The rules for parsing floating point number values [2.4.4.5] apply to the
input element in number state as well. This is not good. People who fill
forms tend to input numbers with the keypad --- that is what the keypad is
for --- and the keypad keyboard layout follows the local conventions and
An algorithm for calculating the weekday of Jan. 1st given a year would be
outside the scope of the HTML specification. Similarly, the HTML
specification does not describe how you increment a number by 1.
IMHO,
Chris
An algorithm to calculate the weekday of Jan. 1th given a year is not
obvious at all. Just the opposite: the more obvious an external fact is,
the easier (and more appropriate) it is to incorporate it to the
specification because it does not cause any distraction from the main
subject.
Cheers,
It is impractical to convert video that was already compressed. My attempt
to convert QuickTime to Theora inflated the file from 10 MB to 50 MB; this
is unacceptable. Moreover, unpleasant visual artifacts appeared.
I was told it must be like that; you can get satisfactory compression
results
While I actually defended the recommendation to use the SMALL element for
legal text, and I am still ready to do it, it is worth noting that the text
of section 4.6.6. does not contain such a recommendation. It merely states
that out of possible uses of the SMALL element, the legal use is the
It is possible to create no-script fallback without a NOSCRIPT element. You
can put it into d...@class=noscript] and remove the DIV at run time.
It is worth noting that XHTML 1.0, along with deprecating MAP/@name, still
has the unrealistic assumption about usemap containing an arbitrary URI. I
If the author wants to show only a sample of a resource and not the full
resource, I think she does it on purpose. It is not clear why it is vital
for the viewer to have an _obvious_ way to view the whole resource instead;
if it were the case, the author would provide for this.
IMHO,
Chris
OTOH, if the media player scroll bar has zoom function, the problem of
navigation deficiency in a short interval disappears. When the browser
displays a fragment, it can just zoom the scroll bar to the fragment
displayed.
IMHO,
Chris
Křitof elechovski would like to recall the message, [whatwg] URL
decomposition on HTMLAnchorElement interface.
attachment: winmail.dat
The sniffing draft
http://webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/2009/mime-sniff/mime-sniff.txt in
sufficiently prescribes what happens if MIME content type is specified as
text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-2. MSIE 7 refuses to render documents like
http://www.kobiko.com.pl/pub/hello.xml unless the encoding is
Having interjected words marked as spelling errors is not a failure. The same
phenomenon occurs with proper names and you cannot help that.
The UI you described is inconsistent and it should be fixed. The control for
German should be labeled Fehlerbeſchreibung or whatever.
Best regards,
Chris
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,
, 2008 6:06 AM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: 'WHAT-WG'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Allow block content inside label element
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
The text that Windows places near check boxes and radio buttons
corresponds to INPUT[value], not to LABEL.
No, the value
, at least
not in all cases, without reorganizing content. So you cannot implement
support for HTML label in terms of Windows TITLE.
Chris
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From: Ian Hickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:20 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: 'WHAT-WG'
Subject: RE
The text that Windows places near check boxes and radio buttons corresponds
to INPUT[value], not to LABEL.
Internet Explorer redirects focus from labels to obey HTML 4; according to
HTML 5, it should stop. Should it really? And what should happen with
labels on HTML 4 pages? The user experience
Binoculars are more appropriate because they can be used to look around
whereas a magnifying glass cannot.
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Päper
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:55 PM
To: WHAT working group
Subject: Re:
MSIE7 is not offered as an update for Windows XP running on Pentium II. I
dared not check whether it is possible to install it nevertheless. That
might explain that 20%.
Chris
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Actually the chances of name conflict rise square-exponentially, like 1 −
exp(−C*N²)
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manu Sporny
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:50 AM
To: Ian Hickson
Cc: WHAT-WG; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
I am very disappointed. onhashchange intuitively means that the content
hash changes (which is more or less equivalent to modifying the content, of
course). I would call this event onreveal to be in line with the primary
bookmark semantics. The name is inspired by the Finder AppleScript
I am not sure what Ian means. M.S.'s description at
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/010043.html
he seems to be opposing is definitive, exhaustive and that is what Internet
Explorer 7 does. Scripts attached to elements included in supported objects
do not run. An
Abuse: use in a manner that does not meet the intended purpose. Example:
creating a LINK element that does not link to any resource.
HTH
Chris
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From: Mark Finkle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 7:18 PM
To: Krzysztof Żelechowski
Cc:
Connect adjectives with a hyphen, do not connect an adjective to a noun.
This rule is no rocket science and it is common knowledge and its usage is
much broader than English (although there are languages that prefer to glue
adjectives together). Do you disagree?
Chris
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Regarding your page at the URL
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level.html
#the-embed:
The following declaration is bad and wrong:
Is: margin-top: -2.5em
Should be: margin-top: -2.5ex
Wrong: A horizontal unit is applied to a vertical measure
Bad:
Element headings
PM
To: Křištof Želechovski; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Bad CSS on the multipage version
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:25:28 +0200, Křištof Želechovski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding your page at the URL
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level.html
regards,
Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Bad CSS on the multipage version
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:39:31 +0200
the same background on the first element (which would work for
background colors).
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:44 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
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Subject: Re: [whatwg
Whether a paragraph following a subsection can belong to the containing
section is a very interesting question indeed. I remember my mathematical
mind missing such a feature in Microsoft Word; it seems traditional
typography does not support such mathematical structuralism. I think there
may be
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Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:38 AM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: WHATWG; HTMLWG
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Review of the 3.16 section and
theHTMLInputElementinterface
I don't think this is a valid argument since you can change it anyway [1
Getting suport from Lynx is the easy part; the hard part is to get the
supporting Lynx to all those BBS out there. This is very much different
from the personal browser the user can control.
Chris
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I do not feel like having the file submission control styled and customized
in any way; submitting a file poses a serious security and privacy risk so I
would not like to see this control disguised as something else. Just like
an alert window title, it should have a consistent look for all
converse is more an adjective like opposite to me. Which is even more
awkward.
Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:12 PM
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5
Karl
Commands typed at a computer prompt do form a conversation between the
commander and the executor (if the executor responds - otherwise it is good
old CODE).
On the other hand, a speech is closer to a monologue (soliloquy).
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL
Removing @rev is harmful for Lynx because that is how it decides who the
author is.
At any time while viewing documents within Lynx, you may use the 'c'
command to send a mail message to the owner of the current document if
the author of the document has specified ownership. (Note to
I am not sure I understand.
If the document is served as application/xml, should the user agent treat is
as XHTML if appropriate?
OTOH, if the document is served as text/xml, should the user agent obey the
stylesheet processing instruction?
(IIRC, FF ignores the stylesheet if it detects html in
The integers should be separated by times; and not by x. In case you
care about semantics, that is.
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:18 AM
To: WHATWG
Subject: [whatwg] link rel=icon width=
I have recently developed an application to identify persons pointed at on a
photograph. When person A stands in front of person B the inquirer moves
from person A to person B, the application becomes unstable: exit A, enter
B, exit B, enter A. It is rather annoying. The person behind should be
I think it is safest not to replace the placeholders at all; the data server
engine should accept queries with parameters (submitted separately).
Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:15 AM
To:
The problem does not exist in German grammar because the infinitive is
placed at the end.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maciej Stachowiak
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:03 AM
To: Peter Kasting
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Geoffrey
I do not know about Lucida Grande, I stopped at Charcoal. Sad but true.
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Text APIs on canvas
Apple Macintosh,
Message-
From: Křištof Želechovski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:45 AM
To: 'Charles'; 'WHAT working group'
Subject: RE: [whatwg] Some video questions
I am not sure what you had in mind. It seems irrelevant whether the video
stream is embedded or linked from another
I think it should be possible to embed rendered bit map images in SVG for
lower resolution, just as TrueTypeT fonts embed ideograms.
Chris
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:28 PM
To: fantasai
I am agaist using compound attributes like this; make it 16times;16 if you
insist.
Best regards,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maciej Stachowiak
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:13 AM
To: Ian Hickson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
This issue is not limited to PRE, nor is PRE the main application.
There are numerous community Web sites
that allow the users to submit hypertext content.
You often get I italic /I B bold/B after you submit
unless you use a zero-width non-joiner between them.
While this is not strictly a
Although providing the footnote as a tool-tip
seems appealing at the first glance,
it is not exactly how it should be done.
Footnotes are commonly used for bibliographic references;
using the title attribute seems to be a non-solution in this case.
Text of such footnotes cannot be copied
and
What is the advantage of cutting an image to parts
and having the browser show them as one by putting them aside?
I would rather use one big image in the first place.
Chris
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Sent: Monday, April 21,
I am sorry to hear that cross-references are gone. The replacement you
suggest does not catch the difference between navigational and informational
hyperlinks. The difference is essential e.g. for GNU info: navigational
links are near jumps to child nodes; informational links can transport the
Or even img src=11100 alt=3/5
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Mason
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:14 PM
To: Simon Pieters
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation
Simon Pieters wrote:
For
ALTGROUP is a dirty trick; if you insist on having the images separate,
which you really should not do, you can have
image alt=3/5
img src=part1.png /img src=part2.png /img src=part3.png
/image
This extension would be closer to the meaning IMHO.
Otherwise, what happens if the images that
If the server infers the MIME type from content and sends it over HTTP as it
should, you can have both.
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Zbarsky
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:10 AM
To: William F Hammond
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
How about target=_guide instead?
A reference is usually lengthy and unreadable;
the designer should know better
than to treat the poor user with a reference.
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Paul Thomas
Sent: Saturday,
this functionality to Firebug as an extension.
Best regards,
Chris
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From: Leons Petrazickis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:29 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: Brady Eidson; WHATWG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [whatwg] SQL API + access to tables
You need
Convenience methods such as the one proposed here should not make it to the
standard for the sake of clarity and compatibility; the programmer can reuse
an existing wrapper function instead:
var link_to_add = createLink(link_text);
This approach is safer and saner.
Best regards,
Chris
It seems audio should be regulated by the attribute 'sound-volume' valued as
a portion of the system sound volume level. Too bad CSS does not define it
(unverified; I cannot look it up because whatwg.org is not responding:(145)
Connection timed out).
Cheers
Chris
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From:
The primary purpose of the display attribute is to regulate layout. That an
element with no display is not visible is only a side effect. As long as
there is no public standard for sound layout (the composers' and arrangers'
know-how has not permeated to the Web yet and the acronym AUI is not
I have not got the original Mr. Cox's suggestion so I can reply only
indirectly.
1. CSS does not have elements, it defines attributes.
2. active: none is language abuse, it should be playback: none or
active: disabled.
Chris
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And the user probably will not visit the page ever again, just as a page
with bgsound. But that is up to the designer developer of course.
Sorry for wasting your time, I just could not resist.
Chris
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It is normal that the disk gets full; the probability of this event is 1 for
a consumer disk. (Admittedly, the operating system can cry aloud and refuse
to do anything when the startup volume is about to overflow but the database
could be stored on another volume that is not protected that way).
Aside: the net gain from shortening INVALID_STATE_ERROR to INVALID_STATE_ERR
is 2/19; is it worth sacrificing readability for 11% length?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brady Eidson
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:08 AM
To: Geoffrey
It looks like an unintended omission to me. I would say If the *expected*
database version is an empty string, which is ambiguous as well, but it is
about the expected version of course.
I think that if someone opens a database without expecting a particular
version and the database already
Maybe I am wrong but I have a feeling that the need to quote anything
programmatically means that the underlying programming language has a severe
flaw. Quoting is a primitive method of marshalling requests for persistence
and transport; such needs are best handled behind the scenes. If I have
Of the MIME type text/plain, text is the type and plain is the subtype. In
my opinion, the type property should not vary in order to remain consistent
with its behavior in other controls; you can suggest a subtype property if
you find it useful.
Cheers
Chris
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From:
4) SVG
5) VML
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 7:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ian Hickson
Subject: Re: [whatwg] dashed lines in Canvas
Trying to make UML Diagrams in the browser, current
Which other application exactly do you have in mind? The applications I
know mostly ask the opener.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
O'Callahan
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:46 AM
To: Maciej Stachowiak
Cc: Křištof
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Apps
Surely it would be possible for the browser to transparently store
the encoding in the event that none was defined by the developer?
is not a good idea.
Cheers,
Chris
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Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 3:20 AM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Aaron Boodman'; 'Ian Hickson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
'Dave Camp'
Subject: Re
The proper way to handle errors is to use language-specific constructs. The
window object in Internet Explorer was required to fire error events as a
substitute because Visual Basic scripting edition's support for handling
errors is lame. It is possible to do it but it is very tedious.
Please
Why not text/xml+cache-manifest?
(Admittedly I can see a problem with this: '+' means addition but '-' does
not mean subtraction so it looks quite funny).
Chris
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Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007
I do not share your reservations. The file contents does not constitute its
property and, unlike properties, much work is actually needed to extract it.
Therefore the name chosen seems very appropriate.
How is the character encoding determined when the file is read as text? An
arbitrary file is
What makes you think that a radio button can be checked? My trust in your
statement will be inversely proportional to its self-confidence. Please use
some supporting arguments instead of bold assurances.
Chris
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From: Jon Barnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
it is possible that the value of the attribute named
checked of a radio button may be true, it does not make it checked
indeed.
Cheers
Chris
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From: Simon Pieters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:47 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski; 'Jon Barnett'
Cc
: Garrett Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:33 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Progress Events done event
On 8/27/07, Křištof Želechovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remember that JavaScript is a programming
Please note that my post was not about standardizing, it was about adding a
check box or a description. How the check box is labeled is up to you,
provided that your audience understands the label; there is no need to
standardize that.
Cheers
Chris
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From: [EMAIL
The natural implementation of such a paradigm is using a table with a group
of radio buttons. It seems the tool you attempt to use does not match the
task you want to perform.
Chris
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Sent:
Remember that JavaScript is a programming language after all. You can use a
loop to get rid of the repetitions.
Start from
var done = [load, error, abort]...
and apply the closure image.aEL(?, hPB, false) to it.
Sincerely,
Chris
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Any serializer that needs an exotic character set should also have a way of
retrieving the character set. This character set need not be specified
within the fragment stored because it would probably be the same for many
fragments. The serializer should rather store it elsewhere without
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:40 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: 'whatwg'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Serialising HTML to Files in Non-Unicode Encodings
Křištof Želechovski wrote:
Any serializer that needs an exotic character set
wrote:
Dnia sobota, 11 sierpnia 2007 22:14, Maciej Stachowiak napisał:
On Aug 11, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
Originally the name after the hash was a bookmark, not a fragment,
because
it would be defined on an anchor. I agree that until the new
semantic makes
You would read such a document in the following way: you choose a language
that suits you and read it in that language. You only look at the other
column when you want to know what your contractor can see in the text of the
agreement. The text is not interlaced but it is vertically synchronized
Originally the name after the hash was a bookmark, not a fragment, because
it would be defined on an anchor. I agree that until the new semantic makes
it to the common knowledge using the name fragment for the purpose may be
surprising for some developers.
Best regards
Chris
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How about onreveal?
Motivation: AppleScript Finder suite has event miscmvis (make visible)
that the Finder dictionary shortens to reveal as in
Tell application Finder to reveal controls panels folder
That more or less corresponds to the URL
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: 'WHAT Working Group Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Where did the rev attribute go?
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
Automatic: class=A-N means A N. No spec needed.
E.g.: class=red-herring means a red herring, and class=important-news
means
some
text
editors, e.g. ChiWriter.
Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:08 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski; 'Ian Hickson'
Cc: 'WHAT WG List'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Looking at menus in HTML5...
I
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Fedoniouk
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:46 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski; 'Ian Hickson'
Cc: 'WHAT WG List'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Looking at menus in HTML5...
I would insist that following
menu type
Mnemonics in menu items are indispensable for actions you have to repeat
many times. For example, Visa periodically opens a promotion where you can
enter your credit card payments one by one. If you do it once a month, you
usually have quite a few of them to enter. Using a mouse for the
First of all, your example renders as CopyCtrl-C so you really need a quad
space in between.
Second, using a typewriter font in a menu is a bad idea because it is wider
than ordinary text and it attracts more attention than the menu label
itself, which is an evident annoyance. If you really have
I think it can already be done using DHTML overlays. Thus no instant
amazing breakthrough is to be expected.
Chris
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:34 AM
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Subject:
Navigation buttons on the page make sense in a restricted environment for
visiting customers where the browser runs in kiosk mode and it is restricted
to selected commercial content of the corporate site and therefore it has no
UI controls. I can imagine the visitor may be allowed to print some
The acronym URL expands to Uniform Resource *Locator*. The string
print:# does not match this spec: it is not a locator, it is a processing
instruction. BTW, the full form of the local URL # can be viewed as
html:# (whether it is allowed by the URL standard or not) which means that
you need a
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stijn Peeters
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:54 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: WHATWG
Subject: Re: [Whatwg] Request for HTML-only print link
Křištof Želechovski schreef:
href=print://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work
]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:22 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Whatwg] Request for HTML-only print link
Křištof Želechovski schreef:
href=print://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ is no good; it
asks the browser to find the resource using the print
: [whatwg] Entity parsing [trema/diaeresis vs umlaut]
On 26 Jun 2007, at 7:49AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
Internet Explorer apparently chose to support English natively
while SGML preferred remaining language-agnostic.
To be fair, this is not how things developed.
Microsoft first chose
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Entity parsing [trema/diaresis vs umlaut]
On 25 Jun 2007, at 11:44AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
To make it explicit and plain: the dieresis is a diacritical mark that has
no intrinsic phonetic connotation, although it is used mostly
The difference between I.2 and I.3 is that I.2 is in English and I.3 is in
French. Internet Explorer apparently chose to support English natively
while SGML preferred remaining language-agnostic.
Chris
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understand US English only.
Cheers
Chris
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Aside: I know that it can be changed but iuml is a very unfortunate name
for i tréma. How about deprecating iuml in favor of itrema?
Chris
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Your hypothetical author is unable to insert an embed element because embed
is all English to him. Being able to use a Mandarin attribute name will not
help him much because he cannot produce the element to use it with.
Considering Arabic script and the like, the time is probably near when we
The script in question is already as bad as it can be: it needs time 10 *
(5 + content length) and 20 context switches to run. I would not mind
making it even worse by reexecuting the script each time. There is a chance
the script developer would learn how to write better code (that is, a DOM
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Allow block content inside label element
On May 9, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
The restriction on LABEL behavior is not a clarification, it is a
change.
Sorry, that was a poor word choice
The restriction on LABEL behavior is not a clarification, it is a change.
The browser vendor has to choose whether it is compliant with version 4 or
5. Therefore the current behavior can hardly be called a bug. Note that
this change is not reported on the Wiki
Considering internationalization: the alternative text should be translated
to the language of the surrounding text, of course. I would recommend such
a workaround only if some alternative text is required; see the OP.
The point is that the browser tells the viewer that ho is missing some
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