[whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-13 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, I'm very appreciative of the new canvas tag. (I think it has been a long time coming.) Now, I know that people are going to want to create animations using this. So, what I was wondering is if there are any built in facilities for this? (I didn't notice anything in the spec for it.)

Re: [whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-13 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: IMO, it would be better to a have solution to this built into the API. Maybe with some kind of drawing transaction. (A draw transaction is a little higher level than double buffering, and allows you use other systems for this, other than double buffering. And

[whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-13 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
Regarding the following point from the wishlist of the specification: Better defined user authentication state handling. (Being able to log out of sites reliably, for instance, or being able to integrate the HTTP authentication model into the Web page.) It would be nice if the UA could have

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-13 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:38:12 +0100, Hallvord R M Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest a new LINK rel definition: LINK rel=logout href=/logout.cgi / How about adding user's identity to this? So UA UI could show Logged in as $foo [Log out]. Is title attribute appropriate? -- regards,

RE: [whatwg] Web Apps 1.0 - DataGrid

2005-06-13 Thread Ben Meadowcroft
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Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-13 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, Having a way to logout the user from an HTTP authentication session is very desirable. The only reason I use cookie based authentication is because there is no way (that I know of) to log the user out of an HTTP authentication session. (Once they are logged in, they are always logged

[whatwg] OBJECT as a link target?

2005-06-13 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
Dear list, often a page needs to interact with a plugin and tell it to load another file. Today this is of course done with JavaScript, which is difficult because most plugins have different JS interfaces, and there are also differences between the plugins' ActiveX based interfaces in IE and the

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-13 Thread S. Mike Dierken
A couple notes - HTTP doesn't have sessions, that's a fiction that server authors created to optimize resources by holding onto later releasing those resources. It useful to talk about in regards to the application logic, but it's not part of HTTP. - different applications have different

Re: [whatwg] OBJECT as a link target?

2005-06-13 Thread S. Mike Dierken
Hence I thought it would be a great simplification if we could do the following: object type=application/x-shockwave-flash id=myMedia data=init.swf /object a href=animation1.swf target=myMedia load movie 1 /a You likely would want target=#myMedia instead. Also, wouldn't javascript be able

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-13 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On 6/13/05, S. Mike Dierken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple notes - HTTP doesn't have sessions, that's a fiction that server authors created to optimize resources by holding onto later releasing those resources. It useful to talk about in regards to the application logic, but it's