Re: [whatwg] C:\fakepath\ in HTML5

2009-03-29 Thread timeless
Randy Drielinger ra...@prowebdesign.nl wrote: With the risk of not being compliant with other OS's, but isn't using file://localpath/real_file_name.extension (so using file://localpath/ by default) the solution for the original suggestion? This ensures not breaking anything on existing

Re: [whatwg] C:\fakepath\ in HTML5

2009-03-29 Thread Randy Drielinger
Referring to an example posted earlier: https://www.freedfm.com/ Specifically, the following code: if((strFileName.indexOf(\\) == -1) (strFileName.indexOf(/) == -1)) { alert(Please do not type your filename. Click Browse and upload your zip file.);

[whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI (again)

2009-03-29 Thread Giovanni Campagna
(In this email I will use URL5 as a short for Web Addresses, as that previously was the URL part of HTML5) As subject says, this is the continuation of the thread about LEIRI vs URL5 archived at http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/018929.html, where discussion diverged

Re: [whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI (again)

2009-03-29 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2009/3/29 Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:37:19 +0200, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Summing up, the differences between URL5 and LEIRI are only about the percent sign and its uses for delimiters. I'm not sure if you're correct about those

Re: [whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI (again)

2009-03-29 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:01:51 +0200, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/29 Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: I'm not sure if you're correct about those differences, but even if you are they are not the only differences. E.g. LEIRIs perform normalization if the input

Re: [whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI (again)

2009-03-29 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2009/3/29 Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:01:51 +0200, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/29 Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com: I'm not sure if you're correct about those differences, but even if you are they are not the only differences.

Re: [whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI (again)

2009-03-29 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
It is not clear that the server will be able to correctly support various representations of characters in the path component, e.g. identify accented characters with their decompositions using combining diacritical marks. The peculiarities can depend on the underlying file system conventions.

Re: [whatwg] Canvas - Exception on arc with negative radius

2009-03-29 Thread Oliver Hunt
I commented to the list on this issue some time ago (and a number of the APIs were updated base don my comments); in general developers do not expect graphics libraries to throw exceptions, especially for values that are frequently computed. We've had numerous cases where webkit has had

[whatwg] textarea placeholder=

2009-03-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ojan Vafai wrote: I don't follow. What's the difficulty with supporting placeholder for contentEditable? Unlike form controls, contentEditable content is rendered using CSS rules, so a placeholder would have to somehow fit into the CSS model. We'd need a way to