Re: [whatwg] HTML vs Plain Text in Notifications
Dmitry Titov wrote: ... The text-based box has following problems: - Not enough formatting capabilities even for simple cases (calendar appointment and mail notification). - No mechanism to update content (as in upload progress indicator scenario) - No way to add interactive features (snooze on calendar appointment) ... - It doesn't allow language-tagging. BR, Julian
Re: [whatwg] Generic Metadata Mechanisms (RDFa feedback summarywikipage)
The way Julian formulated it, it is hearsay, not evidence, with no statistical background. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:26 PM To: Ian Hickson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Manu Sporny Subject: Re: [whatwg] Generic Metadata Mechanisms (RDFa feedback summarywikipage) Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the that there *are* people using RDFa, eRDF, microformats and similar formats to markup their data, and that there are consumers (browser extensions, spiders) using it. So what *additional* evidence are you looking for? BR, Julian
Re: [whatwg] Scripted video query proposal
Perhaps another possibility would be something similar to the current navigagor.mimeTypes array (navigator.mediaMimeTypes?). Absolutely old-school, but perhaps makes sense, as the ability to display certain media types is mostly a property of the navigator/client, not as much a property of the media-element (all media elements would most likely return the same media types, indicating the property may be located elsewhere). Anyway, I welcome any scripted query support. All proposals on that topic are better than a dark age of poorly maintained black- and whitelists. Maik
[whatwg] List of differences between whatwg and w3c spec?
I notice there are specs for HTML5 dated today at: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ diff -u shows a lot of difference, but most are cosmetic. (I gather they're there because Hixie disagrees with some W3C pubrules but can't get them changed.) Is there any page that lists the substantive differences? Presumably the generation of the drafts is automated; is the source file for the drafts published?
Re: [whatwg] List of differences between whatwg and w3c spec?
diff -u shows a lot of difference, but most are cosmetic. (I gather they're there because Hixie disagrees with some W3C pubrules but can't get them changed.) Is there any page that lists the substantive differences? Presumably the generation of the drafts is automated; is the source file for the drafts published? http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/ HTH. Ted
Re: [whatwg] List of differences between whatwg and w3c spec?
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Aaron Swartz wrote: I notice there are specs for HTML5 dated today at: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ diff -u shows a lot of difference, but most are cosmetic. (I gather they're there because Hixie disagrees with some W3C pubrules but can't get them changed.) Is there any page that lists the substantive differences? Presumably the generation of the drafts is automated; is the source file for the drafts published? They're identical from the page of contents down to the bottom. (Literally, they're generated from the same file.) The only difference is in the header, the abstract, and the status of this document section. This is in fact stated in the status of this document section in both copies (they both say The two specifications are identical from the table of contents onwards). HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
[whatwg] Repetition templates missing
In the 11 September 2008 edition, section 1.6 of the HTML5 WD (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#structure) links to Repetition Templates at #repetition but there is no element with that ID. In a recent interview (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=718) Ian Hickson says For example, the repetition templates proposal is almost certainly going to be dropped. Can you please say why? I was quite fond of this proposal and we're using it on OpenLibrary.org, where it's been a great boon to our development.
Re: [whatwg] Repetition templates missing
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Aaron Swartz wrote: In a recent interview (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=718) Ian Hickson says For example, the repetition templates proposal is almost certainly going to be dropped. Can you please say why? It solves about 5% of the use cases. There are dozens of other solutions that cover overlapping areas, but all of them just handle 5% of the real needs. People have so many varied needs that we are better off providing an infrastructure for templating than providing a single solution. The data templates stuff in HTML5 is another example of a solution in the same space. Personally I prefer it, but it doesn't really matter -- it handles just as many use cases, some that repetition blocks don't, some that they do, and it just does it differently. I was quite fond of this proposal and we're using it on OpenLibrary.org, where it's been a great boon to our development. Nothing stops you from continuing to use it -- indeed, if you are using it now, then that demonstrates that it is possible to do it without UA support. :-) With the new data-* attributes, we can allow a thousand templated flowers to bloom and we don't need to honour any of them with the special spec annointing oil (as it were). If there is anything the browsers could provide to make implementing things like this easier, let us know and I can add them to the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
