[whatwg] createEvent() in Web Workers?

2009-11-26 Thread Simon Pieters
There's ErrorEvent.initErrorEvent, and dispatchEvent is exposed in workers, but there's no createEvent (because there's no document). Are there use cases for sending events in a worker? Should we expose createEvent somewhere? Should we remove initErrorEvent? -- Simon Pieters Opera

[whatwg] Use cases for the time element

2009-11-26 Thread Jeremy Keith
In the section for the time element, the spec states: This element is intended as a way to encode modern dates and times in a machine-readable way so that user agents can offer to add them to the user's calendar.

[whatwg] Canvas pixel manipulation and performance

2009-11-26 Thread Jason Oster
Hello Group, I've been using canvas to draw pixel art (NES/SNES game screens and sprites) similar to what an emulator would do. Doing this kind of drawing requires direct access to the pixel buffer. My problem with the canvas spec (as it is now) is that it tends to artificially bounds pixel

[whatwg] Possible bugs : Microdata Itemscope on link/ and meta/

2009-11-26 Thread Tim van Oostrom
Hi, I made a forumpost : http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=4176, concerning a possible microdata specification bug and a bug in the james.html5.org microdata extractor. Comes down to link/ and meta/ elements possibly being unfit for use with the itemscope attribute. I made an example

Re: [whatwg] Canvas pixel manipulation and performance

2009-11-26 Thread Oliver Hunt
On Nov 26, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Jason Oster wrote: Hello Group, I've been using canvas to draw pixel art (NES/SNES game screens and sprites) similar to what an emulator would do. Doing this kind of drawing requires direct access to the pixel buffer. My problem with the canvas spec (as

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] A content in img elements for ASCII art

2009-11-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:19 AM, David Bruant bru...@enseirb-matmeca.fr wrote: = I take this argument as a pro argument for two reasons : - img are void elements in every single browser, so, if this status changes in HTML5, they can all change the behavior of img element at the same time