Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread fantasai
Mark Baker wrote: The real problem here AIUI - at least in the context of HTML 5's inferred rel=feed bit - is not just entry documents, it's any Atom document which wouldn't normally be considered a feed by a typical user; something that most people would be interested in subscribing to. An

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread James M Snell
Actually, for the form application/atom+xml;type=entry it's more likely that browsers will completely ignore the type param as they do currently. - James fantasai wrote: [snip] That means rel=feed won't be implied on an Atom Entry document whether the new MIME type syntax is chosen to be

[whatwg] The event-source element

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
I can't recall if it has been already discussed: Why do we need an event-source element in the markup? It only makes sense in conjunction with scripting, so I think it would be better to drop this element and have the event source objects only created by scripts. Similar practices are already

[whatwg] Parsing: first bit of Close tag open state

2006-12-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
In the top part of the Close tag open state there's no mentioning of consuming the next input character and this is correct. However, then it goes on saying that you should reconsume the current input character in the data state. I think it makes more sense that to say that you just have

Re: [whatwg] The list of void elements

2006-12-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:33:30 +0100, Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#elements lists the elements which are considered void. The command and event-source also have empty content model, so shouldn't they end up there as well? That's in

Re: [whatwg] Sanctity of MIME types

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: Independent of what the specs say *MUST* happen, I'd like people to bring up one or more browsers with a URL from this list, and see if the browser asked them if they wanted to subscribe. Subscribe is not a normal feature associated with

Re: [whatwg] Start Tag Syntax

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:39:27 +0600, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The start tag may have a number of attributes, the syntax for which is described below. Attribute names must be separated from the tag name or a preceding unquoted attribute value, and should be separated

Re: [whatwg] Start Tag Syntax

2006-12-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:50:29 +0100, Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The start tag may have a number of attributes, the syntax for which is described below. Attribute names must be separated from the tag name or a preceding unquoted attribute value, and should be

Re: [whatwg] Start Tag Syntax

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:04:20 +0600, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The start tag may have a number of attributes, the syntax for which is described below. Attribute names must be separated from the tag name or a preceding unquoted attribute value, and should be

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:54:04 +0600, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean that the feed might contain items that were never part of the page linking to the feed. For example, this page: !DOCTYPE HTML titleFeeds for this site/title link rel=feed href=status.xml link

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread James Graham
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: As someone in the process of implementing a HTML5 parser from the spec, my _only_ complaint so far is that there aren't (yet) any testcases. If you could get together with the other people writing parsers and come up with a standard

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
James Graham wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: As someone in the process of implementing a HTML5 parser from the spec, my _only_ complaint so far is that there aren't (yet) any testcases. If you could get together with the other people writing parsers and

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread James Graham
Sam Ruby wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ I have no interest in participating in a project without test cases. You are entirely right that we have a serious lack of testcases at the moment. This is intended to be a temporary situation, hence my interest

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: If something can be deduced it is there for all intents and purposes. You can look at this from a very practical perspective: someone wants to build a HTML5 conformance checker. He has already implemented an al- gorithm that transforms a

[whatwg] Windows-1252 entities

2006-12-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
The section on handling entities should contain the following mapping: 128: 8364, 129: 65533, 130: 8218, 131: 402, 132: 8222, 133: 8230, 134: 8224, 135: 8225, 136: 710, 137: 8240, 138: 352, 139: 8249, 140: 338, 141: 65533, 142: 381,

Re: [whatwg] Sanctity of MIME types

2006-12-06 Thread Robert Sayre
On 12/5/06, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a request. It would be nice if the sniffing algorithm made an exception for text/plain. It would be nice, but Use case: http://svn.smedbergs.us/wordpress-atom10/tags/0.6/wp-atom10-comments.php Fixed in FF 2.0.0.1, btw. text/plain

Re: [whatwg] Start Tag Syntax

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:39:27 +0600, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The start tag may have a number of attributes, the syntax for which is described below. Attribute names must be separated from the tag name or a preceding

Re: [whatwg] Windows-1252 entities

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Anne van Kesteren wrote: The section on handling entities should contain the following mapping: 128: 8364, 129: 65533, 130: 8218, 131: 402, 132: 8222, 133: 8230, 134: 8224, 135: 8225, 136: 710, 137: 8240, 138: 352, 139: 8249, 140: 338,

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:54:04 +0600, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean that the feed might contain items that were never part of the page linking to the feed. For example, this page: !DOCTYPE HTML titleFeeds for this

Re: [whatwg] several messages

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: As someone in the process of implementing a HTML5 parser from the spec, my _only_ complaint so far is that there aren't (yet) any testcases. If you could get together with the other

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-06 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] A missing /option implies non-conformance but no parse error per 9.1 and 9.2 respectively. option and other form controls aren't yet really part of the specification, and are missing all over the place. I added these to the syntax section for you,

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] A missing /option implies non-conformance but no parse error per 9.1 and 9.2 respectively. option and other form controls aren't yet really part of the specification, and are missing all over the place. I

Re: [whatwg] Windows-1252 entities

2006-12-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:51:55 +0100, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1, though I would suggest a one change: 159: 376 // Yuml; Yeah. That was actually a mistake on my side. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/ http://www.opera.com/

Re: [whatwg] Sanctity of MIME types

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: On 12/5/06, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a request. It would be nice if the sniffing algorithm made an exception for text/plain. It would be nice, but Use case: http://svn.smedbergs.us/wordpress-atom10/tags/0.6/wp-atom10-comments.php Fixed in FF 2.0.0.1,

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types[was: trailing slash]

2006-12-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:52:17 +0530, Karl Dubost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 6 déc. 2006 à 04:08, Martin Atkins a écrit : Mike Schinkel wrote: All really sucessful text formats have been easy to edit (why did RSS take off while RDF is still struggling to get off the ground?) I don't

Re: [whatwg] Sanctity of MIME types

2006-12-06 Thread Robert Sayre
On 12/6/06, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How was it fixed? It was fixed in a way that covers mis-sniffed feed content specifically. That is, content that was sniffed as a feed but isn't one, like that Atom template or some FOAF files, are displayed correctly. These are edge cases. Both

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: So my authoring tool takes a conforming document, parses that into a Document, the user adds a proper table with only tr/td elements, and requests to save the document as HTML. My authoring tool then writes Document.innerHTML into the file.

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: I don't see any documentation that requires XHTML to not support display.write, but it certainly is a reality that nobody has done so. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#document.write1 (I'd like to make it work, but

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-06 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hm. Actually an optgroup start tag has to imply an /optgroup end tag for compatibility with browsers... spec fixed. Then nested optgroups as allowed in WF2 is just another thing that only works in XHTML5? How many sites would break if /optgroup wasn't

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-06 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Ian Hickson wrote: No conformance criteria are broken if the user agent is assumed to have converted the document to a serialisable form by adding an appropriate tbody element and then serialised that. If the user agent has not, e.g. it shows a tree of what it thinks it serialised, and that

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 6 déc. 2006 à 21:33, James Graham a écrit : Did you have a list for implementers somewhere? I think it would be a very worthwhile effort to come up with a set of implementation independent, self-describing (i.e. where the testcase itself contains the expected parse tree in some form),

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation andMime Types[was: trailing slash]

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: To say it is foundering seems to me like suggesting that jet aircraft are foundering because most people use propellor planes, or cars. Let me restate then: RDF is floundering to achieve widespread adoption. And from everything I've read, I've come to believe that

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ian Hickson: Validators are allowed to give any warnings or notes they like. (The spec only specifies that a validator must give no errors if there are no errors and must give at least one error if there are any, IIRC.) Is it possible for the spec to suggest/recommend that validators

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation andMime Types[was: trailing slash]

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Martin Atkins write: All really sucessful text formats have been easy to edit (why did RSS take off while RDF is still struggling to get off the ground?) I don't necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but it could be argued that RSS has done well while RDF has floundered

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: An interesting idea, but I don't see how Google would benefit from this. 1.) If the web get cleaner, it's easier for search engines to inspect documents 2.) If Google doesn't benefit from a better web, why would they pay Ian to edit the HTML5 spec? On the other hand,

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mike Schinkel wrote: Ian Hickson: Validators are allowed to give any warnings or notes they like. (The spec only specifies that a validator must give no errors if there are no errors and must give at least one error if there are any, IIRC.) Is it possible for

Re: [whatwg] References from the spec to wiki pages (was: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 6 déc. 2006 à 04:35, Alexey Feldgendler a écrit : On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:30:36 +0600, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A specification cannot refer to something as volatile as a wiki page. Actually, it's already doing that in another section.

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 6 déc. 2006 à 11:17, Karl Dubost a écrit : What Elias is saying is that the effort of RDFa community is 1. compatible with microformats (no changes are asked on this front) 2. being able to relate information distributed in a document (people do not want to have necessary to

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: xmlns attributes are invalid on HTML elements except html, and when found on unrecognized [elements] imply style=display:none unless you recognize the value of this attribute. There are millions of documents that would be broken by

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: The common pattern that I see is that xmlns=. It's certainly the more common value, but it is by no means the only one, as you will see if you examine the various examples I gave in more detail. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: The common pattern that I see is that xmlns=. It's certainly the more common value, but it is by no means the only one, as you will see if you examine the various examples I gave in more detail. My bad. Point made. - Sam Ruby

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ian: Elias Torres wrote: On the other hand, we keep missing the point, that no matter what the syntax is, in microformats at least (our current answer) we can't differentiate from class values that are properties/classes(types) and which ones are not. Here's at least one good use-case

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Lachlan Hunt wrote: It's not up to a specification to specify a conformance requirement stating which implementations can be used, nor mandating particular implementation details. By providing the suggest test I was trying to get people to use a conforming component for all the reasons I

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ian Hickson wrote: | [HTML5] is the format recommended for most authors. [...] Generally | speaking, authors are discouraged from trying to use XML on the Web, | because XML has much stricter syntax rules than the HTML5 variant | described above [...] --

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ian Hickson wrote: IMHO that's the kind of thing that belongs on the wiki or as an opinion piece on the blog (feel free to post either). But the spec should stay out of the way of such arguments. Well, I can't go beyond that. But please realize that if the spec did include it, even if it

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mike Schinkel wrote: The HTML5 parser would pass anything within XMLDATA elements to an XML parser and insert whatever it returns into the response stream. This could allow SVG and MathML to work, no? What's the use case? The use-case is to allow abitrary

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Karl Dubost
Sam, Le 6 déc. 2006 à 23:13, Sam Ruby a écrit : My original interest was to write a replacement for Python's SGMLLIB, i.e., one that was not based on the theoretical ideal of how SGML vocabularies work, but one based on the practical notion of how HTML actually is parsed. I'm not sure

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: div span class=ibm-part-descriptionour part number span class=part-id123/span/span/div Yes? What about it? I guess this is similar to Karl's example. div id=order1 class=ibm-order span class=ibm-part-descriptionour part number

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-06 Thread Elias Torres
Thanks for your patience trying to work out these extremely hypothetical examples with me. I need to figure out a way to get the internal examples out here so we can discuss them concretely. In the meantime, you have motivated me to look at the existing infrastructure with a different perspective

Re: [whatwg] References from the spec to wiki pages (was: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:08:56 +0600, Karl Dubost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A specification cannot refer to something as volatile as a wiki page. Actually, it's already doing that in another section. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#other I think it's inappropriate there as

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1:trailing slash and atheism)

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:09:44 +0600, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A specification cannot refer to something as volatile as a wiki page. Then have it refer to something less volatile than a wiki page. A section in the spec itself would be just fine. The wiki page could, of course,

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-06 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:09:44 +0600, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if these corporations were using content management systems that didn't produce standards-based code, you can bet those CMS vendors would soon have a new #1 priority, but fast. And THAT would clean up the web