Re: [whatwg] [WF2] form submission protocols and methods

2005-12-09 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I think a lot of section 5.6 should be removed from the spec. Most of section 5.6 consists of defining behaviour to ensure interoperability between implementations, since if the spec doesn't list

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] form submission protocols and methods

2005-12-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > I think a lot of section 5.6 should be removed from the spec. Most of section 5.6 consists of defining behaviour to ensure interoperability between implementations, since if the spec doesn't list what happens then implementations either have to r

[whatwg] [WF2] form submission protocols and methods

2005-12-09 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
I think a lot of section 5.6 should be removed from the spec. In general the reasons are as follows: - functionality that isn't really needed or is redundant with existing features - features that are clearly insecure in web documents and may be a risk even in local files in a browser (th

Re: [whatwg] Better model for avoiding history spam from pushState?

2005-12-09 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:13 PM, L. David Baron wrote: In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2005Nov/0017 , I wrote a comment on a WHATWG spec, http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#scs-session , which I quote here: On Monday 2005-11-21 07:44 -0800, Kenny wrote: [...] My

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest.status on connection timeout

2005-12-09 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Nov 30, 2005, at 2:12 AM, Jim Ley wrote: On 11/30/05, Boris Zbarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What should XMLHttpRequest.status return on connection timeout? Ian and I were talking about this, and it seems like "502" is a good response code here... See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > How does all this menus stuff relate to the LINK element? I'm getting > the feeling that this might kill the best of what the LINK element has > to offer: ease of navigation through recognisability. has had ten years to prove itself. It failed.

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-09 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
How does all this menus stuff relate to the LINK element? I'm getting the feeling that this might kill the best of what the LINK element has to offer: ease of navigation through recognisability. Most websites use "menus" for navigation. Every website presents this differently, even though often se

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] form content/DOM attribute

2005-12-09 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
>> Can it be more explicitly said that the "form" content attribute does not have a >> DOM attribute equivalent. > > It does. In fact it has two (|form|, defined in DOM1 HTML, and |forms|, > new in WF2). I hope we'll get away with that change, but it may cause problems in IE if authors use getAttr