A dieresis is not an umlaut so I have to bite my tongue each time I write or
read nonsense like iuml;. It feels like lying. Umlaut means mixed, a
dieresis means standalone. Those are very different things, and I can
never gets mixed so there is no ambiguïty. Since umlaut is borrowed from
A void element cannot have any content because there is no way to specify it
in the source. Such a relation is called entailment.
Chris
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I did not mean to bring it up; it was a carbon copy because HTML 5 was
mentioned. I shall not CC if you find such posts disruptive.
Best regards
Chris
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To: Kristof Zelechovski
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The URI reference http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/references.html in the
HTML 4 refers to RFC 2396 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt which is
obsolete by RFC 3986 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt . The latter
document has a new section 2.5: Identifying Data, containing the following
new
Why should I want to use a localized attribute name for the embed element?
I assume that the attribute named smörgåsbord should necessarily
correspond to an internal property of the same name. This would require a
localized compiler to compile the embedded object in the first place because
To: Kristof Zelechovski; 'Simon Pieters'; 'Thomas Broyer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Allowed characters in attribute names
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:18:28 +0200, Kristof Zelechovski
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Why should I want to use a localized attribute name for the embed
element? I assume
The embed element should be deprecated because of the expando feature that
makes it so special. I understand that having both embed and object can
capture some semantic differences where embed means display and object
means run but breaking the fixed interface rule weighs more than
introducing
Attribute names are limited to ASCII, attribute values are not.
Chris
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Steps
Of Ian Hickson
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:09 PM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
Cc: 'Henri Sivonen'; 'whatwg List'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Steps for finding one or two numbers in a string
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
Attribute names are limited to ASCII, attribute values
it does no harm either.
Chris
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Subject: RE: [whatwg] Steps for finding one or two numbers in a string
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote
At least, MSXML does not preserve white space even where mixed content is
allowed. I get span a/span span b/span when I XSLT span a/span
span b/span . I have to type #32; for all standalone spaces.
Chris
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To: Kristof Zelechovski
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] CR entities and LFCR
On Jun 8, 2007, at 09:24, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
Reading a file in text mode
The primary purpose of HTML is presentation, not scripting. You can have a
user agent that does not support scripting at all, or that does not support
scripting in your script of choice, but other elements of your presentation
should be rendered, whatever that means, and make sense without
A pattern with exponential matching time can be used to lock the viewer's
browser, potentially making her lose her input in other controls and other
windows; that means the pattern attribute must be disabled for restricted
sites.
Chris
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These negative values are a misleading hack in that the input value it
should be trimmed in the DOM as well to be consistent. If you need
autotrim, introduce an explicit attribute to this end. This would make the
side effect more explicit.
Chris
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And why not:?
2c) If the declared encoding was ISO-8859-2, replace that
character with the character that you get by casting the code point
into a byte and decoding it as Windows-1250.
Am I missing something?
Chris
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You should rather begin with (plain text) CR LF to subvert document type
sniffing. It is meant to be plain text, after all. You do not use tags in
plain text, be they fake or genuine.
Cheers
Chris
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Were such nesting specified and implemented, it would be easier to iterate
over definitions, and finding the DT given a DD and vice versa would be
easier (no chance of accidentally leaving the DI).
Of course, all of this can be achieved under the present state of affairs.
Can anybody show us an
pages and their authors generally are more skilled so they can
handle the additional difficulty.
Chris
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Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:36 AM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
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The script http://status.whatwg.org/annotate-web-apps.js used throughout
the specification pages, including
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-content
-type-sniffing.html#content-type-sniffing, causes an error under Internet
Explorer. The fix I posted was not
And besides, the bookmarklet uses the javascript protocol, which, IIRC, is
designed to produce a new document on the fly, not to modify the current
one. I do not think that a bookmarklet should be permitted to access the
document that is being displayed in the browser. You can say javascript:
Bookmarklets are free tools to help with . impossible tasks in your web
browser.
Indeed.
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?
That would be weird.
Best regards,
Chris
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] password option for window.prompt?
On May
:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] password option for window.prompt?
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
Forgive my being nosy: which uses?
a href=javascript:. is valid
. is not syntactically correct Javascript so script execution would be
aborted and it would
Works in IE? IE by MarsSoft?
Microsoft Application Search
http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redir.asp?EXT=svg answers:
Windows does not recognize this file type.
Chris
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The OP probably meant that maintaining so many contexts would cause a
comparable deterioration in performance. All user comments should be put in
one security context.
With all comments grouped together in such a manner, you could even use an
inline frame.
Chris
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The scripts should test the canvas variable before use. It is empty in IE7
and using it causes a runtime error.
Chris
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Done.
Note that the presentation reflects platform rule is unacceptable either
since that essentially means that markup is not allowed in the label, except
for the control that is being labeled.
Chris
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I have a weak feeling against this proposition. Not that I think it would
harm very much, it just seems not very appropriate.
From the behavioral point of view: The purpose of a LABEL control is to
redirect focus on click. It does not make much sense with a TEXTAREA
control that is usually big
Your quotation is incorrect because the Q element inserts language-dependent
quotation marks on its own. Your markup produces the following text:
« Toute forme de langage devrait être reconnue et libre d'exister sans
ironie. »
At least, it should. Internet Explorer does not do it because they do
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:25 PM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
Cc: 'WHAT Working Group Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] sarcasm
Le 25 avr. 2007 à 17:31, Kristof Zelechovski a écrit :
Your quotation is incorrect because the Q element inserts language-
dependent
quotation marks on its own
It seems you should replace all embedded content images with links to
download them as stand-alone resources if you want to be strictly conformant
with the images are an alternative of text theory. I am not particularly
happy with this method because I would have to use a graphic processor to
add
loopcount=forever? It looks better than Inf.
loopcount=-1? Is a number, + a static constant for LOOPCOUNT_FOREVER in
the DOM.
Not that I consider the exact wording very important anyway.
Chris
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For (2): alt=(Your browser does not display graphic images).
Chris
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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 7:48 PM
To: Kornel Lesinski
Cc: whatwg
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for
The method for reading Web pages off line is subscription, not downloading.
Your browser should support subscription. Enable it for your favorite pages
and you are done.
Chris
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What do you mean by rinse? Only the end user is in position to make the
necessary corrections if the input is invalid. Any interaction with the
user should not be executed inside a loop because it is a frustrating
experience where you do not know where you are, what you are operating on
and how
Pressing a button when the user agent is in paused state should cause the
button to remain pressed until the user agent wakes up and execution of the
associated event handlers should be deferred.
Chris
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message,
an animated icon, whatever in order to prevent this misunderstanding.
Chris
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Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] A few
Yes, they could, just like storey buttons in the lift.
Chris
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To: Kristof Zelechovski
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] A few editing suggestions for the HTML5 spec
Pressing
I think the correct fallback for a photograph for its own sake is alt=(Use
a browser that supports graphic images to view).
The problem is that such images usually have an independent caption that is
visible with alongside the image. Specifying a description of the content
of the image as the
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/010728.html
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 2:32 PM
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Subject: [whatwg] List captions
How often do we see something like:
Sorry for breaking into your realm, I just could not resist.
It seems that a recording that plays just once should have the loop-count
set to 0 (or left unspecified, of course). This means that the loop-count
attribute cannot be used to specify that the recording should not play at
all - which
Complex properties usually have their atomic counterparts in order that a
script can manipulate them conveniently. That means independence is not the
only factor here.
ChrisY
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script.defer to internal scripts
Hallvord R M Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27/03/07, Kristof Zelechovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3.17.1. The script element specification says:
defer (if the src attribute is present)
async (if the src attribute is present)
I understand that the async
Explicitly semantically: use DD for header, DT as a wrapper for items. It
means that a top-level list with a header must be wrapped in a DL for
completeness.
dl
dtSample Menu/dt
dd
dl
dtFile/dt
dd
ul
liNew/li
Admittedly, but I still cannot see why the defer attribute must not be
specified without an external source. What does this restriction buy you?
An opportunity to advertise DOMContentLoaded? Using this event is much more
complicated than using the defer attribute if it were supported.
Chris
AM
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Apply script.defer to internal scripts
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:49:41 +0200, Kristof Zelechovski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider the following example:
script type=text/javascript defer
function ha8validate(p5event) { return true
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#script 3.17.1. The
script element specification says:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#defer defer (if the
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#src10 src attribute is
present)
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