Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types [was:trailing slash]

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Schinkel
Karl Dubost wrote: Give the possibility that the textarea of a form to trigger an editor, (A kind of setenv $EDITOR editorname) (potentially wysiwyg). and/or implement a real wysiwyg editor for forms in browsers (which sounds a bit silly when you really think about it) There will be less

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/4, Ian Hickson: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: What I mean is that being syndication feed is not a property of a relationship, it's a property of one end of the relationship (the resource the link starts from or points to); so it has nothing to do with the rel= attribute.

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:55:32 +0200, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: I've been having a lot of trouble following this discussion, because I can't work out what it is that is being asked for. There seem to be multiple discussions going on, and it isn't clear to me that everybody really

Re: [whatwg] markup as authored in practice

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Schinkel
I suspect the others you mention are similar. I don't ever remember using angle brackets on Blogger, but it's been a while. Point of note, Typepad has an Allow limited HTML option, no markdown. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Schinkel
Henri Sivonen wrote: At this point, it is important to realize that pro-XHTML advocacy Who are the pro-XHTML advocates; those one who want divergence, or those who want HTML5 to interoperate with XHTML as much as possible? This reasoning is then applied to XHTML served as text/html. This

Re: [whatwg] Authoring tools (was Graceful Degradation and MimeTypes)

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Schinkel
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Any technology to be widely accepted shall establish good set of motivations. Ideally new technology shall bring benefits to all actors or parties involved. Groups involved in acceptance of, say, new version of HTML on the Web are: 1) web designers, 2) UA

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Schinkel
Ian Hickson wrote: I've been having a lot of trouble following this discussion Are there other requests? What are they? 1.) Minimize the changes *required* for existing documents to validate as HTML5 2.) Provide strategies that make transitionality possible, and provide incentives for moving

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:55:32 +0100, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Possible Request D: We want HTML-style graceful error handling for XML content. This is out of scope of the HTML5 specification. Speak to the XML guys. XML currently requires draconian error handling and has no defined

Re: [whatwg] markup as authored in practice

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Schinkel
Lachlan Hunt wrote: (IE's disastrous XML Data Islands and Custom Tags provide sufficient evidence of that.) Why are XML Data Islands disasterous? http://www.w3.org/mid/[EMAIL PROTECTED] In that email you wrote: My point is that the whole idea of embedding XML in

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Mike Schinkel wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: I'll name the difference of XHTML_all and XHTML_compatible as XHTML_incompatible. Lachlan gave examples that indicate that XHTML_incompatible is not empty. I'm sorry but may I please ask for a reference? I unfortunately don't know where to find that

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 3 déc. 2006 à 18:49, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: What I mean is that being syndication feed is not a property of a relationship, it's a property of one end of the relationship (the resource the link starts from or points to); so it has nothing to do

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Ian Hickson wrote: You should request removal of the section. It is just a non-normative discussion of implications of the parsing algorithm despite the claim that extra restrictions are being defined and the misuse of RFC2119 keywords. As the thread shows, such discussion is unlikely to be

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Sam Ruby
Ian Hickson wrote: I've been having a lot of trouble following this discussion, because I can't work out what it is that is being asked for. There seem to be multiple discussions going on, and it isn't clear to me that everybody really knows what they are arguing for or against. I've changed

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Ian Hickson wrote: * Possible Request A: We want a way to add proprietary markup to HTML documents, and have them be usable by text/html browsers. This won't work, because the browsers won't support that proprietary markup. This has nothing to do with the specs. (The same problem exists in

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote: Secondly, anyone who actually tried to use an SGML parser to handle HTML rapidly hit a wall since most HTML documents were not even close to actually conformant to the SGML spec or the HTML DTD. Exactly. And the *exact same

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Ian Hickson wrote: What is it about XML that you like, that you don't get with HTML, that makes you request that we make HTML more like XML? I'm not sure which HTML you're talking about here, but 1. A reliable, practical tool chain including XSLT 2. Extensibility. I want to embed the

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Ian Hickson wrote: In the Web Apps 1.0 world, an HTTP message whose headers say text/html is an HTML document, regardless of what sequence of bytes the body of the message actually say. An HTTP message whose headers say text/xml, or use some other XML MIME type, is an XML document. It's the

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Mike Schinkel wrote: Use XHTML, send it with an HTML MIME type, and be happy. No! Why not? What's wrong with doing that? Well, it's impossible. If you _think_ you're using XHTML, but you process it with an HTML processor (e.g. by sending it as

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Ian Hickson wrote: Consider that essentially every page generated by Blogger, Moveable Type or WordPress is not hand authored. Actually, all those _are_ hand authored. They all use templates that were very carefully written by HTML authors by hand. Almost every page at sites like

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread James Graham
Elliotte Harold wrote: That means I have to send text/html to browsers (because that's the only thing they understand) and let my clients ignore that hint. No. As I understand it, the full chain of events should look like this: [Internal data model in server] |

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
James Graham wrote: As I understand it, the full chain of events should look like this: [Internal data model in server] | | HTML 5 Serializer | | {Network} | | HTML 5

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Sam Ruby
James Graham wrote: Elliotte Harold wrote: That means I have to send text/html to browsers (because that's the only thing they understand) and let my clients ignore that hint. No. As I understand it, the full chain of events should look like this: [Internal data model in server]

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Mike Schinkel wrote: Hmm. I believe the http standard states that clients are not suppose to override a content-type given by a server. For example, a web page showing a script virus shouldn't be identified by the client as a script and executed; the client should instead just display it as a

Re: [whatwg] markup as authored in practice

2006-12-04 Thread Elliotte Harold
Mike Schinkel wrote: Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: People who hand edit can handle some simple well-formedness rules. I think that is wishful thinking, unless we deliberately want to limit the number of people who can contribute on the web. For a long time we not so deliberately did limit

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread James Graham
Sam Ruby wrote: James Graham wrote: [Internal data model in server] | | HTML 5 Serializer | | {Network} | | HTML 5 Parser | |

[whatwg] extensions (was: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5)

2006-12-04 Thread Robert Sayre
On 12/4/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I must point out that WHATWG thought processes seems to regard XML syntax as inseparable, for no real reason. In mind, a allowing a trailing slash (for example) does not imply allowing CDATA and all the rest. Currently, there wouldn't

Re: [whatwg] Authoring tools (was Graceful Degradation and MimeTypes)

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 4 déc. 2006 à 6:14, Mike Schinkel a écrit : It does matter. It is not just one of the important things, it is THE important thing. Having two divergent HTMLs will create problems for a vast number of people and will significantly reduce efficiencies for anyone that has to deal with it.

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 4 déc. 2006 à 2:55, Ian Hickson a écrit : I've been having a lot of trouble following this discussion, because I can't work out what it is that is being asked for. There seem to be multiple discussions going on, and it isn't clear to me that everybody really knows what they are arguing for

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:10:18 +0100, Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I suggested xml:lang before, but that was when I thought it was parsed in HTML. Now I think a more clever approach would be to allow html:lang to validate in XHTML, because XHTML already mandates that

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 4 déc. 2006 à 11:14, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : For the record. There's no such thing as a lang attribute in the HTML namespace. Except perhaps in some schema's the HTML WG at the W3C is producing but those can safely be ignored. Indeed, it's the lang attribute with no namespace I

Re: [whatwg] Allow trailing slash in always-empty HTML5 elements?

2006-12-04 Thread Shadow2531
On 12/4/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shadow2531: Sounds like you are in agreement. But can I ask you to summarized what you'd propose? Not sure if I can summarize, but I can be more specific by example. Example browser preferences: (Default value is first value) [Markup

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:10:18 +0200, Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Le 4 déc. 2006 à 6:10, Mihai Sucan a écrit : However, in the same spirit, a middle way for those who want XMLiness in HTML, would be to allow the xmlns:?.* attribute, xml:base, xml:id, and xml:lang. Yet, define

Re: [whatwg] PaceEntryMediatype

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Thomas Broyer wrote: There's no need to fetch every link if you base your assumptions on the type= attribute (and *only* the type= attribute, not the combination with any special rel= attribute value). If you don't use the type= attribute on links, you'll have many

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 4 déc. 2006 à 12:30, Mihai Sucan a écrit : html lang=fr xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; head titleSans titre/title /head body pBonjour à tous!/p p lang=roBună ziua tuturor!/p pimg src=merci.png alt=Merci! id=mon-image //p /body /html Nice example Mihai. To reformulate my previous

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Martin Atkins
Sam Ruby wrote: [snip] HTML5 can do one better. Instead of handling presentational MathML as a special case, this support can be generalized. When a non-HTML element is encountered inside a HTML document, the parser could make one additional check: does this attribute have a xmlns attribute

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
[I unintentionally sent my previous message off-list. Sorry about that. Am moving this back to the list again. As there's nothing personal in it, I assume that's OK.] At 18:37 + UTC, on 2006-12-04, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: [...] [smiley to

[whatwg] Sanctity of MIME types

2006-12-04 Thread Sam Ruby
Here's a random half dozen examples, picked to show a bit of diversity: http://beta.versiontracker.com/mac/osx/home-edu/updates.rss http://city.piao.com.cn/rss.asp?85 http://feuerwehr-melle-de.server13031.isdg.de/index.php?id=199 http://hesten.innit.no/hru/rss.php?START=0STOP=3

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1: trailing slash and atheism)

2006-12-04 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 4, 2006, at 07:48, Mike Schinkel wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: C, Java, Python, Perl, C# and Ruby attract developers who are capable of creating libraries. These languages already have library ecosystems in place. Forgive me for being so blunt, but that is an incredibly naïve view.

Re: [whatwg] Sanctity of MIME types

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Sam Ruby wrote: Independent of what the specs say *MUST* happen, I'd like people to bring up one or more browsers with a URL from this list, and see if the browser asked them if they wanted to subscribe. Subscribe is not a normal feature associated with text/html,

Re: [whatwg] Provding Better Tools (was: Re: 9.1.2.1: trailing slash and atheism)

2006-12-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/3, Mike Schinkel: What about Perl, Ruby, Javascript, Cold Fusion, JSP (Java), ASP.NET (C#/VB.NET), and ASP (VBScript/ActiveX)? (Did I miss any of significance?) I've just started (today) a .NET implementation (in C#): a parser as an XmlReader subclass and writers as XmlWriter and

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Michel Fortin wrote: Le 4 déc. 2006 à 6:10, Mihai Sucan a écrit : However, in the same spirit, a middle way for those who want XMLiness in HTML, would be to allow the xmlns:?.* attribute, xml:base, xml:id, and xml:lang. Yet, define them as meaningless. Just for validation purposes, just for

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Dec 4, 2006, at 22:34, Ian Hickson wrote: The fact that my weblog and my planet are usefully viewable on Lynx is a counter example that is meaningful to me. My point is that if you used HTML5 instead, you would have _more_ features

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Ian Hickson wrote: It also doesn't work that well. I'd be interested to see what happened in IE if the SVG used the SVG 1.2 textArea feature. Or if it used the SVG text and tSpan features. Case in point: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/01/The-White-Pebble

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Robert Sayre wrote: On 12/4/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It certainly isn't something that it would make sense to encourage. Is this different than what IE does with canvas? Yes, because with canvas the feature has been carefully designed to have

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Sam Ruby wrote: James Graham wrote: As I understand it, the full chain of events should look like this: [Internal data model in server] | | HTML 5 Serializer | | {Network} | |

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types [was: trailing slash]

2006-12-04 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:07 +0900, Karl Dubost wrote: Give the possibility that the textarea of a form to trigger an editor, (A kind of setenv $EDITOR editorname)(potentially wysiwyg). and/or implement a real wysiwyg editor for forms in browsers (which sounds a bit silly when you really

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types [was: trailing slash]

2006-12-04 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 5 déc. 2006 à 08:27, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis a écrit : On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:07 +0900, Karl Dubost wrote: Give the possibility that the textarea of a form to trigger an editor, (A kind of setenv $EDITOR editorname)(potentially wysiwyg). and/or implement a real wysiwyg editor for forms in

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 20:46 + UTC, on 2006-12-04, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: [...] [ESP engines] Surely you're not saying that HTML5 will define error handling for every possible case a UA may run into? Yes. In fact, not only will it define this, it already _does_

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing Still, I don't see how this makes it not guesswork. Well, if you want to call well-defined interoperable error handling guesswork, then sure. I guess that's just terminology. The

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 4 déc. 2006 à 14:33, Martin Atkins a écrit : Likewise, the content model of the script element is hardcoded into the parser; there's no way to discover it from the syntax alone. (I'll admit that there's no similar construct to the content model of script in XML, however, so this

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 4 déc. 2006 à 17:19, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : I agree, but how are xml:lang, xml:base and xml:id any more meaningless in HTML than xmlns? In XHTML you can avoid using xml:base (by not specifying a base) and xml:id (by using id). You can't avoid xmlns. That's why I think xmlns comes

Re: [whatwg] The parsing section doesn't require HTML in uppercase (doctype)

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: Revision 410: parser section says 'HTML' must be uppercase. We can discuss if that should change (mail the list), but the syntax section needs to be consistent, at least. Where does it say that? What I find is this (in the DOCTYPE name state):

[whatwg] HTTP/filesystem World Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Karl Dubost
There are two worlds and that is why the mime-type had always been a difficult story. Le 4 déc. 2006 à 16:55, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: The Yellow Screen of Death is about as annoying as you can get. I really don't understand how

Re: [whatwg] HTTP/filesystem World Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: 2. When people edit files locally on their filesystem (outside HTTP world) and they put them online through FTP (outside HTTP world), to finally reach a folder controlled by a Web server (inside HTTP World), troubles are starting. There aren't

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Ian Hickson wrote: How do you propose to organise it instead? The XML, HTML, and CSS specifications quite clearly show that organising it so that the syntax and the parsing rules are defined in the same prose leads to serious deficiences (HTML forgot to define parsing altogether, CSS failed

Re: [whatwg] The parsing section doesn't require HTML in uppercase (doctype)

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, �istein E. Andersen wrote: First, the parsing rules seem to give the token HTML for any string [Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]. Uh, oops. Yes, you're right. Ok, back to case-insensitive. (That does seem better, anyway.) Secondly, is this comparison supposed to be done when the

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: [...] section 9.2 defines syntax and parsing rules together. No, it doesn't. It doesn't define the syntax at all. It defines how to parse the syntax, and what to report as a syntax error, but that section has no normative criteria that apply to

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: I may be able to make additional suggestions once someone showed me an example of HTML syntax where a 'p' element has a 'pre' child element. The pre element is allowed to occur where structured inline-level elements are allowed.

Re: [whatwg] HTTP/filesystem World Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 5 déc. 2006 à 11:38, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: 2. When people edit files locally on their filesystem (outside HTTP world) and they put them online through FTP (outside HTTP world), to finally reach a folder controlled by a Web server (inside HTTP

[whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 5 déc. 2006 à 05:34, Ian Hickson a écrit : The other issue, supporting other vocabularies in HTML5, is an open issue, but it will be addressed in due course. We need more implementation experience first, and there are far more pressing problems. slightly related. What about foreign

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Julian Reschke
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Robert Sayre wrote: On 12/4/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It certainly isn't something that it would make sense to encourage. Is this different than what IE does with canvas? Yes, because with canvas the feature has been carefully designed

Re: [whatwg] HTTP/filesystem World Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 5 déc. 2006 à 11:38, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: 2. When people edit files locally on their filesystem (outside HTTP world) and they put them online through FTP (outside HTTP world), to finally reach a

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson schrieb: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Robert Sayre wrote: On 12/4/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It certainly isn't something that it would make sense to encourage. Is this different than what IE does with canvas? Yes,

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elias Torres
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 5 déc. 2006 à 05:34, Ian Hickson a écrit : The other issue, supporting other vocabularies in HTML5, is an open issue, but it will be addressed in due course. We need more implementation experience first, and there are far more

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 5 déc. 2006 à 15:09, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 5 déc. 2006 à 05:34, Ian Hickson a écrit : The other issue, supporting other vocabularies in HTML5, is an open issue, but it will be addressed in due course. We need more implementation experience first,

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Elias Torres
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: I work at IBM/Lotus and are in the process of shipping a series of internal components used by IBM employees as Lotus products. We have tried using microformats as an extension mechanism for HTML but found several limitations

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Ian Hickson wrote: No, it doesn't. It doesn't define the syntax at all. It defines how to parse the syntax, and what to report as a syntax error, but that section has no normative criteria that apply to documents. That is quite irrelevant. The definition of the parsing algorithm along with

Re: [whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Elias Torres wrote: In one of the products, we need two things: one to specify our own piece of structure data (call it microformat, call it RDFa data). Could you give an example of the kind of data you're talking about and how you'd use it? Obviously I don't mean to ask

Re: [whatwg] Content Model Restrictions on tabletr in HTML

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Ian Hickson wrote: No, it doesn't. It doesn't define the syntax at all. It defines how to parse the syntax, and what to report as a syntax error, but that section has no normative criteria that apply to documents. That is quite irrelevant. I