Re: [whatwg] RDFa

2008-08-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: Custom data attributes are intended to store custom data private to the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or elements. -- http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom I'm confused. Are you trying to imply that my suggestion is

Re: [whatwg] WebIDL and HTML5

2008-08-25 Thread Garrett Smith
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heycam -- see at the end for a request for WebIDL. On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Brad Neuberg wrote: True, but having prototypes on DOM objects can be extremely useful and provide all sorts of very powerful options. Mozilla allows

Re: [whatwg] RDFa

2008-08-25 Thread Dan Brickley
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: The point was made before that html5 already has extensive extension mechanisms in place that can address the particular

[whatwg] HTML5 Offline Web Applications

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Nordman
Hello all, I have many comments on the Offline Web Applications corner of the HTML5 spec. This is the first round of comments you'll see coming from me. This one is mostly top-level comments. 5.7.2 Application caches I found the terminology used to describe the contents of the cache sometimes

Re: [whatwg] RDFa

2008-08-25 Thread Manu Sporny
Henri Sivonen wrote: ... Since RDF vocabularies use URIs as identifiers, I find creating more microformats (even if they need more one-off speccing) a more appealing way forward from the language usage point of view than importing RDF vocabularies in a generically mappable way. (I can't see

Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

2008-08-25 Thread Ben Adida
Ian, Thanks for the details. Some questions below. Ian Hickson wrote: The Database stuff was mostly driven by requests from large Web application authors (including, for example, GMail), who wanted to be able to offer their services even while their users were offline. I am quite

Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

2008-08-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Ben Adida wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: The Database stuff was mostly driven by requests from large Web application authors (including, for example, GMail), who wanted to be able to offer their services even while their users were offline. However, it's pretty clear

Re: [whatwg] Fallback behavior

2008-08-25 Thread timeless
Technically there was a time/way to tell gecko not to support frames. There was a time when i played w/ that support while we were spidering. Browser.frames.enabled / default / boolean / true. It seems to work as of a nightly from aug 13 (iirc it requires a restart. I'd suggest using a distinct

Re: [whatwg] Scripted video query proposal

2008-08-25 Thread timeless
For some strange definition of lie. You're defining a lie as ok and saying it isn't lying. i still don't see why this is valuable. Can you provide use cases where you won't harm my users? This probably means setting up a web page which explains what you're doing and how you're going to fall back

Re: [whatwg] Scripted video query proposal

2008-08-25 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Tim Starling [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: With this proposal, I'm trying to find a compromise between the opinions put forward on this list. Personally I'd be happy either way, as long as the interface gets added in some form. The yes = maybe definition pre-empts

Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

2008-08-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Ian Hickson wrote: ... So, just to be clear, how does that link up with SQL-in-browser? When you say people, do you mean web publishers / application builders? Users. One of the problems, for instance, was that they could not access their GMail while offline. ... So, out of curiosity,

Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

2008-08-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: ... So, just to be clear, how does that link up with SQL-in-browser? When you say people, do you mean web publishers / application builders? Users. One of the problems, for instance, was that they could not access their

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)

2008-08-25 Thread Manu Sporny
Ian Hickson wrote: I have no idea what problem RDFa is trying to solve. I have no idea what the requirements are. Ian, this is not an official response from the RDF in XHTML Task Force or the Semantic Web Deployment Workgroup. It is a personal attempt to outline some of the problems that RDFa