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2009-06-09 Thread Ric Hardacre
automatically tone the richness of the web experience down with the user not having to lift a finger... Revised Proposal http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2008Jul/.html Original Proposal http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2008Apr/0003.html Ric Hardacre

[whatwg] Detecting Web Forms for future proof scripts?

2006-10-02 Thread Ric Hardacre
question remains: How to script WF2 functionality for current browsers in a way that both degrades AND yields to the UA when it can handle the functionality natively? Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] Lists, ins/del, and a

2006-08-30 Thread Ric Hardacre
HardacreI added this text while/ins the rain poured down/p Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Ric Hardacre
the nesting break it? If a named-anchor surrounded it's region it would also allow screen readers (for example) to very easily jump to a footnote and read it without having to guess where to stop and return to the main text. Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

[whatwg] non-checked checkbox posting success?

2006-07-24 Thread Ric Hardacre
(or setting checked) would toggle the true/false, and any values can be used in the toggle attribute: labelClick here if you have a dog input ... toggle = Dog owner,No dogs value=off ... /label I'm only attempting to provoke a discussion here, so dont take my code and attributes too seriously :-) Ric

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2006-07-03 Thread Ric Hardacre
in not just the JS universe but increasingly others (e.g. C#, and you can even do it with some objects in VBs) so it's not like we're introducing an alien concept here. Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?

2006-06-28 Thread Ric Hardacre
named banana_anc, perhaps. Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] progress draft

2006-03-28 Thread Ric Hardacre
to show that a progress indicator is, indeed, progressing. Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] Built Firefox, time to get cracking

2006-03-22 Thread Ric Hardacre
Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Ric Hardacre wrote: title says it all really, only took me a few days of trying, heh. There's little to no chance that anything i do stick in will make it into the trunk (esp as i'm only building FX not seamonkey) but it should all be good clean fun

[whatwg] Built Firefox, time to get cracking

2006-03-16 Thread Ric Hardacre
tempted to have a go at some of the forms stuff, specifically the submit button overrides (action, etc.) Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] The problem of duplicate ID as a security issue

2006-03-15 Thread Ric Hardacre
); } if( globalDocumentElement ) return globalDocumentElement.getElementById( elementID ); return null; } Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] The problem of duplicate ID as a security issue

2006-03-14 Thread Ric Hardacre
= document.getElementById( mysandbox ) e = eMSB.getElementById( id ); //e = DIV2 from within the sandbox: var e = document.getElementById( id ); //e = DIV2 Ric Hardacre www.cyclomedia.co.uk

Re: [whatwg] Targetting different anchors after submitting the form

2006-03-07 Thread Ric Hardacre
you have to install and configure first!) i could see this as something i could put in a local version to assist with making test-cases of the spec. ric hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] Targetting different anchors after submitting the form

2006-03-06 Thread Ric Hardacre
=submit name=ordertype value=sample text=PLACE SAMPLE ORDER input type=submit name=ordertype value=pro text=REQUEST PRO RATA INVOICE ric hardacre www.cyclomedia.co.uk

Re: [whatwg] Targetting different anchors after submitting the form

2006-03-06 Thread Ric Hardacre
attribute to point to multiple forms? One submits to one place, the other submits to another place. that might do it. can the data in my hypothetical cart belong to all the forms at once? ric hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] Targetting different anchors after submitting the form

2006-03-06 Thread Ric Hardacre
definition to the head was meant to solve. (though in my first example i did use a block-level form). ric hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] anchor(jump) DOM Event proposal

2006-03-02 Thread Ric Hardacre
) { ... default: return true; } } document.onAnchor = myonAnchor; --- Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] default select item that does not satisfy required attr.

2006-02-24 Thread Ric Hardacre
Ric Hardacre wrote: from the web forms doc in the comment at the bottom: * have a way of marking the first option of a select as the default but have it not satisfy a new required= attribute on select so that you can have selects that require a valid value. my proposed solution

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-15 Thread Ric Hardacre
Shadow2531 wrote: I was *messing* around with 2 different *examples*. 1.) http://shadow2531.com/opera/js/getElementsByClassName/000.html That one supports: getElementsByClassName(string); getElementsByClassName(array); If the string has spaces in it, it's considered that nothing will match

Re: [whatwg] oninput event

2006-02-14 Thread Ric Hardacre
Christian Schmidt wrote: Quote from the current working draft (10 January 2006) http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-change: UAs may delay firing the input event if the data entry is rapid. Authors must not rely on this event firing once for each key press, mouse input, or

[whatwg] Forms: Submit only changed inputs

2006-02-08 Thread Ric Hardacre
legacy browser would not see the distinction and send all fields, which makes no difference to a good server script as it would in effect be performing the (a) option mentioned earlier, only that client's response time would be effected. Ric Hardacre

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-07 Thread Ric Hardacre
Dean Edwards wrote: Jim Ley wrote: That is not immediately apparent, and neither is it apparent that a classname specific shortname is worthwhile when a CSSSelector one would be more appropriate.You don't continually add methods, methods are complexity, they need writing, they need

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-03 Thread Ric Hardacre
Gervase Markham wrote: Brad Fults wrote: I see this is still an open issue[1]. Is this now implemented as #1 (space-delimited class names to match)? I suggest either going with the space-delimited approach (as it's language-agnostic and well-defined at least) or with Aankhen's suggestion

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-03 Thread Ric Hardacre
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Ric Hardacre wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: If you have: p class=foo barFred/p p class=bar fooBarney/p p class=foo baz barWilma/p which should be picked up by getElementsByClassName(foo bar)? this also raises the possibility of some confusion as the order

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-03 Thread Ric Hardacre
Jim Ley wrote: On 2/3/06, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: the document of course shows no use cases at all. Is there some doubt that the ability to tag an arbitrary set of elements and later easily get an array of those elements is a useful feature for web

[whatwg] introduction, plus some form input ideas

2006-02-03 Thread Ric Hardacre
? would it need a hint to fill out default formatting too, appending the .00 if it is left off, etc. just a few, i'm eager to get web 2.0 forms into a much more usefull state than at present, and to not have to rely so much on javascript and css hacking to get things done! ric hardacre

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2006-02-03 Thread Ric Hardacre
Gervase Markham wrote: Brad Fults wrote: I see this is still an open issue[1]. Is this now implemented as #1 (space-delimited class names to match)? I suggest either going with the space-delimited approach (as it's language-agnostic and well-defined at least) or with Aankhen's suggestion of