Re: [whatwg] Removing rel=feed

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Mark Pilgrim wrote: This is an email followup from an IRC discussion long ago, at Ian's request. http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090416#l-507 # [23:30] mpilgrim test cases: http://diveintomark.org/tmp/relalternate.html and

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Alex Russell wrote: As currently specified, HTML 5 includes a list of pre-defined good values for http-equiv [2] and specifies a pragma extensibility mechanism [3] which predicates new entries on being registered HTTP headers from duly submitted RFCs. This is onerous

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
I assume Javadocs are a legitimate use case for HTML5. What's the right way to implement Javadocs in HTML5? -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Re: [whatwg] keyboard behaviour inside of editable area

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Alexander Surkov wrote: The suggestion is to treat control element as special character, i.e. when you move through the text by arrow keys and control element is met then control element should be focused and its selection should be changed appropriately. When control

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Oct 10, 2009, at 08:20, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I think the HTML5 requirement should be changed to allow any header in the Permanent Message Header Field Registry. Effectively, this would require either an RFC or an Open Standard. This seems just as good for HTML5's purposes as

Re: [whatwg] The legend element

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Markus Ernst wrote: I found this post by Ian Hickson from August 15, 2006 in the list archive: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: Since the omission of legend does not cause any horrible effects, I suggest making legend optional and reaffirming that if

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 08:20, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I think the HTML5 requirement should be changed to allow any header in the Permanent Message Header Field Registry. Effectively, this would require either an RFC or an Open Standard. This seems just as good for HTML5's

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Simon Pieters
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:43:03 +0200, Eduard Pascual herenva...@gmail.com wrote: For it to be taken seriously by the editor, I strongly recommend that you send spec-ready quality text, I recommend sticking to use cases, requirements, links to real-world pages, and proposed solutions with

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread tali garsiel
bay117-w3028b5e214edae8ab9a8eb83...@phx.gbl pine.lnx.4.62.0910120719160.25...@hixie.dreamhostps.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Does pushState apply to bookmarking ?From reading section 6.10 of the spec it seems

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 08:20, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I think the HTML5 requirement should be changed to allow any header in the Permanent Message Header Field Registry. Effectively, this would require either an RFC or an Open Standard.

Re: [whatwg] The legend element

2009-10-12 Thread Markus Ernst
Ian Hickson schrieb: Additionnally I want to suggest to make it possible to place the legend element outside the fieldset element, providing a for attribute (just as it is possible to place the label element apart from it's form field element). This is significantly harder to pull off, for

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Yuvalik Webdesign wrote: A) In the NAV element it says: In particular, it is common for footers to have a list of links to various key parts of a site, but the footer element is more appropriate in such cases, and no nav element is necessary for those links. But then

Re: [whatwg] The banner-role for headers

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Yuvalik Webdesign wrote: In section 3.2.6 (Assistive technologies) it states in the table that header has an implied ARIA role of “banner”. However, the spec description of header does not comply with the description of the banner-role in the ARIA-spec. ARIA states:

Re: [whatwg] Is there any reason for the continued existence of enctype attribute at the form element

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:38:51 +0200, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: While I agree that it is probably an authoring error if the author included a type=file control on a page with the default enctype, Should thus validators flag this as an

Re: [whatwg] Drag-and-drop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Garrett Smith wrote: My question is: Which browser does document.initDragEvent work in? Do you mean DragEvent.initDragEvent? Document.initDragEvent is inordinately long and cumbersome, taking 16 arguments, and requiring the creation of a DataTransfer object. That

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, tali garsiel wrote: Does pushState apply to bookmarking? Insofar as bookmarking uses the document's current address, yes. (Bookmarking, being a UI feature, isn't defined in HTML5.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] The legend element

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Markus Ernst wrote: Ian Hickson schrieb: Additionnally I want to suggest to make it possible to place the legend element outside the fieldset element, providing a for attribute (just as it is possible to place the label element apart from it's form field

Re: [whatwg] Is there any reason for the continued existence of enctype attribute at the form element

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Kaplun
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Mark Kaplun wrote: Boris, I have agreed with your first response that I don't know enough about all the crazy things that people might be doing, to make this attribute to disappear. However I don't see how changing the default mime type will have

Re: [whatwg] The banner-role for headers

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Ian Hickson Which makes sense to me, a banner is not a header. In other words, if header implies a banner-role, it may only be used once on a page unless that role is overridden for additional headers. Is this an oversight in the spec or is this to remain like this? If so, how

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Ian Hickson C) When talking about outline (in the context of sectioning) I gather we are NOT talking about the DOM-tree, but about (a Table Of) Contents kind of outline. Right. Does a generic page-header and footer (containing a site-wide logo, style and navigation)

[whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
I have an argument with a colleague of mine regarding Transparent elements. He filed a bug regarding this in bugzilla and I wrote to the html5doctor about it with a question, but neither action has answered our question. The way I understand it, a Transparent Element can contain the same

Re: [whatwg] The legend element

2009-10-12 Thread Markus Ernst
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Markus Ernst wrote: Ian Hickson schrieb: Additionnally I want to suggest to make it possible to place the legend element outside the fieldset element, providing a for attribute (just as it is possible to place the label element apart from it's form

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread tali garsiel
pine.lnx.4.62.0910121145480.25...@hixie.dreamhostps.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 I guess it's not a HTML5 question but more a best practice question but ... In case an application has navigation menus that cannot be

Re: [whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: I have an argument with a colleague of mine regarding Transparent elements. He filed a bug regarding this in bugzilla and I wrote to the html5doctor about it with a question, but neither action has answered our

Re: [whatwg] Is there any reason for the continued existence of enctype attribute at the form element

2009-10-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/11/09 11:06 AM, Mark Kaplun wrote: Boris, I have agreed with your first response that I don't know enough about all the crazy things that people might be doing, to make this attribute to disappear. However I don't see how changing the default mime type will have any affect on the existing

Re: [whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Tab Atkins Jr. Neither of you are *quite* right, but you are much closer to correct than your colleague. A transparent element *must* contain the same kinds of elements that its direct parent can. The meaning of transparent is simply that, if you removed the element but left its

Re: [whatwg] Transparent Content

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. Neither of you are *quite* right, but you are much closer to correct than your colleague.  A transparent element *must* contain the same kinds of elements that its direct parent can.  The

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Markus Ernst
tali garsiel schrieb: pine.lnx.4.62.0910121145480.25...@hixie.dreamhostps.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 I guess it's not a HTML5 question but more a best practice question but ... In case an application has navigation

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Brawley
Ian, I quoted Andrew Fedoniouk (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/010186.html), There are use cases when frames are good. As an example: online (and offline) help systems ... In such cases they provide level of usability higher than any other method of

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Mike Ressler
Peter, Can you explain what you mean by A DB row is a tree node and it must be possible to block bookmarking of such rows. a little more? From my understanding, a developer could accomplish this with an onclick handler and some URI arguments, but it seems like you're focused on the browser

Re: [whatwg] Is there any reason for the continued existence of enctype attribute at the form element

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Kaplun
Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 10/11/09 11:06 AM, Mark Kaplun wrote: Boris, I have agreed with your first response that I don't know enough about all the crazy things that people might be doing, to make this attribute to disappear. However I don't see how changing the default mime type will have any

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Peter Brawley p...@artfulsoftware.com wrote: A DB row is a tree node and it must be possible to block bookmarking of such rows. You keep implying that frames make it possible to block bookmarking. They do not. Anyone can right click-open frame and then just

Re: [whatwg] Is there any reason for the continued existence of enctype attribute at the form element

2009-10-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/12/09 11:32 AM, Mark Kaplun wrote: Is there any reason why someone will do such a thing by design? unless there is some exotic reason, this is an example to a form which do not perform its role. That depends on whether the server actually expects to get anything from the file input.

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Brawley
Mike, Can you explain what you mean by A DB row is a tree node and it must be possible to block bookmarking of such rows. a little more? From my understanding, a developer could accomplish this with an onclick handler and some URI arguments, but it seems like you're focused on the browser

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Peter Brawley wrote: I quoted Andrew Fedoniouk (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/010186.html), There are use cases when frames are good. As an example: online (and offline) help systems ... In such cases they provide level of

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Peter Brawley p...@artfulsoftware.com wrote: The use case that mainly motivates my objection to this says that the datatree maintenance page must function as a black box with no internal HTML bookmarking at all---except for exit, navigation must be controlled

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
There are good database reasons to block bookmarks to table rows, so that must be doable. I still don't get what database has to do with it? block bookmars to table rows? Does it make any sense at all? … Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Mike Ressler
Peter, Thanks for the clarification, I think I have a little better understanding now. (Sorry I jumped into the mailing list in the middle of the conversation and missed some of the earlier context) Are we currently discussing implementation details around a proposed tree structure control? I

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch] Please file specific bugs or send specific e-mails for each example you think should be reworked; there are over 300 examples in the spec and without knowing what is wrong with each one, if I just go through them all and change them, they're just

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch] Please file specific bugs or send specific e-mails for each example you think should be reworked; there are over 300 examples in the spec and without knowing what is

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Tab Atkins Jr. Definitely not; it's part of the application. From your snippet, the page seems to be built as a picture-app, which means both the image and the thumbnails work together; neither is tangential to the purpose of the page like a sidebar would be. I think this is the

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Russell
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 08:20, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I think the HTML5 requirement should be changed to allow any header in the Permanent Message Header Field Registry. Effectively, this would require either an RFC or an

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Russell
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Alex Russell wrote: As currently specified, HTML 5 includes a list of pre-defined good values for http-equiv [2] and specifies a pragma extensibility mechanism [3] which predicates new entries on being

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Alex Russell wrote: ... So just to clarify: should we standardize X-UA-Compatible at the IETF, the validator would no longer complain about it, assuming that you'll accept it in the wiki (which I'd like to be clear on)? ... To standardize it in the IETF, it would probably need to be renamed,

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Brawley
Thomas, What's wrong or missing in MSDN and/or Google Documentation Reader? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.generic.aspx http://code.google.com/docreader/#p=google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5 The Google solution needs at least 1,100 lines of JavaScript (perhaps much more,

Re: [whatwg] Navigation events generated during unload

2009-10-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/12/09 1:55 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: Why is the form.submit() ignored? It's not ignored in, e.g.: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/navigation/unload/same-origin/004.html But in this case the form action is same-origin with the load that's happening Oops, that's a vestigial

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. iframe src=example1_jpg.html name=detail p A long story regarding the companies' origins and goals... /p div id=advert.../div ul       lia target=detail

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: Alex Russell wrote: ... So just to clarify: should we standardize X-UA-Compatible at the IETF, the validator would no longer complain about it, assuming that you'll accept it in the wiki (which I'd like to be clear on)? ... To

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:24:20 -0700 schrieb Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc: […] Unless you count IE-based browsers, such as maxathon, a separate implementation. / Jonas Which we don't because they do not have a seperate rendering engine, amirite? -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: Alex Russell wrote: ... So just to clarify: should we standardize X-UA-Compatible at the IETF, the validator would no longer complain about it, assuming that you'll accept it in the wiki (which I'd like to be clear

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: And the standard would have to describe what it actually does, which would probably require some input from Microsoft. At some point, to advance on the IETF standards track, it would need multiple interoperable

Re: [whatwg] Drag-and-drop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Garrett Smith
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Garrett Smith wrote: My question is: Which browser does document.initDragEvent work in? Do you mean DragEvent.initDragEvent? AH, yeah. The event is under MouseEvent, then? So:-

Re: [whatwg] keyboard behaviour inside of editable area

2009-10-12 Thread Alexander Surkov
Hi, Ian. Thank you for the answer. AFAIK usually accessibility people tend to define kind of universal behaviour on mouse/keyboard interaction depending on OS of course. This case is probably not this one and behaviour should be implementation dependent. I'm not sure. Therefore I brought this

Re: [whatwg] Drag-and-drop feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Garrett Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Garrett Smith wrote: My question is: Which browser does document.initDragEvent work in? Do you mean DragEvent.initDragEvent? AH, yeah. The event is under

[whatwg] localStorage feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I think we should be very careful before introducing a fourth storage mechanism to make sure that whatever we introduce really is something that's going to be very useful and

Re: [whatwg] localStorage feedback

2009-10-12 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Darin Fisher wrote: What about navigating an iframe to a reference fragment, which could trigger a scroll event? The scrolling has to be done synchronously for compat with the web. You can only do that

Re: [whatwg] 4.10.5 - value of hidden inputs

2009-10-12 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:44:39 + (UTC), Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: [...] Fixed the spec. That works, thanks. kats

Re: [whatwg] X-UA-Compatible, X-* headers, validators, etc.

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Russell
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: And the standard would have to describe what it actually does, which would probably require some input from Microsoft. At some point, to advance