Re: [whatwg] metadata attribute for media

2013-01-16 Thread Ralph Giles
On 12-12-11 5:23 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: > That said, I'm not convinced this is an issue given the primary > use-case, which is pretty much that web content wants to do more > sophisticated things with the metadata than the user-agent's > standardized parsing allows. If one cares to that extent, an

Re: [whatwg] Forms-related feedback

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:48:43 -, Bronislav Klučka wrote: 3/ Way for styling native controls are pseudo-classes, the fact, that we do not have those yet is hardly reason for abandoning it. We would have no progress at all if we had dropped every technology that is not perfect for every

Re: [whatwg] Forms-related feedback

2013-01-16 Thread Bronislav Klučka
On 16.1.2013 14:16, Bruce Lawson wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:01:14 -, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: Strongly agree. I think any arguments that sites will refuse to use the native controls because they don't match the site's theme are countered by the observation that most sites using JS-libr

Re: [whatwg] Forms-related feedback

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:01:14 -, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: Strongly agree. I think any arguments that sites will refuse to use the native controls because they don't match the site's theme are countered by the observation that most sites using JS-library equivalents today still don't theme t

Re: [whatwg] Forms-related feedback

2013-01-16 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Bronislav Klučka wrote: > On 16.1.2013 8:23, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> Since the use cases are rare, is it better to force browser vendors to >> develop code to implement it, in their own ways, than to let various >> software developers set up libraries for it? Si

[whatwg] TZ database

2013-01-16 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2013-01-08 01:47, Ian Hickson wrote: The next best choice would be to have datetime-with-timezone but unfortunately (1) Official database for all timezones does not exist (2) Official timezone names (or labels) do not exist (3) Timezones are subject to future political decisions The problems

Re: [whatwg] Forms-related feedback

2013-01-16 Thread Bronislav Klučka
On 16.1.2013 8:23, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Since the use cases are rare, is it better to force browser vendors to develop code to implement it, in their own ways, than to let various software developers set up libraries for it? Since the browser implementations would, with practical certaint