[whatwg] aspect-ratio CSS rule?

2010-05-04 Thread Julien Cayzac
It would be very sweet if you could actually enforce an element's aspect ratio using CSS, so you wouldn't have to rely on hacks in the line of http://lab.veille.jp/aspectratio/ anymore. This is especially useful when designing elastic interfaces that display videos. Example: Right column at http:/

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 5/4/10 10:56 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: >> >> What I would like to offer is a way to control some amount of the >> sign-in/sign-out >> experience while improving the security, by at least giving an in-page >> way to trigger sign-in / sign-out (

Re: [whatwg] onshow event

2010-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Perry Smith wrote: > > I see in the html5 spec an 'onshow' event but no text describing when > the 'show' event is triggered. It's part of the context menu mechanism: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#context-menus > It would be wonderful if an

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 5/4/10 10:56 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: What I would like to offer is a way to control some amount of the sign-in/sign-out experience while improving the security, by at least giving an in-page way to trigger sign-in / sign-out (the actual mechanism of collecting the credentials and performing th

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: >> >> The principal difference or change is that as far as I know, Mozilla's >> account manager offers only an out-of-page experience for managing >> your logged-in status. > > I don't th

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: > The principal difference or change is that as far as I know, Mozilla's > account manager offers only an out-of-page experience for managing > your logged-in status. I don't think this is true. Sites can report user login status even if the us

[whatwg] onshow event

2010-05-04 Thread Perry Smith
I see in the html5 spec an 'onshow' event but no text describing when the 'show' event is triggered. I've poked at FF 3.5 and Opera and can not get it to fire. But I may be completely confused on when it should fire. It would be wonderful if an element had an event that would fire when that p

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Eitan Adler >> wrote: >>> Use cases: >>> 1) A screen reader that sees a form with a type=username and a >>> password field. The screen reader could just

Re: [whatwg] Ping + Ping-prefix meta element.

2010-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 26.04.2010 22:17, Roger Hågensen wrote: > > ... > > Oh, and could someone on the HTML5 list poke some of the guys over there > > and > > see if a ping attribute for the body tag in a similar vein could be > > considered? > > ... > > If by "HTML5 list"

Re: [whatwg] why double downloading of ogg videos ?

2010-05-04 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Short question: is it intentional that the partial GETs do not use an > If-Match: request header? > No. I suppose we should, but honestly it's never come up. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Use cases: >> 1) A screen reader that sees a form with a type=username and a >> password field. The screen reader could just ask "Log in to this site? >> [y/n]?". No further context would b

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Use cases: > 1) A screen reader that sees a form with a type=username and a > password field. The screen reader could just ask "Log in to this site? > [y/n]?". No further context would be needed. > 2) UAs can more easily discover login forms an

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Eitan Adler
> I don't think type=username is good solution, but I agree that autofill needs > help. Sites often use e-mail address as login. There would be conflict > between type=email and type=username. I could imagine one two solutions here. 1) Change type="username" to role="username" which makes more s

Re: [whatwg] Do we really need to introduce a element for giving access to webcams and mikes?

2010-05-04 Thread Tran, Dzung D
The was added by Ian Hickson in response to some of the work in the W3C DAP working group. The original intent was to make sure the user are actively grant permission to a particular device camera or microphone instead of just click okay since some malicious site can just capture and post it on

Re: [whatwg] why double downloading of ogg videos ?

2010-05-04 Thread Julian Reschke
On 04.05.2010 16:16, Julian Reschke wrote: Rob, related question: do you do the partial GET only for getting access to metadata, or are you also using it for seeking in the video? (As opposed to downloading it once into the media cache, and then use that content throughout?) Best regards, Julia

Re: [whatwg] why double downloading of ogg videos ?

2010-05-04 Thread Julian Reschke
On 17.04.2010 09:36, Robert O'Callahan wrote: This is an implementation issue rather than a spec issue. It's basically just because of the way the Firefox network cache works. When we play an Ogg video we generally don't download the data in a single continuous HTTP GET; if the server supports by

Re: [whatwg] Ping + Ping-prefix meta element.

2010-05-04 Thread Julian Reschke
On 26.04.2010 22:17, Roger Hågensen wrote: ... Oh, and could someone on the HTML5 list poke some of the guys over there and see if a ping attribute for the body tag in a similar vein could be considered? ... If by "HTML5 list" you happen to mean the mailing list of the W3C HTML WG...: the WG d

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On 4 May 2010, at 09:07, timeless wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> 3) Currently autofill for usernames looks for something like >> id="username" or name="username". However on certain websites this >> fails. > > Why would a site which doesn't cooperate with today's

[whatwg] WebSockets cookies

2010-05-04 Thread Simon Pieters
establish a WebSocket connection: [[ 15. If the client has any cookies that would be relevant to a resource accessed over HTTP, if secure is false, or HTTPS, if it is true, on host host, port port, with resource name as the path (and possibly query parameters), then add to fields any HTTP he

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Dennis
On 4/05/2010, at 9:07 AM, timeless wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> 3) Currently autofill for usernames looks for something like >> id="username" or name="username". However on certain websites this >> fails. > > Why would a site which doesn't cooperate with today

Re: [whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread timeless
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > 3) Currently autofill for usernames looks for something like > id="username" or name="username". However on certain websites this > fails. Why would a site which doesn't cooperate with today's autofill features choose to cooperate with your pr

Re: [whatwg] Real-time networking in web applications and games

2010-05-04 Thread Erik Möller
On Mon, 03 May 2010 23:59:19 +0200, Mark Frohnmayer wrote: Hey all, In continuation of the effort to make browsers a home for real-time peer to peer applications and games without a plugin, I've done a bit of digging on the spec. Currently the spec contains section 4.11.6.2 (Peer-to-peer co

[whatwg] RFC:

2010-05-04 Thread Eitan Adler
Use cases: 1) A screen reader that sees a form with a type=username and a password field. The screen reader could just ask "Log in to this site? [y/n]?". No further context would be needed. 2) UAs can more easily discover login forms and offer things such as Firefox's Account Manager [1] or a "reme