Re: [whatwg] embed and object

2009-07-15 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Thomas Broyer wrote: Though, now that HTML5 introduces video and audio, I wonder if object couldn't be equivalent to those when type of the resource is some video or sound... object doesn't expose the video or audio

Re: [whatwg] embed and object

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Thomas Broyer wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Thomas Broyer wrote: Though, now that HTML5 introduces video and audio, I wonder if object couldn't be equivalent to those when type of the resource is some video or

Re: [whatwg] One document or two?

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: I don't think alternative style sheets are evil; in fact, they seem to be quite within the architecture of the Web. Surely you don't think that, e.g., GMail is evil for having the same

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r3416 - [] (0) Define that document.bgcolor et al don't reflect for frameset.

2009-07-15 Thread Simon Pieters
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:51:52 +0200, wha...@whatwg.org wrote: Author: ianh Date: 2009-07-15 01:51:50 -0700 (Wed, 15 Jul 2009) New Revision: 3416 Modified: index source Log: [] (0) Define that document.bgcolor et al don't reflect for frameset. Modified: source

[whatwg] listing element

2009-07-15 Thread Bruce Lawson
Seems to be a listing element in 11.2.2 Display types http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html#the-css-user-agent-style-sheet-and-presentational-hints What's that? -- Hang loose and stay groovy, Bruce Lawson Web Evangelist www.opera.com (work)

Re: [whatwg] listing element

2009-07-15 Thread Edward O'Connor
Seems to be a listing element in 11.2.2 Display types  http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html#the-css-user-agent-style-sheet-and-presentational-hints What's that? It's an historical element that you shouldn't use. See

Re: [whatwg] Plus Signs in Signed Integers

2009-07-15 Thread Justin Lebar
What does IE do in these two examples? It appears that IE8 has the following behavior: ol start=+4 start = 4 ol start=H2SO4 start = 1 Test at http://stanford.edu/~jlebar/moz/list.html -Justin On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Jonas Sickingjo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009

[whatwg] Drag and drop - keyboard support

2009-07-15 Thread Remy Sharp
Hi, I've been running quite a few tests with the Drag and Drop API, and more recently I was looking at creating an accessible demo of DnD. Plugging ARIA support wasn't a problem, but keyboard support was a no goer. I tried triggering the dragstart event from the keyboard - which was

[whatwg] Access the Response Headers for the Current Document

2009-07-15 Thread Joseph Pecoraro
It seems like an oversight that Javascript can read response headers off of XHR but not for the current document. So in order to find out the headers for the current document you would need to make another request, refetching the current page, to find that out [1]. Use Cases: Any that

Re: [whatwg] Adding canonical to the list of allowed link types

2009-07-15 Thread Bil Corry
James Ide wrote on 7/13/2009 10:05 PM: Currently rel=canonical ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html) is not in the allowed set of link types listed at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#linkTypes . Looking back through archived

Re: [whatwg] Rel and META values

2009-07-15 Thread Bil Corry
Jeremy Keith wrote on 7/7/2009 5:32 AM: Meanwhile, back on the Rel values wiki page... http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RelExtensions Can anyone help with either of my questions: 1. Should I change all of the values derived from XFN from proposal to accepted as they seem to fit this criteria?

Re: [whatwg] Access the Response Headers for the Current Document

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Enright
Is it possible that the usage of HTTP to obtain a document for rendering and to obtain a document for XHR would differ sufficiently that the HTTP headers would differ? On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Joseph Pecoraro joepec...@gmail.comwrote: It seems like an oversight that Javascript can read

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 08:35 +0200 schrieb Oldřich Vetešník: Dne Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:52:22 +0200 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com napsal/-a: Indeed, unless browsers let us style legend any way we want (let's say like span element), people won't use it (in figures) because it

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskoppnils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Where is legend element styling lacking currently ? The element can't be styled in either Firefox 3.5 or recent WebKit because, according to my testing, it simply doesn't exist in the DOM.

[whatwg] Spec comments, sections 1-2

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
In 2.4.4.1: If position is not past the end of input, return to the top of the step labeled loop in the overall algorithm (that's the step within which these substeps find themselves). Why not just go to step 9? In any event this is inconsistent with 2.4.4.2, which says If position is not past

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskoppnils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Where is legend element styling lacking currently ? The element can't be styled in either Firefox 3.5 or

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused by this - what exact FF build did you test in?  When I try it in the current public 3.5, I get legend autowrapping itself in a fieldset.

Re: [whatwg] Drag and drop - keyboard support

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Remy Sharp wrote: I've been running quite a few tests with the Drag and Drop API, and more recently I was looking at creating an accessible demo of DnD. Plugging ARIA support wasn't a problem, but keyboard support was a no goer. I tried triggering the dragstart

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on video accessibility

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote: A flying thought: why not thinking also to a further option for embedding everything in a sort of all-in-one html page generated on the fly when downloading, making of it a global container for video and text to be consumed by UAs

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on video accessibility

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: 6. Timed text stored in a separate file, which is then fetched and parsed by the Web page, and which is then rendered by the Web page. For case 6, while it works for deaf people, we actually create an accessibility nightmare for blind people

[whatwg] Questions on error handling in web workers

2009-07-15 Thread Jian Li
I have a couple questions regarding error handling in HTML 5 workers. In the spec, it says Whenever a runtime script error occurs in one of the worker's scripts, if the error did not occur while handling a previous script error, the user agent must report the error using the WorkerGlobalScope

[whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Remco
A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video would also be used with audio. Now that agreement on a codec for video is out of the question, Vorbis can again be considered as a baseline codec for

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Adam Shannon
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video would also be used with audio. Now that agreement on a codec for video is out of

Re: [whatwg] Questions on error handling in web workers

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Jian Li wrote: I have a couple questions regarding error handling in HTML 5 workers. In the spec, it says Whenever a runtime script error occurs in one of the worker's scripts, if the error did not occur while handling a previous script error, the user agent must

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Remco wrote: A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video would also be used with audio. Now that agreement on a codec for video is out of the question, Vorbis can

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/16 Adam Shannon ashannon1...@gmail.com: It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. Hardware limitations or patent limitations? Either seems ill-matched to evidence-based reasoning. What was Apple's issue with Vorbis audio? I'd like to hear from

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Remco
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Adam Shannonashannon1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: A few years ago, Vorbis as a baseline codec for audio was dismissed, because it was expected that the audio codec agreed upon to be used with video

[whatwg] Clickjacking and CSRF

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
There have been a number of discussions about clickjacking, X-Frame-Options, and other proposals. Nobody I've spoken to seems especially happy with X-Frame-Options, and none of the other proposals have yet gotten serious traction. I have therefore not added anything of this nature to the

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Masataka Yakura
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused by this - what exact FF build did you test in?  When I try it in the current public 3.5, I get legend autowrapping itself in a

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Remco wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: Given the problem we had with the video codec, I would like to request that those of you interested in getting a standard audio codec do so by directly working with the browser vendors to

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread イアンフェッティ
Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec - Do you have data to back up this assertion? I am not an expert here, I had the naïve assumption that AAC was better given that major devices (e.g. iPod) use this format over Vorbis. I would love to see some data (other than some studies from 2005 on some

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Adam Shannonashannon1...@gmail.com wrote: This was from an email that Ian posted, I do not know if it is directly from Apple.  I am just posting it as reference, you will have to ask Ian to the source/creditability of the statement. Apple refuses to implement

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Remco
2009/7/16 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com: Vorbis is the best lossy audio codec - Do you have data to back up this assertion? I am not an expert here, I had the naïve assumption that AAC was better given that major devices (e.g. iPod) use this format over Vorbis. I would love to see

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Double
2009/7/16 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com: Widely adopted ... in portable media players? Really? iPod? Zune? Almost every media player I've purchased from the local electronics store here in NZ has Vorbis support. Many of them even support Flac. The notable exception is Apple products.

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/16 Remco remc...@gmail.com: Cowon/iAudio, iRiver, LG, Samsung, SanDisk, Creative, Google. Those are a few of the companies that support Vorbis: http://wiki.xiph.org/PortablePlayers Also everything using the Actions S1 MP3 chipset - almost *all* Chinese MP3/MP4 players. Basically,

Re: [whatwg] Captions, Subtitles and the Video Element

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Greg Millam wrote: Here is my proposal: [...] I think this proposal is a good direction to go in. However, I think it is still too early to put this in HTML5, and based on the quality of implementations so far, it will probably still be too early by the time HTML5 goes

Re: [whatwg] scope of link type license

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Mittwoch, den 03.06.2009, 22:56 + schrieb Ian Hickson: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: I am unsure on what scope the current document should have in subsection 5.11.3.9 (Link type license) of the spec and how it functions (or should play) together with

Re: [whatwg] Make Vorbis a baseline codec for audio

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 19:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Shannon: It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware limitations. As if. I somehow recall that a few years ago, a Linux Distribution on Ipod did Vorbis (and Doom, incidentally - that was the original reason for me to

Re: [whatwg] Clickjacking and CSRF

2009-07-15 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: There have been a number of discussions about clickjacking, X-Frame-Options, and other proposals. Nobody I've spoken to seems especially happy with X-Frame-Options, and none of the other proposals have yet gotten serious

Re: [whatwg] scope of link type license

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 03.06.2009, 22:56 + schrieb Ian Hickson: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: I am unsure on what scope the current document should have in subsection 5.11.3.9 (Link type license) of the spec and how it

Re: [whatwg] hasFeature() When Only 1 Syntax is Supported

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 14:46 +0200 schrieb Simon Pieters: Gecko, WebKit and Opera return true for XHTML/2.0. Who in the real world actually checks for that ? Wasn't XHTML 2.0 dead in the snow for some time now ? Cheers -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net

Re: [whatwg] Clickjacking and CSRF

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jonas Sickingjo...@sicking.cc wrote: Note that Content Security Policies[1] can be used to deal with clickjacking. So far we've gotten a lot of positive feedback to CSP and are in progress of implementing it in firefox. So it's a possible solution to this. Is

Re: [whatwg] Clickjacking and CSRF

2009-07-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeremy Orlowjor...@chromium.org wrote: Didn't Ian, 2 messages back, suggest that vendors experiment and bring their results back to the table at a later date?  Or has CSP never been discussed here? I haven't seen it discussed here, but maybe it has been and I

Re: [whatwg] scope of link type license

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Donnerstag, den 16.07.2009, 01:36 + schrieb Ian Hickson: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: Creative Commons suggests using 'about=' in RDFa with 'rel=license' http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa#Content_discovery It is an example of RDFa and HTML semantics clashing

Re: [whatwg] scope of link type license

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: http://daten.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/src/cc-license-markup/generator2.xhtml Wow, sweet! Aside from english language support, have I missed something obvious building this license thingy ? The first image I tried was this one:

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5 video tag questions

2009-07-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiakm...@apple.com wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: We can do

Re: [whatwg] scope of link type license

2009-07-15 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Donnerstag, den 16.07.2009, 04:17 + schrieb Ian Hickson: The first image I tried was this one: http://hixie.ch/resources/images/astrophy/200 ...which didn't work, but I see now that it is because I was lacking an extension on the filename. Well, checking the MIME type seemed

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Masataka Yakura wrote: I'm confused by this - what exact FF build did you test in? When I try it in the current public 3.5, I get legend autowrapping itself in a fieldset.

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

2009-07-15 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On the note of legend styling, currently a legend-in-fieldset isn't handled by the standard CSS renderer *at all* in FF, last I heard More precisely it's handled as having a special position value that you can't override, more or less, and that position value forces

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on video accessibility

2009-07-15 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi Ian, Great to see the new efforts to move the subtitle/caption/karaoke issues forward! I actually have a contract with Mozilla starting this month to help solve this, so I am more than grateful that you have proposed some ideas in this space. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Ian