Why wouldn'tinput type=file be usable for this? You should be able to
drag any file to that, just like you can type in a URL in Windows in an
open file dialog box.
input type=file would be usable.
Were this implemented:
When a user through selection, click+drag or manual entry of a URL
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:40:26 +0200, Chris Pearce ch...@pearce.org.nz
wrote:
On 2/08/2010 9:17 p.m., Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Chris Pearce wrote:
There's a race condition in the media load algorithm. When the resource
selection algorithm begins, it sets a task to complete the
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:58 +0200, Markus Ernst wrote:
Am 02.08.2010 20:54 schrieb Ashley Sheridan:
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 17:19 +0200, Markus Ernst wrote:
- search engines should generally ignore text in the alt attribute, but
evaluate the title attribute instead
Rationale:
Section 4.8.1.1.9 describes how alternative text for content images
should be written:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-1.html#a-key-part-of-the-content
Then, there is a general guideline about writing alternative texts in
section 4.8.1.1.12: A corollary to this is that the alt
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:18 AM, James May wha...@fowlsmurf.net wrote:
On Windows at least, when put a URL in the open dialog the shell
downloads it then passes a temporary file. The browser never gets the
source URL - so it'd be difficult without re-implementing the dialog
(undesirable). Plus
On 7/25/10 8:57 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
There's also the related question of what browsers should do with input
typed into the URL field. Other than establishing that these rules may be
different between the URL field and URLs present in content, I'm not sure
this is amenable to spec.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:21 AM, bjartur svartma...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/25/10 8:57 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
There's also the related question of what browsers should do with input
typed into the URL field. Other than establishing that these rules may be
different between the URL field and
On 8/3/10 4:27 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
For the record, here's how I interpreted await a stable state:
The only state that is not stable is a running script.
I don't think that's true; for example you could be in an unstable state
if you're in the middle of the parser inserting some
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
I also randomly picked a Wikipedia page (Potato) and looked at some of th=
e
links there. The only link that matched that pattern on the whole page wa=
s
in the footer that only gets displayed in the print media:
=C2=A0
Is it easier in terms of implementation issues or general consensus?
-Nicholas
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Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
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From: Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote:
On Aug 1, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:
Summary: The new 'sandbox' feature on iframe should be considered
for removal. It needs a security review, it will be a lot of work to
implement properly, and may not
On Thu, 6 May 2010, juuso_ht...@tele3d.net wrote:
meta=encrypt pubkey=ABABAEFEF2626EFEFEF
pubtool=EC256-AES|RSA2048-AES passsalt=no|domainname
auth=verisign
Please try to fully decrypt the above meta-encrypt tag and *see* how the
browser-server communication could utilize it. (HINT:
Summary: the new summary element is very generic sounding but has a
very special purpose (only allowed inside details). It would be
helpful if we made it more generic, in particular allow use of
summary inside article body (and perhaps section) to provide
general summary text semantics (e.g. this
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Schalk Neethling wrote:
I absolutely love the fact that browsers will have certain validation
baked in like email addresses etc. With that, is there currently a way
to, or plans to add a way, where the way the browser displays these
errors can be styled with CSS?
To a
On Sat, 8 May 2010, James Salsman wrote:
I propose including the specification at
http://www.w3.org/TR/device-upload in HTML5, provided that it is updated
to include Speex, Ogg Vorbis, and Ogg Theora.
What problem would this solve? As far as I can tell, nothing stops the
user agent from
Summary: the new summary element is very generic sounding but has a
very special purpose (only allowed inside details). It would be
helpful if we made it more generic, in particular allow use of
summary inside article body (and perhaps section) to provide
general summary text semantics (e.g.
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Perry Smith wrote:
In HTML5 6.3.1 Relaxing The Same Origin Restriction [1] bullet 3, sub
bullet 3 there is a clause that says that if the domain is reduced down
to something that is on the Public Suffix List, the new value is
rejected. That phrase caused me to pause.
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Brett Zamir wrote:
Although it seems a lot of attention has been given to ensuring
backward-compatibility in HTML5, and while a kind of namespacing has
been considered in use of data- attributes (over expando properties), it
appears to my limited observations that
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Perry Smith wrote:
I see places that explicitly state that the same object is returned on
some operations. For example, the element.style has that clause.
I have not found in either html5 or the DOM documentation that is
referenced an explicit statement to this
On Aug 2, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
A while ago questions came up in the WebGL WG about using a canvas with
multiple rendering contexts, and synchronization issues that arise
there. Here's our suggested change to getContext.
On Aug 2, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dirk Pranke wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dirk Pranke wrote:
Why would a user ever want anyone
On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Chris Marrin wrote:
On Aug 2, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
A while ago questions came up in the WebGL WG about using a canvas with
multiple rendering contexts, and synchronization issues that arise
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Chris Marrin wrote:
On Aug 2, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
A while ago questions came up in the WebGL WG about using a canvas
with multiple rendering contexts, and synchronization issues that
arise there.
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Richard Clark wrote:
We recently received an email from one of our readers on html5doctor.com
that went like this:
Hi, in HTML 4.0 Strict XHTML 1.0 Strict, text inside a blockquote
element is required to be nested inside another block-level element,
e.g. p. In
On 3/08/2010 9:20 a.m., Ian Hickson wrote:
The synchronous section would run as soon as the task span the event loop.
Spinning the event loop is defined essentially as being equivalent to
breaking the original task in two, one that does everything up to spinning
the event loop, and one that
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Chris Pearce wrote:
So the task spinning the event loop has run up to the point of spinning
the event loop, then we run the synchronous section, and then the task
which was spinning the event loop will resume after its goal is met at
some later time?
Sounds right.
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Darcy Murphy wrote (on help@):
Recently I came up with the idea of using a ui tag in order to
semantically separate my app's content from it's UI chrome. I could use
form but then even clicking a simple button submits the form's data
when what I'm creating is more of a
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
4.10.18 Association of controls and forms explains the link between
forms and form-associated elements (and the form attribute). However,
I've the feeling the specifications go far over what should be done and
force the implementor how to do it.
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Alexandre Thiel wrote:
I was wondering if HTML5 Offline mode and file upload can work together ?
I can't find any reference in the online draft which covers only server
resource caching.
Let's imagine you're writing some kind of data editor that works in offline
mode,
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Jim Jewett wrote:
Evil Lawyer: So, when did you stop beating your wife?
Defendant: Never!
Evil Lawyer and Defendant aren't pronounced. Their meanings (and
silence) are deduced from English conventions about punctuation. I
would prefer a semantic
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Kühn Wolfgang wrote:
I was wondering if there are any precompiled Java language bindings for HTML5?
There's nothing official; hopefully the links provided by other people on
this thread are helpful though.
As it is, i can't figure package names, for example for the
On 4/08/2010 11:32 a.m., Ian Hickson wrote:
In the case of a tasks which invokes an algorithm which has a
synchronous section, and then pauses the event loop (such calling
window.alert()), we should not run the synchronous section until the
event loop pause has completed?
Currently, yeah. We
On Mon, 17 May 2010, David Flanagan wrote:
Section 6.5.9 History Traversal defines popstate and hashchange events
that are fired on the Window object. It specifies that these events
*must* bubble. Where should they bubble to? What does it mean to bubble
up from a Window? These events
On Tue, 18 May 2010, bjartur wrote:
First of all I think we should use a rel=embed href=uri-ref
instead of source.
What problem would this solve?
Isn't interactive content not important enaugh? What about text? What if
one want's to link to interactive maps? s...@src? a class=embed..
On Fri, 21 May 2010, David Weitzman wrote:
There are various approaches to using image sprites with HTML and CSS,
but at the end of the day they are all essentially hacks. A solution
that would be simpler than any existing approach would be to introduce
new attributes for img to specify x
We at Mozilla are hoping to ship HTML resource packages in Firefox 4,
and we wanted to get the WhatWG's feedback on the feature.
For the impatient, the spec is here:
http://people.mozilla.org/~jlebar/respkg/
and the bug (complete with builds you can try and some preliminary
performance
On Sat, 22 May 2010, L. David Baron wrote:
The rules for parsing a legacy color value in
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/common-microsyntaxes.html#rules-for-parsing-a-legacy-color-value
specify that CSS2 system colors should be accepted, and that they should
be
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Justin Lebar justin.le...@gmail.com wrote:
We at Mozilla are hoping to ship HTML resource packages in Firefox 4,
and we wanted to get the WhatWG's feedback on the feature.
For the impatient, the spec is here:
http://people.mozilla.org/~jlebar/respkg/
and
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
I'm wondering why the value and max IDL attributes have to reflect the
content attribute with zero as a default value instead of reflecting the
internal values used to calculate the position. Wouldn't that be easier
to know what is the internal
On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
WebKit on Mac responds to changes to the color Highlight by changing the
colour to the default blue the next time it resolves style (as far as I can
tell). Not exactly a success story. (Highlight is the only colour over which
the user seems to
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Darin Adler wrote:
On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
WebKit on Mac responds to changes to the color Highlight by changing
the colour to the default blue the next time it resolves style (as far
as I can tell). Not exactly a success story. (Highlight is
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2010, David Weitzman wrote:
There are various approaches to using image sprites with HTML and CSS,
but at the end of the day they are all essentially hacks. A solution
that would be simpler than any existing
This is and was a great idea. A few points/questions:
1) I think it would be nice to see explicit confirmation in the spec
that this works with offline caching.
2) Could data files such as .txt, .json, or .xml files be used as part
of such a package as well?
3) Can XMLHttpRequest be made
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Chris Marrin cmar...@apple.com wrote:
On Aug 2, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dirk Pranke wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On
On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Justin Lebar wrote:
We at Mozilla are hoping to ship HTML resource packages in Firefox 4,
and we wanted to get the WhatWG's feedback on the feature.
For the impatient, the spec is here:
http://people.mozilla.org/~jlebar/respkg/
and the bug (complete with
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