Re: [whatwg] Alternative method of declaring prefixes in RDFa (was Re: RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector)

2009-01-19 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Manu Sporny mspo...@digitalbazaar.com, 2009-01-18 19:18 -0500: Speaking as an RDFa Task Force member - we're currently looking at an alternative prefix binding mechanism, so that this: xmlns:foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/; could also be declared like this in non-XML family languages:

Re: [whatwg] Alternative method of declaring prefixes in RDFa

2009-01-19 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Michael(tm) Smith m...@w3.org, 2009-01-19 17:40 +0900: Manu Sporny mspo...@digitalbazaar.com, 2009-01-18 19:18 -0500: prefix=foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/; URL for an archived mailing-list discussion about it? OK, I found this:

Re: [whatwg] Alternative method of declaring prefixes in RDFa (was Re: RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector)

2009-01-19 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 19, 2009, at 02:18, Manu Sporny wrote: Toby A Inkster wrote: So RDFa, as it is currently defined, does need a CURIE binding mechanism. XML namespaces are used for XHTML+RDFa 1.0, but given that namespaces don't work in HTML, an alternative mechanism for defining them is expected, and

Re: [whatwg] Alternative method of declaring prefixes in RDFa

2009-01-19 Thread Manu Sporny
Michael(tm) Smith wrote: Michael(tm) Smith m...@w3.org, 2009-01-19 17:40 +0900: Manu Sporny mspo...@digitalbazaar.com, 2009-01-18 19:18 -0500: prefix=foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/; URL for an archived mailing-list discussion about it? OK, I found this:

[whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
If this was discussed already, sorry. There has been so much RDF/meta data discussion that I'm far from on top of it.. I'd like some way to add meta data to a page that could be integrated with the UA's copy/paste commands. For example, if I copy a sentence from Wikipedia and paste it in some

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: I'd like some way to add meta data to a page that could be integrated with the UA's copy/paste commands. These use cases are a good start, but the problem is that you've begun with the assumption that copy and paste would be a part of the solution. For example, if

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-19 Thread Křištof Želechovski
Spell checking of regions of text should be governed by the lang attribute, if any, and browser preferences; it would be switched off for language tags the spell-checking engine does not support, including custom ones. It is extremely annoying how Safari, although (supposedly) localized to Polish,

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-19 Thread Peter Kasting
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: The same engineers have since implemented this feature in Chrome also, Incorrect. One engineer implemented a crude hack in a small portion of the Chromium glue code that implements a fraction of the spec -- enough to make Gmail

[whatwg] Script/parser interaction bug?

2009-01-19 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
I have a test case that works in major browsers (FF, Opera, Safari, IE6) but that I don't think would work if the they followed the behavior as currently specified in HTML5. I've put the test case online: http://stakface.com/pub/mango/ext7.html The assertion

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-19 Thread Peter Kasting
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote: Actually I was just poking around and noticed that we don't actually support variation of spellcheck values within different parts of an editable element. So I won't make any claims about how hard that is to support.

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
2009/1/20 Jamie Rumbelow ja...@jamierumbelow.net: I think that the already available solution to your problem are Microformats - you are essentially embedding metadata, semantically in HTML. Of course, but I think your comment misses half of the proposed solution.. namely what format the UA

Re: [whatwg] Alternative method of declaring prefixes in RDFa

2009-01-19 Thread Manu Sporny
Just a couple of clarifications - not trying to convince anybody of anything, just setting the record straight. Henri Sivonen wrote: Even though switching over to 'prefix' in both HTML and XHTML would address the DOM Consistency concern, using them for RDF-like URI mapping would as opposed to

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
I'd like some way to add meta data to a page that could be integrated with the UA's copy/paste commands. These use cases are a good start, but the problem is that you've begun with the assumption that copy and paste would be a part of the solution. That's not a bug, it's a feature :) Ian

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-19 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jan 18, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Shelley Powers wrote: Take you guys seriously...OK, yeah. I don't doubt that the work will be challenging, or problematical. I'm not denying Henri's claim. And I didn't claim to be the one who would necessarily come up with the solutions, either, but that I