Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-22 Thread timeless
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: In practice, I think the only way to avoid this problem is for browsers to implement content-sniffing techniques of some kind to figure out the language, at least per field but ideally on a word-by-word basis. If

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-22 Thread Calogero Alex Baldacchino
Peter Kasting ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Calogero Alex Baldacchino alex.baldacch...@email.it mailto:alex.baldacch...@email.it wrote: Why not to let the user choose the language, as it happens in word processors? A UA can't choose accurately whether, for instance,

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-22 Thread Kornel Lesiński
Probably. However, establishing that the lang attribute is the first-choice language to check (which wouldn't prevent the UA from providing other choices, or just ignoring such behaviour due to a user preference, or using other dictionaries too -- and that might be suggested in a note on

Re: [whatwg] Caching offline Web applications

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Michael Nordman wrote: Fwi, this piece of functionality may warrant some actual consideration. I think this would add very little complexity to the spec and implementations, but would add a great deal of value. Big bang for little buck. Many applications that use

[whatwg] Video and Audio schema for validators

2009-01-22 Thread Arne Claassen
I'm trying to add video and audio tags to our XHtmlValidator and after going through http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ I've pieced together schemas for both, but wanted to ask if there was a more authoritative source? In particular, I came across a couple of event handlers

Re: [whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, James Graham wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: On Aug 28, 2008, at 15:00, Russell Leggett wrote: I actually think that using custom microformat-like conventions with classes or tags is really not as robust a solution as what is being attempted with RDFa (I honestly

Re: [whatwg] Video and Audio schema for validators

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Arne Claassen wrote: I'm trying to add video and audio tags to our XHtmlValidator and after going through http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ I've pieced together schemas for both, but wanted to ask if there was a more authoritative source? Nope, that's

Re: [whatwg] Caching offline Web applications

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Nordman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Michael Nordman wrote: Fwi, this piece of functionality may warrant some actual consideration. I think this would add very little complexity to the spec and implementations, but would add a great deal

Re: [whatwg] Caching offline Web applications

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Michael Nordman wrote: Thnx for the response Ian, much better than months of thundering silence. Sorry about that; the appcache feature was on the back burner for a few months as I tried to get through the pile of old feedback. I'm not yet sure we've come up with

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2009-01-22 Thread Calogero Alex Baldacchino
Kornel Lesiński ha scritto: Probably. However, establishing that the lang attribute is the first-choice language to check (which wouldn't prevent the UA from providing other choices, or just ignoring such behaviour due to a user preference, or using other dictionaries too -- and that might be

Re: [whatwg] Video and Audio schema for validators

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Double
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Arne Claassen ar...@mindtouch.com wrote: In particular, I came across a couple of event handlers in examples that i can't find defined anywhere in the specs, like ondataunavailable and oncanshowcurrentframe These are probably some of my examples that I wrote