Re: [widgets] ITS in Widgets

2010-03-01 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 Feb 2010, at 18:11, Marcos Caceres wrote: Dear i18n core, I'm writing on behalf of the Web Apps WG about the possibility of conducting a joint teleconference to discuss some issues with the ITS [1]

Fwd: Information about latest specs for language tagging

2010-03-01 Thread Arthur Barstow
Editors, All - FYI, some information from the I18N group re normative reference for language tags. Begin forwarded message: From: ext Richard Ishida ish...@w3.org Date: March 1, 2010 9:53:20 AM EST Subject: Information about latest specs for language tagging It seems that a number of people

Re: [widgets] dir and span elements

2010-03-01 Thread Scott Wilson
Hi Marcos, On 26 Feb 2010, at 17:44, Marcos Caceres wrote: Hi i18n WG, I've added the dir attribute and span elements to the Widgets PC Specification, as well as a bunch of examples (which are wrong, so I would really appreciate some help with these!). The dir attribute is specified here:

RE: [widgets] dir and span elements

2010-03-01 Thread Phillips, Addison
Hi Scott, One reason to make 'dir' available on higher-level elements is that 'dir', like 'xml:lang', has scope. It is often useful to specify a base directionality for an entire document or block of elements rather than having to repeat it over-and-over on each affected element. I can agree

Re: [widgets] dir and span elements

2010-03-01 Thread Scott Wilson
On 1 Mar 2010, at 17:58, Phillips, Addison wrote: Hi Scott, One reason to make 'dir' available on higher-level elements is that 'dir', like 'xml:lang', has scope. It is often useful to specify a base directionality for an entire document or block of elements rather than having to repeat

Re: [IndexedDB] Promises (WAS: Seeking pre-LCWD comments for Indexed Database API; deadline February 2)

2010-03-01 Thread Jeremy Orlow
Thanks for the pointers. I'm actually pretty sold on the general idea of promises, and my intuition is that there won't be a very big resource penalty for using an API like this rather than callbacks or what's currently specced. At the same time, it seems as though there isn't much of a standard

RE: [widgets] dir and span elements

2010-03-01 Thread Phillips, Addison
Thanks Addison - and yes, I think this makes a lot of sense for a content-style spec like HTML, however as the Widgets PC is a configuration document most of which is IRIs, integers and so on rather than text content its less of a clear case. No, I understand and don't disagree. However,

Re: [IndexedDB] Lots of small nits and clarifying questions

2010-03-01 Thread Jeremy Orlow
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Nikunj Mehta nik...@o-micron.com wrote: On Feb 28, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: Another nit: as far as I can tell, all of the common parts of the interfaces are named Foo, the synchronous API portion is FooSync, and the async API portion is