Re: [whatwg] Treat like an image

2008-08-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
ddailey wrote: The Opera build with real-time SVG filters applied to video, made me think that HTML and SVG ought to be sharing the filter business rather than being mired down with the troglodytic re-invention of wheel business, but then who's to say that wheels need to be round anyhow? You

Re: [whatwg] Treat like an image

2008-08-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
João Eiras wrote: Hi ! Not a long time ago, we saw an Opera build which had support. What was really really cool about it was that was pretty much supported like any other image format so we could apply filtering and other complex stuff from svg like in this example. http://people.opera.com/ho

Re: [whatwg] Treat like an image

2008-08-11 Thread ddailey
I'm thinking that you're thinking like an author. I like it! Lots of fun and you're right to point out the possibility for problems. Allowing video to be turned off (just like browsers used to -- and probably still do -- allow for images to be turned off, when the hardware or user isn't up fo

[whatwg] Treat like an image

2008-08-11 Thread João Eiras
Hi ! Not a long time ago, we saw an Opera build which had support. What was really really cool about it was that was pretty much supported like any other image format so we could apply filtering and other complex stuff from svg like in this example. http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/video/sv

Re: [whatwg] meter and document conformance

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Nov 18, 2006, at 14:32, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > Is a document non-conforming if it contains a meter element that does not > > have a value attribute and the algorithm http://whatwg.org/ > > specs/web-apps/current-work/#steps fails to return either

Re: [whatwg] meter and document conformance

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Is a document non-conforming if it contains a meter element that does > not have a value attribute and the algorithm http://whatwg.org/specs/ > web-apps/current-work/#steps fails to return either number1 and > denominator or number1 and number2? > >

Re: [whatwg] Find a number with "." as the input

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > The definition of "find a number" ( http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/ > current-work/#find-a ) may cause a string containing a single U+002E > FULL STOP to be fed to the algorithm entitled "rules for parsing > floating point number values" ( > http:

Re: [whatwg] VIDEO tag height/width best fit

2008-08-11 Thread João Eiras
Hi ! In this regard, should be handled like . While handling an image, if you specify a width and leave height as auto, the UA will resize the height to keep the aspect ratio, because the UA known the images intrinsic dimensions. The same behavior happens if you specific height and leave w

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 : Misconceptions Documented

2008-08-11 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
I have considered inline response. I have two options: do it by hand (I am rather busy) and do it for every reply (which makes business people angry). I am sorry for the inconvenience it causes. The item method on a collection when the argument passed is a string that cannot be coerced to an int

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 : Misconceptions Documented

2008-08-11 Thread Garrett Smith
On 8/11/08, Kristof Zelechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for taking the time to respond to some things I was writing about. I think these are important things that deserve attention, too. If it's not too much to ask, have you considered inline style response? http://en.wikiped

Re: [whatwg] WebWorkers vs. Threads

2008-08-11 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Guarding concurrent access to global variables is not enough if those variables hold references to objects because an object can end up in a logically inconsistent state if two threads try modifying its properties concurrently. The objects would have to be lockable to avoid corrupting global state

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 : Misconceptions Documented

2008-08-11 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Neither the expression 'form.elements.$name' nor its expanded form 'form.elements["$name"]' is supposed to be defined even if $name is an identifier of an embedded control. The correct way to address the control is 'form.elements("$name")', which is a shorthand notation for 'form.elements.item("$n

[whatwg] web development approach

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Mk
Dear web developer,   I need your help!   I am researching into how web developers choose a development approach.   It is pure research and not a front for a commercial organisation,  as such the whole survey looks very formal and it seems off putting to web developers.   It is 4 screens in length

Re: [whatwg] WebWorkers vs. Threads

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * each coroutine gets a real OS thread (if available). Coroutines in Lua are not operating system threads or processes. Coroutines are blocks of Lua code which are created within Lua, and have their own flow of control like thr

Re: [whatwg] WebWorkers vs. Threads

2008-08-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
Shannon wrote: Jonas Sicking wrote: Shannon wrote: I've been following the WebWorkers discussion for some time trying to make sense of the problems it is trying to solve. I am starting to come to the conclusion that it provides little not already provided by: setTimeout(mainThreadFunc,1) set