Re: [whatwg] Questions regarding Path object

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Norton
Hi Jürg, On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Jürg Lehni li...@scratchdisk.com wrote: More recently, things appear to have been named a bit more specifically, often with prefixes, e.g. HTMLCanvasElement, DOMParser, XMLHttpRequest (which is wrongly named, since it's used for much more than XML),

[whatwg] Canvas for web spectrometry

2013-10-17 Thread Michael Norton
sound esoteric or existential but i am actually being very logical and enjoying it too :-) Mike Sent by the hope boat. Begin forwarded message: From: Michael Norton no...@me.com Date: October 13, 2013, 1:25:45 AM EDT To: Kyle Huey m...@kylehuey.com Cc: wha...@whatwg.org wha...@whatwg.org

Re: [whatwg] Web development

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Norton
I have a case where an element serves as a tabulator of the states of its child elements which vary each time a new website is traversed or when a saved profile is loaded. It seems to me like the canvas element and its hit regions remedy this. Sent by the hope boat. On Oct 10, 2013, at 8:58

Re: [whatwg] Web development

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Norton
On Oct 10, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Because to get something adopted in a browser, you need to do the following (not always in this order): 1. Have someone design the feature. I have done this. 2. Have someone write a specification for it. I have begun this.

[whatwg] Not covered by traditional media

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Norton
Would you please send a quick reply to me with your opinion on these 2 statements: Hypertext is energy. (true or false) Particle/wave duality needs special attention with regard to hypertext. (True or false) I ask because some sci-fi I have written more recently happened to later coincide

[whatwg] Canvas implementors

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Norton
Hello Whatwg, I am about to submit a request for funding to U.S. to implement a web integrity service to bring a digital spectrometer to the browser market in order to help cohere and decohere device-independent online data assets oft shared among public and private sectors. Such should be

Re: [whatwg] Canvas implementors

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Norton
. On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Michael Norton no...@me.com wrote: It seems that the canvas element could really help make this a reality. The Editor's Draft I reviewed on the w3c site this week seems to suggest