Re: [whatwg] A plea to Hixie to adopt

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Stewart Brodie schrieb am Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:33:43 +: > Steve Faulkner wrote: > > > Stewart wrote: > > > > It doesn't necessarily. I've come across pages that expect the > > head to be displayed too. e.g. tests at > > http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/css3/like > > http://meyerweb.com/

Re: [whatwg] use of article to markup comments

2013-02-17 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp < n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > "Bruce Lawson" schrieb am Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:30:18 > -: > > > In short, why should the spec suggest any specific method of marking > > up comments? > > As someone who is interested in semantics a

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-02-17 Thread Jonathan Garbee
I'll actually follow up my last post with this. Is there any scenario where something can be done with these changes, or any one of them, that today isn't possible with the current specifications? I simply don't see one myself. If you could give a scenario, then could you possibly make an example

Re: [whatwg] Assigning media resources represented as DOM objects to a media element

2013-02-17 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Robert O'Callahan > wrote: > > Even if you get past that, you still have the problem that revoked URLs >> are useless. It's impossible to do something equivalent to video2.src = >> video1.src (which works to

Re: [whatwg] Assigning media resources represented as DOM objects to a media element

2013-02-17 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Robert O'Callahan > wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Jonas Sicking > wrote: > >> > >> Also, for what it's worth, I'm holding out hope that we can change > >> createObjectURL to be autorevoking b

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-02-17 Thread Jonathan Garbee
Usecase 1: This can already be covered by having the bot/engine look for an irc protocol link on the page. Usecase 2 part one: Operating systems already do this. They see an irc:// protocol and ask what to open it with or use their already assigned option. No need for a browser to take this over.

Re: [whatwg] scoped style sheets and @-rules

2013-02-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:39 AM, L. David Baron wrote: > But I think it's a large amount of extra implementation complexity > to honor @-rules whose purpose is to build global dictionaries (in > particular, @keyframes and @font-face), and I suspect the end result > of honoring them would yield te

Re: [whatwg] metadata attribute for media

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Ralph Giles schrieb am Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:23:38 -0800: > On 12-12-11 4:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > […] > > > I don't think we should have an open-ended API without fixed names, > > because that is a recipe for an interoperability disaster. > > I agree it would have interoperability issues.

Re: [whatwg] use of article to markup comments

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Adrian Testa-Avila schrieb am Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:31:06 -0800: > So, maybe a better question is why should the spec suggest only one > specific method? Answer: As someone consuming HTML and XML content, I find it extremely unhelpful if equivalent semantics are expressed in mand different ways.

Re: [whatwg] use of article to markup comments

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
"Bruce Lawson" schrieb am Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:30:18 -: > In short, why should the spec suggest any specific method of marking > up comments? As someone who is interested in semantics and tired of scraping content and applying scrappy heuristics: If it is clear that an within an represents

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-02-17 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Gryllida schrieb am Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:41:50 +1030: > […] > > It is rather common to have a channel for a website, not just one > page. There are some exceptions of sites which have subsites with a > channel for each. A {IRC, XMPP} channel is "an official chat medium > aiming to serve as an offic