Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-04 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Mittwoch, den 03.06.2009, 13:23 +0200 schrieb Kristof Zelechovski: The validator generates an error for the classid attribute (in line with what the specification says, I think). An error, unlike a warning, breaks any complex process that depends on successful validation of the components.

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-04 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The ActiveX components I use are proprietary non-standard technology. Granted. However, the interface to them, HTML, is standard and non-proprietary. Of course, one can use proprietary extensions like namespaces and data sources as well, and sometimes it is necessary for rendering and data

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote: A few comments, as requested by Ian Hickson. - End of 2.2.1, a typo: JavsScript instead of Javascript Fixed. - From section 2.4.2 I don't understand if boolean attributes with invalid values represent true or false. In addition, I don't

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: Now that classid is gone, what will be the workaround for ActiveX objects where they are needed? ActiveX controls are a vendor-specific technology, and thus not appropriate for explicit support in HTML5 (just like we dropped applet). The real

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, João Eiras wrote: The spec does not forbid to use non supported attributes and elements. Actually, it does. I've just made the spec even clearer about this, though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Christoph Päper wrote: Giovanni Campagna: - The second paragraph in 2.4.5.6 is hard to understand because the verb is at the end. I would rewrite as A week-year with a number *yr* has 53 weeks if corresponds to a year *yr* in the proleptic Gregorian calendar that has a

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The validator generates an error for the classid attribute (in line with what the specification says, I think). An error, unlike a warning, breaks any complex process that depends on successful validation of the components. I think the specification text should be rephrased so that the validator

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Regarding http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure. html#weeks: A week begins on Sunday, not on Monday. However, under the present assumption: Better: A week-year has 53 weeks if the first day of the year (January 1st) in the proleptic Gregorian calendar

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread James Graham
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: Regarding http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure. html#weeks: A week begins on Sunday, not on Monday. Not according to ISO [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Garrett Smith
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: A few comments, as requested by Ian Hickson. [...] - In section 3.3.3.7, instead of defining the syntax of style attributes, reference http://www.w3.org/TR/css-style-attr The style property has been part of

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-03 Thread Křištof Želechovski
It is possible to create no-script fallback without a NOSCRIPT element. You can put it into d...@class=noscript] and remove the DIV at run time. It is worth noting that XHTML 1.0, along with deprecating MAP/@name, still has the unrealistic assumption about usemap containing an arbitrary URI. I

[whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-04-05 Thread Giovanni Campagna
A few comments, as requested by Ian Hickson. - End of 2.2.1, a typo: JavsScript instead of Javascript - From section 2.4.2 I don't understand if boolean attributes with invalid values represent true or false. In addition, I don't understand if an empty value is false (as in XHTML1.0) or true (as

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-04-05 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Character set x-x-big5 cannot be registered because it is private. Now that classid is gone, what will be the workaround for ActiveX objects where they are needed? 1. Ask Windows browsers to support Type=application/x-oleobject;classid=...? 2. Use a custom DTD with classid for

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-04-05 Thread João Eiras
On , Kristof Zelechovski giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote: Character set x-x-big5 cannot be registered because it is private. Now that classid is gone, what will be the workaround for ActiveX objects where they are needed? classid is nevertheless proprietary, and no other user agent but IE will

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-04-05 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The specification forbids the authors using undefined elements and attributes; a document containing classid will not be valid. Still, the site hosting the controls will need a way to test validity of pages for QA. Chris

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-04-05 Thread Christoph Päper
Giovanni Campagna: - The second paragraph in 2.4.5.6 is hard to understand because the verb is at the end. I would rewrite as A week-year with a number *yr* has 53 weeks if corresponds to a year *yr* in the proleptic Gregorian calendar that has a Thursday as its first day (January 1st), or