Re: [Wikitech-l] secure slower and slower

2009-07-07 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Marco Schusterma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: Public congresses, schools without protection for ARP spoofing (I got 0wned this way myself), maybe corporate networks w/o proper network setup... they all allow sniffing or in-line traffic manipulation. Not that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] * We could support video/audio on conformant user agents without the use of JavaScript.  There's no reason we should need JS for Firefox 3.5, Chrome 3, etc. Of course, that could be done without switching

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Remember the dot
Okay, first thoughts: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: It's clear at this point that HTML 5 will be the next version of HTML. It was obvious for a long time that XHTML was going nowhere, but now it's official:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew Garrett
On 07/07/2009, at 7:37 AM, Remember the dot wrote: Okay, first thoughts: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: It's clear at this point that HTML 5 will be the next version of HTML. It was obvious for a long

[Wikitech-l] SVN commit access for new SlippyMap

2009-07-07 Thread Christian Becker
Hi all, I'm developing the new OSM SlippyMap with Aude Avar. As our code has now made it into the Wikimedia trunk, I could use SVN commit access. As for my contributions, I externalized the JavaScript code and made it object-oriented, added support for image placeholders (i.e. click to get

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure slower and slower

2009-07-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Aryeh Gregor wrote: Yes, I'm aware all this is possible in theory. Even more trivially, just set up a nice high-quality wireless hotspot and do whatever you want with the traffic. But do you know of any time this has *actually* *happened*? Where a malicious person has successfully staged a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Remember the dotrememberthe...@gmail.com wrote: That page clearly says that there will be an XHTML 5. XHTML is not going away. By XHTML I meant the family of standards including XHTML 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, etc.. XHTML 5 is identical to HTML 5 except with a different

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure slower and slower

2009-07-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Marco Schuster wrote: Public congresses, schools without protection for ARP spoofing (I got 0wned this way myself), maybe corporate networks w/o proper network setup... they all allow sniffing or in-line traffic manipulation. Not that uncommon attacks, and when you know the colleague you do

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVN commit access for new SlippyMap

2009-07-07 Thread Christian Becker
Did that, thanks! Cheers, Christian On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Chad wrote: Drop a note on the [[Commit access requests]] page on Mediawiki.org too. Trying to keep requests all in one place these days :) -Chad On Jul 7, 2009 7:00 AM, Christian Becker ch...@beckr.org wrote: Hi all,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
Great, looks like HTML5 vs. XHTML fight is infecting everything. Just my 2 cents - I don't think that switching to new not yet W3C Recomendation is a good idea - many extensions and features are not yet finished (e.g. RDFa support for it) and considering a huge commotion in this area it might not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Sergey Chernyshevsergey.chernys...@gmail.com wrote: Just my 2 cents - I don't think that switching to new not yet W3C Recomendation is a good idea - many extensions and features are not yet finished (e.g. RDFa support for it) Much of the spec is very stable. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: Much of the spec is very stable.  We would not be using any part that's likely to change -- in most cases, only parts that have multiple interoperable implementations.  Such parts of the spec will not change

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Brion Vibber
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Remember the dotrememberthe...@gmail.com wrote: Why be cruel to our bot operators? XHTML is simpler and more consistent than tag soup HTML, and it's a lot easier to find a good XML parser than a good HTML parser. Because it will make the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Dale
I think if the playback system is java in ~any browser~ we should ~softly~ inform people to get a browser with native support if they want a high quality video playback experience. The cortado applet is awesome ... but startup time of the java vm is painful compared to other user experiences

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Brion Vibber
At a minimum, I'm glad to see the dead-ended XHTML 2 working group officially killed; actual compatible implementations of ongoing work are happening in the HTML 5 world and that's where the future definitely is. I don't see much need for us to stick with the XML formulation for the next

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Brion Vibber
Michael Dale wrote: I think if the playback system is java in ~any browser~ we should ~softly~ inform people to get a browser with native support if they want a high quality video playback experience. The cortado applet is awesome ... but startup time of the java vm is painful compared

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Dale
Also should be noted a simple patch for oggHandler to output video and use the mv_embed library is in the works see: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18869 you can see it in action a few places like http://metavid.org/wiki/File:FolgersCoffe_512kb.1496.ogv Also note my ~soft~ push

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/7 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org: Michael Dale wrote: I think if the playback system is java in ~any browser~ we should ~softly~ inform people to get a browser with native support if they want a high quality video playback experience. The cortado applet is awesome ... but startup

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote: [snip] I don't really have apple machine handy to test quality of user experience in OSX safari with xiph-qt. But if that is on-par with Firefox native support we should probably link to the component install instructions

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure slower and slower

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:35 PM, William Allen Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: Some may not think that this site is critical, or valuable, or whatever. That's a horrible strawman argument. Some simply think that the amount of damage that can be caused by hijacking a non-admin