Re: [whatwg] scripts that remove focus from links during document navigation

2008-06-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: Opera has a serious usability problem for keyboard- and device-users when pages do the following: a href= onfocus=this.blur() This coding is very common because IE adds a small outline border to focused links. Authors who do not like this

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

2008-06-01 Thread Henri Sivonen
The HTML5 draft says that authors should not use EBCDIC-based encodings. This is more lax than saying that authors must not use and user agents must not support CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU. In general, now that UTF-8 exists and is ubiquitously supported, proliferation of encodings is

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

2008-06-01 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Henri Sivonen wrote: This makes me wonder: Do the top browsers support any EBCDIC-based encodings but just without exposing them in the UI? If not, can there be any notable EBCDIC-based Web content? Internet Explorer should support any character encoding Windows supports (see the advanced

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

2008-06-01 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jun 1, 2008, at 17:25, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Henri Sivonen wrote: This makes me wonder: Do the top browsers support any EBCDIC-based encodings but just without exposing them in the UI? If not, can there be any notable EBCDIC-based Web content? Internet Explorer should support any

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

2008-06-01 Thread David Gerard
[just to whatwg] 2008/6/1 Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Philip Taylor made a test case: http://philip.html5.org/demos/charset/ebcdic/charsets.html It shows that browsers that use general-purpose decoder libraries (IE and Safari) support some EBCDIC flavors but browsers that roll their own

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

2008-06-01 Thread Ernest Cline
-Original Message- From: Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 31, 2008 5:02 AM To: Ernest Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED], WhatWG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href On Sat, 31 May 2008 04:20:10 +0200, Ernest Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED]