-12 Thread Ian Hickson
it as it gives more information to the server about what is going on and can help inform the server's response. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Window pointer

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Actually it does, in that navigation is the only way to change the window.document attribute's value. Removing an iframe from another document doesn't affect the iframe's Window object's document attribute. Is navigation

Re: Window pointer

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Hickson
my testing: http://tc.labs.opera.com/apis/XMLHttpRequest/open/031.htm Then again, there's no specification that I know of that defines when the document attribute on the Window object changes, exactly. HTML5 does. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Window pointer

2007-11-19 Thread Ian Hickson
lifetime, depending on which document is active. What should happen when the original document is no longer the active document? Directly accessing window.document at that point could be across-origin error. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [Bindings] extended attribute for callback function interfaces?

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Cameron McCormack wrote: Ian Hickson: Our conclusion was that we would like a way to mark an interface as being a callback and thus implementable as a function, with the interface having one method, that method defing the signature of the function. Such interfaces

Re: [Bindings] extended attribute for callback function interfaces?

2007-10-17 Thread Ian Hickson
spec, I can just define a preprocessor step for this for myself.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [xhr] cross site proposal headers

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Hickson
. Non-idea for the end-user, but by their own choice. Referer is also blocked when going from https:// to http://, for the same reasons as above, and we want Referer-Root available then too. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: [progress-events] stalled, lengthComputable, loadstart vs begin

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Hickson
, it should probably be listed as something that specifications should only include if it is considered useful for that particular case. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: DOMContentLoaded

2007-07-12 Thread Ian Hickson
to have finished and then fires. As far as I can tell the spec is exact about this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Bindings spec ready for FPWD?

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Hickson
native representation of a byte array than a UTF-16 string. Editorial: you have which functions, analagously to the (extraneous comma) in various places. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
not sure I remember which it was. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
do about that. It almost seems like window names should be scoped to origins But I bet that would break some site somewhere. :( Indeed, I tried doing that earlier and you complained, saying it would break sites. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Prototype chain for objects that implement multiple interfaces

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
-compatible way for compatibility with Web content, as I understand it. So the sooner we define how this is to work, the sooner we can get wider consistency and less browser differences that affect authors. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

DOMContentLoaded

2007-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
FYI, DOMContentLoaded is now defined as part of HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Does: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#browsing ...(specifically point 4 in the algorithm) Quite frankly, I don't see how point 4 is compatible with the real world. In particular, if point 4

Running script in non-active documents

2007-05-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: The case I was particularly concerned about was not presented vs not presented, but has its own global scripting context and is neutral to script. A document in an IFRAME has its own Window -- if you have navigated away

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
, is the answer acceptable? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Method overloading in IDL

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: The problem we want to solve with the ES Bindings specification is that Who is we here? IMHO, the problem we want to solve is the lack of a clear and succint yet detailed formal definition of how DOM objects in JS should be implemented. -- Ian

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
% of the multibillion document sample) that the numbers are probably swamped by the error margin. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: File upload interface (fwd)

2007-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
section is empty. fileName: The name of the file, exclusive of its path. Good. - Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: Network API editor's draft

2007-03-07 Thread Ian Hickson
the definitions back to HTML5 to deal with the more complicated cases which the Windows spec says are out of scope.) Could you give an exact list of the changes between the WHATWG draft and this one? (Ideally to the level of individual word and markup changes?) Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U

Re: New Progress Events spec

2007-03-06 Thread Ian Hickson
Events. The acknowledgements refer to the WHATWG progress event proposal as being invaluable in preparing this draft, but that seems unlikely since there is no such proposal (the provided reference is to the progress element, a UI widget). HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: ISSUE-112: Should progress run a UI or rely on other stuff too?

2007-02-10 Thread Ian Hickson
the hard work. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ISSUE-112: Should progress run a UI or rely on other stuff too?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: Is it worth adding to progress events to support this use case, or should it stay as small as possible? Are there any other actual use cases? What else would you use the progress events for if not a standard progress UI? -- Ian Hickson

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Ian Hickson wrote: I haven't actually looked at the spec, but, I would recommend something along the lines of: Apparently I should have given rationales, so: MUST fire at zero bytes ...so that progress bars can be initialized with the right length

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Jim Ley wrote: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MUST fire again at the end, even if that is zero bytes ...so that progress bars can be easily guarenteed to reach the 100% mark, which is important for usability. Using onload is sensible

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
, then removed by the handler for the existing 'load' event, we can easily foster backwards-compatible UI that will work identically in old and new UAs with the exception of having nice updating progress bars in the new UAs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
criteria. If it helps, as one of the editors of the Selectors specification, I would say that it isn't incorrect to consider div, p to be a selector (singular). The terminology in the spec says that technically that's a group of selectors, but I wouldn't worry about that. -- Ian Hickson

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
of: MUST fire at zero bytes MUST fire again at the end, even if that is zero bytes SHOULD fire at least once every 500ms in between the above two events, unless no progress has been made in that time. SHOULD NOT fire more than once every 10ms. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
precedent in the new world of public Web spec development. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
group override the editor on such a trivial issue as naming is a bad precedent for open Web spec development. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
creep and certainly, as you point out, without letting their own opinions make them ignore important parts of the community. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
micromanaging the names.) I should probably point out that I represent a company whose opinion is that the longer names are fine. I'm not worried about what the names are. My point is that the process by which the names were obtained is not a good one, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: Editorial Control (was: Selectors API naming)

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
that the editor is not being forced down a path that represents the community better, but is just being forced to take a different minority position? Especially on an issue that, as you point out, will never be more than a minor pain? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: heads-up on use of unnamespaced event types in XBL2

2007-01-08 Thread Ian Hickson
. Yeah, I agree with that. What's the rationale for not having bindings-are-ready and bound? 'bound' on its own is too vague. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

heads-up on use of unnamespaced event types in XBL2

2007-01-05 Thread Ian Hickson
FYI, the XBL2 spec currently defines two events, 'xbl-bound' and 'bindings-are-ready', without namespaces. If anyone thinks that these events should be namespaced, please let me know. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: NSResolver Re: Selectors API naming (off-topic)

2006-12-22 Thread Ian Hickson
). FWIW, the special casing was done at the request of the HTML working group. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

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