Re: [whatwg] Is EBCDIC support needed for not breaking the Web?

2008-06-02 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jun 2, 2008, at 04:27, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: Firefox and Opera being able get away with not supporting EBCDIC flavors suggests that EBCDIC-based encodings cannot be particularly Web-relevant. Even if saying that browsers MUST NOT support them might end up being

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-06-02 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:26:40 +0200, Ernest Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The a element can already do this and it would be backwards compatible. Backwards compatible with some user agents but not with the specs. Sure, but anchor is not backwards compatible with specs or user agents. --

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2008-06-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Ian Hickson wrote on 27/05/08 07:47: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote: ... Many applications provide inline help which is not a label, and the same attributes would be appropriate

Re: [whatwg] createImageData

2008-06-02 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
Sorry it took me a bit to respond here... so, ok, based on the discussion, I'd suggest: - user-created ImageData-like objects should be supported, e.g. with language such as: The first argument to the method must be an ImageData object returned by createImageData(), getImageData(), or

[whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
I'd like to propose adding an imageRenderingQuality property on the canvas 2D context to allow authors to choose speed vs. quality when rendering images (especially transformed ones). This is modeled on the SVG image-rendering property, at

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Oliver Hunt
Um, could you actually give some kind of reasoning for these? I am not aware of any significant performance issues in Canvas that cannot be almost directly attributed to JavaScript itself rather than the canvas. --Oliver On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: I'd like

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
Sure; bilinear filtering is slower than nearest neighbour sampling, and in many cases the app author would like to be able to decide that tradeoff (or, at least, to be able to say I want this to go as fast as possible, regardless of quality). Some apps might also render to a canvas just

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread David Hyatt
I like the idea of this property. I actually would love to see the SVG property applied to HTML img as well. :) dave On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: Sure; bilinear filtering is slower than nearest neighbour sampling, and in many cases the app author would like to

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
Yeah, I agree -- I thought that there was some plan somewhere to uplift a bunch of these SVG CSS properties into general usage? I know that Gecko uplifted text-rendering, we should figure out what else makes sense to pull up. (If image-rendering were uplifted, it would apply to canvas,

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread David Hyatt
On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: Yeah, I agree -- I thought that there was some plan somewhere to uplift a bunch of these SVG CSS properties into general usage? I know that Gecko uplifted text-rendering, we should figure out what else makes sense to pull up. (If

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Oliver Hunt
That's exactly what i would be afraid of people doing. If I have a fast system why should i have to experience low quality rendering? It should be the job of the platform to determine what level of performance or quality can be achieved on a given device. Typically such a property would

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
On Jun 2, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: That's exactly what i would be afraid of people doing. If I have a fast system why should i have to experience low quality rendering? It should be the job of the platform to determine what level of performance or quality can be achieved on a

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread David Hyatt
On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: On Jun 2, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: That's exactly what i would be afraid of people doing. If I have a fast system why should i have to experience low quality rendering? It should be the job of the platform to determine

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Vladimir Vukicevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I agree -- I thought that there was some plan somewhere to uplift a bunch of these SVG CSS properties into general usage? I know that Gecko uplifted text-rendering, we should figure out what else makes sense to

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Oliver Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's exactly what i would be afraid of people doing. If I have a fast system why should i have to experience low quality rendering? It should be the job of the platform to determine what level of performance or quality

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-02 Thread Oliver Hunt
On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Oliver Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's exactly what i would be afraid of people doing. If I have a fast system why should i have to experience low quality rendering? It should be the job of the

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-06-02 Thread Ernest Cline
-Original Message- From: Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 2, 2008 5:39 AM On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:26:40 +0200, Ernest Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The a element can already do this and it would be backwards compatible. Backwards compatible with some user agents but