Re: [whatwg] Script-related feedback

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Souders
Given that it is possible to do this from script, how common is it for people to do it from script? If it's very common, that would be a good data point encouraging us to do this sooner rather than later. 6 of the top 10 US web sites load scripts after the load event: eBay, Facebook, Bing,

Re: [whatwg] global object in onmessage event? Really?

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, David Flanagan wrote: Section 9.2.3, step 5 reads: Create an event that uses the MessageEvent interface, with the event name message, which does not bubble, is not cancelable, and has no default action. The data attribute must be set to the value of message

Re: [whatwg] Mistyping of title end tag causes white page

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Nikita Popov wrote: I noticed, that mistyping the ending title tag causes a white page and a title containing the whole source of the page (from the starting title tag on) in firefox3.6 with enabled HTML5 Parsing Algorithm. As I haven't read the the HTML5 Parsing

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: I'm wondering if data-* attributes should be renamed to priv-* to make it clearer that it's page's _private_ data. data- is such a nice generic prefix that I'm afraid sooner or later someone will start basing microformats-like markup on that.

Re: [whatwg] WebSocket bufferedAmount includes overhead or not.

2010-03-17 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
On 05.03.2010, at 15:32, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: for something no one should care about, as you implied above. From API perspective I do care. Web developers shouldn't need to know about the protocol, yet (s)he should be able to understand what bufferedAmount means. An explanation like

Re: [whatwg] #13; expanding to LF

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: HTML5 makes #13; expand to LF. What problem does this solve? None of Gecko, Presto, Trident or WebKit expand #13; to LF. (They all expand it to CR.) This makes the HTML5 parser fail

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel LesiÅ~Dski wrote: I'm wondering if data-* attributes should be renamed to priv-* to make it clearer that it's page's _private_ data. data- is such a nice generic prefix that I'm afraid sooner or later someone will start basing

Re: [whatwg] Multiple file download

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Jose Fandos wrote: Currently there are implementations allowing multiple file upload without the need for flash or java applets. What doesn't seem to be there, unless a java applet is used (haven't come across one using flash) is the multiple file download. Even

[whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-17 Thread Roger Hågensen
I searched the list, and looked at the HTML5 briefly and found nothing, nor can I ever recall such. So this is both a question and a proposal. On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an article in my journal as the meta description, and write one up for other pages,

Re: [whatwg] Parsing processing instructions in HTML syntax: 10.2.4.44 Bogus comment state

2010-03-17 Thread Brett Zamir
On 3/2/2010 6:54 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: The handling of processing instructions in the XHTML syntax seems reasonably well-defined; but it feels a little off in the HTML syntax. There's no such thing as processing instructions in