[whatwg] Spec review results I

2008-06-03 Thread Jens Meiert
Since currently reviewing and proof-reading the HTML 5 spec draft (again) I'm feeling free to send (rather non-technical) /suggestions/ and eventual typos to this list. This tiny first part refers to CVS revision 1.904 [1]. * Please drop or the idea that the working group should even spend time

Re: [whatwg] Focus management

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Simon Fraser wrote: Some web applications may need more control over focus than is offered by the existing focus management proposal: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#focus Specifically, it's hard to write JavaScript that has more explicit control

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 Feedback: Section 3.5.2 Focus

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Brad Fults wrote: A few things in Section 3.5.2: There is always an element focused; in the absence of other elements being focused, the document's root element is it. [1] This sentence is awkwardly worded and as far as I can tell, document's root element is

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 Feedback: Section 3.5.3 Scrolling elements into view

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Brad Fults wrote: There are a couple of problems I have found in this section. If it isn't possible to show the entire element in that way, or if the argument is omitted or is true, then the user agent must instead simply align the top of the element with the top of

Re: [whatwg] HTMLDocument hasFocus - should it be a function?

2008-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Adele Peterson wrote: I started implementing the hasFocus attribute in WebKit, but then I realized that IE and Firefox 3 both implement it as a function. Should the spec change to match the existing implementations? Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

[whatwg] Interpretation of video poster attribute

2008-06-03 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Hi! I'm a bit puzzled about how to interpret the poster attribute on HTMLVideoElement: The poster attribute gives the address of an image file that the user agent can show while no video data is available. The attribute, if present, must contain a URI (or IRI). Is the intention that this image

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] imageRenderingQuality property

2008-06-03 Thread Jerason Banes
If you don't mind someone weighing in who's been working with the Nintendo Wii for the past year and a half, I have found that the quality setting in Flash is tremendously useful. While the march of Moore's law has ensured that Flash on the desktop is zippy, it has also created a gap whereby

[whatwg] Fwd: Interpretation of video poster attribute

2008-06-03 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Philip Jägenstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm a bit puzzled about how to interpret the poster attribute on HTMLVideoElement: The poster attribute gives the address of an image file that the user agent can show while no video data is available. The

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 Feedback: Section 3.5.3 Scrolling elements into view

2008-06-03 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Nothing in the document can be further down than the bottom. If the document scrolls past the bottom, it shows nothing under the bottom but the bottom is in the middle of the window. This is inevitable if the document is short so that it can be displayed without scrolling (and without scroll

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2008-06-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:40:55 -0300, Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Hickson wrote on 27/05/08 07:47: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote: ... Many applications

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2008-06-03 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jun 2, 2008, at 15:40, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The disadvantage of using a data-* attribute is that more kinds of mistakes would be undetectable by a validator. It would have no idea that (a) the value of the attribute must be the ID of an element elsewhere in the document, and (b) each

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2008-06-03 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:51:39 +0200, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't like the idea of trying to encode the datatypes of data-* attributes in a validator-sensitive way. What datatypes would a validator support for data-* attributes? The HTML5 datatype library used by