[whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Hi guys, why does finding a number in text [1] insist on . as a decimal seperator, when , is also very commonly used? [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#steps cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 12, 2006, at 14:11, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: why does finding a number in text [1] insist on . as a decimal seperator, when , is also very commonly used? I think the format should be kept simple (and potentially politically incorrect), because the human-readability is only a

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:23 +0100, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why does finding a number in text [1] insist on . as a decimal seperator, when , is also very commonly used? I think the format should be kept simple (and potentially politically incorrect), because the

[whatwg] Reminder: XTech 2007 proposals due by December 15

2006-12-12 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
The theme for XTech 2007 (15-18 May 2007 in Paris) is The Ubiquitous Web, and proposals are due by December 15 (this Friday). http://xtech.expectnation.com/event/1/public/cfp/1 A list of the tracks and suggested topics is here: http://xtech.expectnation.com/event/1/public/content/tracks

[whatwg] Editorial: implement the ... object - interface

2006-12-12 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, Section 2.1 Documenet has a note: This specification requires that implementations also implement some version of the Window object specification, so all HTMLDocument objects also implement the DocumentWindow object and thus the DocumentView object. I think the last two object should

[whatwg] in cell should handle comments

2006-12-12 Thread Anne van Kesteren
I don't see why comments have to be processed as if they were in body. They should just be appended to the current node. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/ http://www.opera.com/

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 11 déc. 2006 à 21:25, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Michel Fortin wrote: div profile=http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-profile; class=vcard a class=url fn href=http://tantek.com/;Tantek Çelik/a div class=orgTechnorati/div /div Given that nobody does the

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: I think it would help to have a rationale behind each decision or at least showing the different solution which have been proposed. A bit like wikipedia when an article is put online, there is an equilibrium showing the two points of view or more if

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread Martin Atkins
Mike Schinkel wrote: But you are assuming there is a downside to them for calling it foo-name vs. just name. There isn't; developers use conventions all the time. And if you read my proposal clearly, the prefix is only needed on a top-level element or to disambiguate. I'm not sure if you

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 12, 2006, at 15:36, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:23 +0100, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why does finding a number in text [1] insist on . as a decimal seperator, when , is also very commonly used? I think the format should be kept simple (and

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 11, 2006, at 23:42, James Graham wrote: Those people who really are just using class names as site-specific style hooks must face the possibility that someone will register their opaque classname with some unexpected semantics or restrictions on its use and, suddenly, find their

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree that it would be interesting. I don't have the time to set something like this up, sadly. However, if you are willing to help, I would definitely be open to chatting on IRC to explain various design decisions which you could then document on the

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: Here's another suggestion: in the future, when you make desicions and have the reasons for the desicions at hand (e.g., in IRC), then you could paste them as comments in the spec. I already do this for things where the explanations are brief

Re: [whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

2006-12-12 Thread George Staikos
On 11-Dec-06, at 8:02 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Your use of the term microformat seems very loose. A microformat isn't just anything that uses keywords in HTML's extension attributes; a microformat is a format that has gone through the very rigorous process of research, design, and public

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:51:32 +0530, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12, 2006, at 15:36, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:23 +0100, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why does finding a number in text [1] insist on . as a decimal seperator, when , is also

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 13, 2006, at 08:32, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: How can this be dealt with without making the parsing dependent on lang and requiring the UAs to implement all-encompassing CLDR- aware number parsing? It can't. But why bother making a standard that so clearly fails to work in