Re: [whatwg] Popular Background Geolocation question on StackOverflow

2018-03-25 Thread Philipp Serafin
2018-03-25 6:29 GMT+02:00, Roger Hågensen : > On 2018-03-24 22:32, Andy Valencia wrote: [...] >> We're all well aware of the behaviors which make browsers adopt such >> defensive measures. Are we looking at enough use-cases to think about >> some >> sort of general

Re: [whatwg] Popular Background Geolocation question on StackOverflow

2018-03-24 Thread Philipp Serafin
If this problem is specific to the "track a route" use-case, and the use-case is sufficiently widespread, would a dedicated "route recording" API make sense? E.g., a web page could ask the browser to continously record location changes and - at some time at the browser's discretion - push a list

Re: [whatwg] rel=bookmark

2017-08-06 Thread Philipp Serafin
As the IETF usecase seems to be about permalinks, is there any requirement for rel=canonical regarding validity in the future? Am 06.08.2017 3:20 vorm. schrieb "Kevin Marks" : > That use case sounds more like rel="canonical" > > On 6 Aug 2017 2:07 am, "Ed Summers"

Re: [whatwg] header for JSON-LD ???

2017-07-26 Thread Philipp Serafin
Paving the cowpaths is all well and good, but if it ends up recommending technologies which unilaterally favor some parties, that sounds like a big argument to develop a better technology. Mark Kaplun schrieb am Mi., 26. Juli 2017 um 17:07 Uhr: > > [...] > > As far as I know,

Re: [whatwg] header for JSON-LD ???

2017-07-26 Thread Philipp Serafin
Mark Kaplun schrieb am Mi., 26. Juli 2017 um 15:43 Uhr: > [...] > Basically the HTML is loaded first, and at some point you can have some JS > that will load the JSON by an AJAX request. google is happy to get the > JSON-LD this way [...] > This sounds like an interesting

Re: [whatwg] header for JSON-LD ???

2017-07-24 Thread Philipp Serafin
ber FastBoot etc..) Did you mean to reply to the group, or only to me? On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:30 AM Philipp Serafin <phil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Because it's annoying for human users if there is too much information > cluttering up the page that is nor relevant in the current context.

Re: [whatwg] Accessing local files with JavaScript portably and securely

2017-04-15 Thread Philipp Serafin
If I see this correctly, we're currently talking about two different use-cases for file/directory access: 1) Giving HTML apps the ability to "open" and edit local user-provided files and directories in a similar manner to desktop apps (the soundboard example) 2) Loading (parts of) the app itself

Re: [whatwg] Accessing local files with JavaScript portably and securely

2017-04-11 Thread Philipp Serafin
Domenic Denicola schrieb am Di., 11. Apr. 2017 um 18:01 Uhr: > From: whatwg [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of > Patrick Dark > > Bingo. This mailing list is for developing technology for the world wide > web, not for peoples' local computers. > Doesn't that

Re: [whatwg] Accessing local files with JavaScript portably and securely

2017-04-11 Thread Philipp Serafin
Patrick Dark schrieb am Di., 11. Apr. 2017 um 13:55 Uhr: > [...] The only good reason to distribute an application this way is > because you want it to be confidential [...] > Another use-case would be to develop a HTML app that does not require internet

Re: [whatwg] Accessing local files with JavaScript portably and securely

2017-04-09 Thread Philipp Serafin
Note also that the HTTP server solution requires you to ship a binary (the server) with your files, therefore sacrificing platform independence and requiring the user to run an untrusted binary, all just to show some HTML files. Jonathan Zuckerman schrieb am So., 9. Apr.

Re: [whatwg] Support for RDFa in HTML5

2012-03-12 Thread Philipp Serafin
I admit, I haven't really followed this debate. But out of interest: Is it by now actually possible to write any kind of implementation that complies to both, the HTML5 *and* the RDFa specification? Regards, Philipp Serafin Am Dienstag, 2. August 2011 19:32:52 schrieb Ian Hickson: On Tue, 2

Re: [whatwg] element img with HTTP POST method

2010-12-09 Thread Philipp Serafin
link location/copy image location etc. Maybe links/images with post-data could be treated like input elements regarding their context menu. Regards, Philipp Serafin On 09.12.2010 20:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 11:01 -0800, Adam Barth wrote: We've seen use cases for a similar

Re: [whatwg] element img with HTTP POST method (2)

2010-12-09 Thread Philipp Serafin
On 09.12.2010 20:41, Philipp Serafin wrote: On 09.12.2010 20:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: It makes sense in the case of a link like that, as it is changing some state on the server, which is what POST data was intended to do. If images are called with POST data, then that would prevent them

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: add attributes etags last-modified to link element.

2010-09-22 Thread Philipp Serafin
their avatar once when they register, though a few may change them based on mood, holidays, etc.) Regards, Philipp Serafin

Re: [whatwg] window.print() when printing is not supported

2010-03-26 Thread Philipp Serafin
be mobile devices that really have nothing even remotely comparable to a printing functionality. For those, it could make sense to hide print this page links to provide more screen real estate. I admit though, that's a rather esoteric use case ... Regards, Philipp Serafin

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-27 Thread Philipp Serafin
timeless schrieb: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Philipp Serafin phil...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you could still phrase it something along the lines of The size of a popup document's viewport SHOULD be calculated using the CSS shrink wrap algorithm... etc etc. as an embedder

Re: [whatwg] Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25 Thread Philipp Serafin
Filippo Levizzani schrieb: hey Giovanni, merry xmas and happy new year! :) Filippo Indeed! Frohe Weihnachten und einen Guten Rutsch ins Jahr 2009! Regards, Philipp Serafin

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-25 Thread Philipp Serafin
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Philipp Serafin wrote: I think it would be a good idea to spec this algorithm as well then. The algorithm I described is basically CSS' shrink wrap algorithm. But we can't really require it, as it assumes that the OS has windows. My desktop

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-18 Thread Philipp Serafin
dialogs to specify font settings, etc. The HTML in the dialogs could be displayed in a normal-sized browser window effortlessy. However, it would look pretty silly. Regards, Philipp Serafin

Re: [whatwg] MetaExtensions wiki page

2008-12-18 Thread Philipp Serafin
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:46:51 +0100, Philipp Serafin phil...@gmail.com wrote: I guess this is more a cosmetic remark, but I thought I'd bring this up anyway. I've noticed that the paragraph on the MetaExtensions wiki

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-18 Thread Philipp Serafin
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Philipp Serafin wrote: There is no reasoneable default size the page could adjust to. If the author can't specify the size of a popup/dialog, what algorithm should the UA use to find out the correct optimal size? Lay out the page at infinite

[whatwg] MetaExtensions wiki page

2008-11-24 Thread Philipp Serafin
been changed to ... or must be defined by a W3C specification in the Candidate Recommendation or Recommendation state. some time ago. Shouldn't both paragraphs be identical, or are @rel and meta values really handled differently? Cheers, Philipp Serafin [1] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki

Re: [whatwg] salvaging work while navigating away from a web app -- onunload=confirm('save before quitting?')

2008-11-17 Thread Philipp Serafin
Thomas Broyer schrieb: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:03 AM, ddailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Concerning the first thing I need to fix, I am not sure if HTML5 currently provides a solution for. Here's the sitch: because of an extensive use of CTRL sequences in the interface, the user will

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-05 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Leons Petrazickis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It matters in the sense that web browsers would have to implement both approaches for backwards compatibility. This depends what you mean when talking about implementing a tag. Browsers already load all tags and

Re: [whatwg] WebForms2 validity

2008-10-28 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Eduard Pascual [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [The best] solution I can think of this would be an additional pseudo-class, such as :default, :initial-value, :non-modified, or anything like that (I'm really bad at naming stuff, so please take those only as

Re: [whatwg] Callback driven initialization of canvas

2008-10-22 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Fabien Meghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The goal would not be to completely forbid canvas but to block it by default while allowing the user to activate it when he wants to. This is a nice feature to have, but the problem is, would it work in reality? It works

Re: [whatwg] a and button

2008-10-19 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Håkon Wium Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have a simple way of using button along with a to create pretty links. This markup works in Opera, Mozilla, and Webkit: a href=http://www.w3.org/;buttonW3C/button/a but it's not valid HTML5 it seems. I

Re: [whatwg] Canvas performance issue: setting colors

2008-10-04 Thread Philipp Serafin
thinking out loud Just had a thought (no idea how original) -- how about if fillStyle were able to accept a 3 or 4 number array? eg. fillStyle = [0, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0] ? That might work well if people are using arrays as vectors/colours /thinking out loud Instead of an array, we could also use

Re: [whatwg] WebSocket support in HTML5

2008-09-29 Thread Philipp Serafin
, it's not like the other technologies would vanish all of a sudden. If you have sufficient control over your server, you can STILL use Java or Flash sockets. Regards, Philipp Serafin

[whatwg] RDFa

2008-09-09 Thread Philipp Serafin
Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but it looks to me as if RDFa uses namespaced identifiers nowhere outside attribute values right now. So couldn't you just introduce a rdf specific namespacing system for example like eRDF does[1]? This way, RDF parsers could still look up metainformation about

Re: [whatwg] Application deployment

2008-07-27 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Russell Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I checked through the archives, but did not see anything, so if this has been addressed already, I apologize. This is a suggestion that is more helpful to larger single page web applications, but could also be

Re: [whatwg] Web Sockets

2008-07-22 Thread Philipp Serafin
with HTTP. If desired, maybe we could add an API to XHR to control pipelining though? Regards, Philipp Serafin

Re: [whatwg] TCPConnection feedback

2008-06-24 Thread Philipp Serafin
. Java applets can already do pure TCP connections to the server they are hosted on, and I have never heard of the type of attack that you describe above. Regards, Frode Regards, Philipp Serafin

[whatwg] TCPConnection feedback

2008-06-20 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Frode Børli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this will be a far better solution than opening a second communication channel to the server (ref my other posts). Would that be so much of a problem though? Your web application opens multiple connections today

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for cross domain security framework

2008-06-20 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Frode Børli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the socket is created like this: var socket = new WebSocket(http://www.example.com/chatserver.xsocket;); Then the .xsocket file is an XML file specifying exactly how the WebSocket should connect to the server and perhaps

[whatwg] TCPConnection feedback

2008-06-18 Thread Philipp Serafin
Still I do not believe it should have a specific protocol. I think a major problem with raw TCP connections is that they would be the nightmare of every administrator. If web pages could use every sort of homebrew protocol on all possible ports, how could you still sensibly configure a firewall

Re: [whatwg] Implementation of a good HTTPSocket (TCP-socket)

2008-06-18 Thread Philipp Serafin
down to a trickle. What do you think? With best regards, Philipp Serafin

Re: [whatwg] link rel=icon width= height=aRe:

2008-05-08 Thread Philipp Serafin
There's no need to request things more than once -- I base my editing decisions on the quality of the arguments put forward, not the quantity. By all means, if you have new information, bring it forward, but merely repeating what has already been said doesn't do anything. I'm sorry. I missed

Re: [whatwg] link rel=icon width=

2008-05-07 Thread Philipp Serafin
I'd like to plug the approach with MIME parameters again, because it seems by far the most elegant and clean to me. However, instead of specifying multiple sizes in one MIME parameter, couldn't we just define two parameters width and heigth (and perhaps a ratio for graphics without inherent