[whatwg] Link-related feedback

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Martin Atkins wrote: [regarding link rel=stylesheet and .disabled] I wonder what use-case motivated that attribute that couldn't have been satisfied by merely removing the LINK element from the DOM. Or, if you wish to attack it from the other direction, why a generic

Re: [whatwg] Database feedback

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: I would name the question mark character aqt least once, so that it can't be mistaken for a placeholder in the spec (rather than in the SQL): Where it now says: Parse the first argument to the method (sqlStatement) as a SQL statement, with the

Re: [whatwg] Resolving URLs

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Adam Barth wrote: In http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#resolving, the spec says: If the URL to be resolved was passed to an API The base URL is the document base URL of the script's script document context. I believe browsers differ on this

Re: [whatwg] Scripted querying of video capabilities

2008-12-29 Thread Robert O'Callahan
FWIW, in nightly Gecko builds we have an implementation of canPlayType per spec. It parses the codecs parameter of the provided MIME type, so we can answer no, maybe or probably depending on what's in the type. E.g.:

[whatwg] Notifications API removed

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
I've commented out the Notifications API, since there was little interest in it, and what little interest there was was in the form of requests for a rather complete overhaul (changing from strings to arbitary documents). Since notifications are mostly independent of HTML anyway, I encourage

Re: [whatwg] number-related feedback

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Shannon wrote: I was going to suggest the spec define unsigned integers as a value between 1 and MAX_INT inclusive when I realised the spec doesn't define the range of integer values at all. Is this deliberate? Yes. The range is likely to differ based on the platform