Re: [whatwg] Video with MIME type application/octet-stream

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Campbell
On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 8/31/10 3:36 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: You might say Hey, but aren't you content sniffing then to find the codecs and you'd be right. But in this case we're respecting the MIME type sent by the server - it tells the browser to whatever level

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for secure key-value data stores

2010-08-22 Thread Brian Campbell
On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Nicholas Zakas wrote: In attempting to use localStorage at work, we ran into some major security issues. Primary among those are the guidelines we have in place regarding personalized user data. The short story is that

Re: [whatwg] Multiple file download

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:02 PM, And Clover wrote: Boris Zbarsky wrote: or fixing UAs to only prompt once, to inventing yet another package format here. I'd go further: why not just give UAs an option to decompress a ZIP archive (or potentially other recognised archive format) to multiple

Re: [whatwg] video feedback

2010-02-10 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Brian Campbell wrote: As a multimedia developer, I am wondering about the purpose of the timeupdate event on media elements. It's primary use is keeping the UIs updated (specifically the timers and the scrubber bars

Re: [whatwg] video feedback

2010-02-10 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Eric Carlson wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Brian Campbell wrote: On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Brian Campbell wrote: At 4 timeupdate events per second, it isn't all that useful. I can replace

Re: [whatwg] Lists and legal documents

2010-02-05 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: These indicators are part of the content and cannot be governed by style sheets. End users having their own custom style sheets overwriting the indicators with their own preference would be a problem, for instance. I have seen at least

Re: [whatwg] Canvas size and double buffering.

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:55 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Brian Campbell lam...@continuation.org wrote: I think the most reasonable approach would be to say that the getBoundingClientRect().width or height is rounded to the nearest pixel. Boxes are displayed

Re: [whatwg] api for fullscreen()

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Smylers wrote: Brian Campbell writes: I'm a bit concerned about when the fullscreen events and styles apply, though. If the page can tell whether or not the user has actually allowed it to enter fullscreen mode, it can refuse to display content until the user

Re: [whatwg] Canvas size and double buffering.

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 2/3/10 2:54 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: Well, yes it would be good to have onresize for all elements. Which is why it's being worked on anyway. I'm curious; where is this being worked on? Discussed here on this list? On another list? Or is it

Re: [whatwg] api for fullscreen()

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Smylers wrote: Brian Campbell writes: As I understand it, the risk with full-screen view is that a malicous site may spoof browser chrome, such as the URL bar, thereby tricking a user who isn't aware the site is full-screen. This is addressing a different

Re: [whatwg] Canvas size and double buffering.

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: On 3 February 2010 23:16, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 2/3/10 6:12 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: Ah yes that works nicely Hmm maybe I spoke too soon. The interaction of the CSS size and the canvas.width/height is confounding! It seems if you

Re: [whatwg] api for fullscreen()

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Campbell
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: enterFullscreen always returns immediately. If fullscreen mode is currently supported and permitted, enterFullscreen dispatches a task that a) imposes the fullscreen style, b) fires the beginfullscreen event on the element and c)

Re: [whatwg] api for fullscreen()

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Campbell
On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Brian Campbell lam...@continuation.org wrote: I'm a bit concerned about when the fullscreen events and styles apply, though. If the page can tell whether or not the user has actually allowed it to enter

Re: [whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-11-07 Thread Brian Campbell
On Nov 6, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Simon Pieters wrote: On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:11:18 +0100, Brian Campbell brian.p.campb...@dartmouth.edu wrote: Brian, since Firefox is doing what you proposed -- can you think of any other issues with its current implementation? What about for audio files

[whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

2009-10-31 Thread Brian Campbell
As a multimedia developer, I am wondering about the purpose of the timeupdate event on media elements. On first glance, it would appear that this event would be useful for synchronizing animations, bullets, captions, UI, and the like. The spec specifies a rate of 4 to 66 Hz for these

Re: [whatwg] framesets

2009-10-13 Thread Brian Campbell
On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Peter Brawley wrote: Ian, Your requirements aren't met by framesets Eh? Our solution meets the requirement and uses framesets. You have specified that your requirement is to prevent people from linking to or bookmarking individual pages inside of frames.

Re: [whatwg] HTML as a text format: Should title be optional?

2009-10-08 Thread Brian Campbell
On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: For example, see Google Gadgets http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/, or iframe sandboxes used for isolating untrusted content while still being inline in the page. Yes, if we add doc= support to iframe maybe that would make this case

Re: [whatwg] HTML as a text format: Should title be optional?

2009-09-23 Thread Brian Campbell
be seen or used, it doesn't seem likely that people will forget it in cases in which it's useful, and right now it is sometimes being filled with useless values like Untitled that actually get in the way of a UA computing a better value (such as the URL or the top level heading). -- Brian

Re: [whatwg] notation for typographical uncertainty

2009-09-20 Thread Brian Campbell
On Sep 20, 2009, at 8:43 PM, ddailey wrote: Ya'll probably have dealt with this already but here is the usage case My son and I are are typing my recently deceased Dad's memoirs from the Manhattan project. I'm saying to son: if you can't figure out what it says, type the characters you

Re: [whatwg] Microdata

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Campbell
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Based on some of the feedback on Microdata recently, e.g.: http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/124 ...and a number of e-mails sent to this list and the W3C lists, I am going to try some tweaks to the Microdata syntax. Google has kindly

Re: [whatwg] Comments on the definition of a valid e-mail address

2009-08-24 Thread Brian Campbell
On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: Yup. If it is deliverable then surely it's an alias to the same address without the trailing dot, in which case a browser could choose to remove it. Yes, it's not possible for example.com. to mean anything different from example.com. (In

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Campbell
citations. How many sites using cite for other purposes, including quite prominent ones, would it take to convince you that this is indeed a common pattern? -- Brian Campbell

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Campbell
On Aug 16, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Erik Vorhes wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Erik Vorhes wrote: It is often the most semantically appropriate element for marking up a name There is no need to

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-07-09 Thread Brian Campbell
is, you're going to need to use a microformat or microdata or RDFa to actually provide semantics that are machine- readable, so the spec should be relatively loose and leave the precise semantics up to one of the more flexible systems for specifying semantics. -- Brian Campbell

Re: [whatwg] Canvas context.drawImage clarification

2009-07-09 Thread Brian Campbell
a bug to WebKit for a Firefox rendering issue? I would think that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ would get better results. -- Brian Campbell

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-09 Thread Brian Campbell
On Jun 9, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Dave Singer wrote: I have to confess I saw the BBC story about sign-language soon after sending this round internally. But I need to do some study on the naming of sign languages and whether they have ISO codes. Is it true that if I say that the human language

Re: [whatwg] Cue points in media elements

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Campbell
:27AM -0400, Brian Campbell wrote: in our language, you might see something like this: (movie Foo.mov :name 'movie) (wait @movie (tc 2 3)) (show @bullet-1) (wait @movie) (show @bullet-2) If the user skips to the end of the media clip, that simply causes all WAITs on that media clip

Re: [whatwg] Cue points in media elements

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Campbell
On May 1, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Kevin Calhoun wrote: I believe that a cue point is reached if its time is traversed during playback. What does traversed mean in terms of (a) seeking across the cue point (b) playing in reverse (rewinding) and (c) the media stalling an restarting at a later

[whatwg] Cue points in media elements

2007-04-29 Thread Brian Campbell
, and can be used to display those captions in a way that fits the design of the content better. I hope these comments make sense; let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks, Brian Campbell Interactive Media Lab, Dartmouth College http://iml.dartmouth.edu