[whatwg] A comment to character encoding declaration

2008-03-03 Thread Jjgod Jiang
Hi, It's a comment to the character encoding declaration section of HTML 5 spec: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#character1 During the development of CJK information processing, many text encodings is just a strict subset of another one, for example, GB2312 is a subset of GBK, GBK is a subset

Re: [whatwg] several messages about the HTML syntax

2008-03-03 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 02-03-2008, N o godzinie 23:02 +, Ian Hickson pisze: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: Aha. I didn't think of testing attributes. Safari preserves CRs in attribute values, both real and NCRs. CRLF pairs, LFCR pairs, CRs and LFs cause a single linebreak in the

Re: [whatwg] The div element

2008-03-03 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:37 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze: Reading your description makes me think that you're more displeased with the hn/ elements than you are happy with the section/ element. I've never had issues promoting headers or moving content around, and I'm not clear

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-03-03 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:36 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze: I understand your reasoning for the aside/ element, perhaps this is another element that is suffering from the wrong name. Most of web developers have no idea what an aside is let alone when to use one. I know that acronym/

Re: [whatwg] Issues concerning the base element and xml:base

2008-03-03 Thread Krzysztof Żelechowski
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 17:12 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak pisze: On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: For example on a a href=..., does the user hovering the node count? If you display an absolute URI to the user at this time it should get resolved against the current

Re: [whatwg] several messages about the HTML syntax

2008-03-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: When I want to define a paragraph-style tool-tip, I am left with the following choice: either make the source code unreadable by making an excessively long line (this is also true for URI attributes but they are not expected to be readable)

Re: [whatwg] several messages about the HTML syntax

2008-03-03 Thread David Gerard
On 03/03/2008, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: When I want to define a paragraph-style tool-tip, I am left with the following choice: either make the source code unreadable by making an excessively long line (this is also true for

Re: [whatwg] Issues concerning the base element and xml:base

2008-03-03 Thread Jonas Sicking
Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 17:12 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak pisze: On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: For example on a a href=..., does the user hovering the node count? If you display an absolute URI to the user at this time it should get

Re: [whatwg] several messages about the HTML syntax

2008-03-03 Thread Jonas Sicking
David Gerard wrote: On 03/03/2008, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: When I want to define a paragraph-style tool-tip, I am left with the following choice: either make the source code unreadable by making an excessively long line

[whatwg] Usemap and ismap for canvas tag

2008-03-03 Thread Greg Houston
I would like to request that the canvas element get the same usemap and ismap properties that the img element has. It seems the canvas tag was designed primarily for fairly simple dynamic data visualizations, but even so, having some basic, built-in, intuitive methods for interacting with these

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-03-03 Thread Shannon
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:36 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze: Perhaps it would better be named callout/? Aside is customary in dialogue annotations, I have never seen any callout. Chris Call it note. It may sound crude but it's hard to mistake its meaning. Shannon

Re: [whatwg] several messages about the HTML syntax

2008-03-03 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:02:07 + (UTC), Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: Currently, unquoted attributes may start with a = [as in img alt==Foobar src='404'] This means that the notion of conformance fails to catch what is most likely an error: [...] To

Re: [whatwg] several messages about handling encodings in HTML

2008-03-03 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:21:20 + (UTC), Ian Hickson wrote: (I've made the characters not allowed in XML also not allowed in HTML, with the exception of some of the space characters which we need to have allowed for legacy reasons.) The C1 character U+0085 NEXT LINE (NEL) is also a Unicode

Re: [whatwg] Usemap and ismap for canvas tag

2008-03-03 Thread Robert O'Callahan
Wouldn't it make more sense just to use SVG? Rob -- He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the

Re: [whatwg] Usemap and ismap for canvas tag

2008-03-03 Thread Greg Houston
Wouldn't it make more sense just to use SVG? Dynamic interactive charts and graphs seem to fall into the gray area between what is more appropriate for canvas or SVG. canvas is designed for creating images dynamically in scripts. SVG focuses on pre-computed image documents, and is more complex

Re: [whatwg] Usemap and ismap for canvas tag

2008-03-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:40:52 +0900, Greg Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense just to use SVG? ... So canvas is tuned more for creating dynamic charts and graphs whereas SVG is better apt for static sprites and interface elements with the bonus that it can