Re: [whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

2012-08-10 Thread Florian Rivoal
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:29:17 +0200, Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net wrote: On 8 sie 2012, at 12:57, Florian Rivoal flori...@opera.com wrote: Is there a good reason to believe that * will be something other than a power of two? That is, could we just optimize the *x syntax away and

Re: [whatwg] StringEncoding: Allowed encodings for TextEncoder

2012-08-10 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joshua Bell jsb...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Joshua Bell jsb...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:48 AM, James Graham jgra...@opera.com wrote: On 08/07/2012 07:51 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: I don't mind supporting

Re: [whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

2012-08-10 Thread Stephanie Rieger
On 10 Aug 2012, at 09:54, Florian Rivoal wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:29:17 +0200, Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net wrote: On 8 sie 2012, at 12:57, Florian Rivoal flori...@opera.com wrote: Is there a good reason to believe that * will be something other than a power of two? I wasn't

Re: [whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

2012-08-10 Thread Odin Hørthe Omdal
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:54:10 +0200, Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net wrote: One stylesheet can be easily reused for pixel-perfect 1x/2x layout, but pixel-perfect 1.5x requires its own sizes incompatible with 1x/2x. Apart from it possibly being a self-fulfilling prophecy – isn't this

Re: [whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

2012-08-10 Thread Andy Davies
On 9 August 2012 17:01, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Andy Davies dajdav...@gmail.com wrote: Would also like to see if there's a way of using srcset to hint to the UA that it can skip the image under low throughput conditions e.g. GPRS. Same would

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-10 Thread Markus Lanthaler
On Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: The only reason there's a MIME type at all (rather than just using JSON's directly) was to enable filtering of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop payloads; would JSON-LD enable that also? Sure, I see no reason why not. Could

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Markus Lanthaler wrote: On Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: The only reason there's a MIME type at all (rather than just using JSON's directly) was to enable filtering of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop payloads; would JSON-LD enable

[whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Erik Reppen
My understanding of the general philosophy of HTML5 on the matter of malformed HTML is that it's better to define specific rules concerning breakage rather than overly strict rules about how to do it right in the first place but this is really starting to create pain-points in development. Modern

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Erik Reppen erik.rep...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding of the general philosophy of HTML5 on the matter of malformed HTML is that it's better to define specific rules concerning breakage rather than overly strict rules about how to do it right in the first

Re: [whatwg] Real-time thread support for workers

2012-08-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Jussi Kalliokoski jussi.kallioko...@gmail.com wrote: On W3C AudioWG we're currently discussing the possibility of having web workers that run in a priority/RT thread. This would be highly useful for example to keep audio from glitching even under high CPU

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Erik Reppen
This confuses me. Why does it matter that other documents wouldn't work if you changed the parsing rules they were defined with to stricter versions? As far as backwards compatibility, if a strict-defined set of HTML would also work in a less strict context, what could it possibly matter? It's

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Erik Reppen erik.rep...@gmail.com wrote: This confuses me. Why does it matter that other documents wouldn't work if you changed the parsing rules they were defined with to stricter versions? As far as backwards compatibility, if a strict-defined set of HTML

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Erik Reppen
Sorry if this double-posted but I think I forgot to CC the list. Browser vendor politics I can understand but if we're going to talk about what history shows about people like myself suggesting features we can't actually support I'd like to see some studies that contradict the experiences I've

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Erik Reppen erik.rep...@gmail.com wrote: Browser vendor politics I can understand but if we're going to talk about what history shows about people like myself suggesting features we can't actually support I'd like to see some studies that contradict the

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread David Bruant
Le 10/08/2012 20:06, Erik Reppen a écrit : Sorry if this double-posted but I think I forgot to CC the list. Browser vendor politics I can understand but if we're going to talk about what history shows about people like myself suggesting features we can't actually support I'd like to see some

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Erik Reppen
Thanks Hugh. I had mistakenly been thinking of XHTML5 as something that never happened rather than merely HTML5 served as XML which hadn't really occurred to me as being a viable option. I look forward to messing with this. This is precisely what I wanted to be able to do. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at

Re: [whatwg] Wasn't there going to be a strict spec?

2012-08-10 Thread Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu
(12/08/11 8:41), Erik Reppen wrote: Thanks Hugh. I had mistakenly been thinking of XHTML5 as something that never happened rather than merely HTML5 served as XML which hadn't really occurred to me as being a viable option. I look forward to messing with this. This is precisely what I wanted to

Re: [whatwg] StringEncoding: Allowed encodings for TextEncoder

2012-08-10 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joshua Bell jsb...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Joshua Bell jsb...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:48 AM, James Graham jgra...@opera.com wrote: On 08/07/2012 07:51 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: I don't mind supporting