[whatwg] Server-sent events feedback

2011-02-03 Thread Ian Hickson
to resolve URLs in the same way as > XMLHttpRequest. Does "first script" really make sense here? I also > wonder if "first script" is actually ever used for this. (Did not put > time in investigating that for now.) This should be fixed in the browsers, IMHO.

Re: [whatwg] Encrypted HTTP and related security concerns - make mixed content warnings accessible from JS?

2011-02-03 Thread Ian Hickson
his is indeed the kind of thing which CSP might fix in the medium-term future. If it turns out that CSP, or whatever CSP gets replaced by, doesn't solve this use case, then we should revisit it. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] The choice of script global object to use when the script element is moved

2011-02-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Sep 9, 2010, at 00:47, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> > >> When evaluating a parser-inserted script, there are three potential > >> script global objects to use: > >

[whatwg] Specs for window.atob() and window.btoa()

2011-02-01 Thread Ian Hickson
ndow.btoa(): > > http://aryeh.name/spec/base64.html > > These are functions supported by all browsers except IE, which do base64 > encoding and decoding. Awesome. I've updated the spec accordingly. > I also wrote a fairly complete test suite, at: > http://dvcs.w3.org

Re: [whatwg] Appcache feedback (various threads)

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Given that SxS manifests don't seem like they'd ever be something > > you'd want to make available to download standalone, and that if you > > were g

[whatwg] Appcache feedback

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
in entries > would be skipped (matching today's behavior). I'm not a fan of hardcoded URLs, as they fail in a number of scenarios (e.g. a server shared by different teams that trust each other but may have different needs). Before we discuss solutions, though, we should be clear what problem we're trying to solve. What is the security risk you are looking to mitigate? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Appcache feedback (various threads)

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > That's far too generic for servers to default to mapping *.manifest > > > to text/cache-manifest. For example, Windows uses *.manifest for > > > SxS as

Re: [whatwg] Appcache feedback (various threads)

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, David John Burrowes wrote: > > > > > > I can understand wanting to do things right, in terms of using > > > Content-Type for the file.

Re: [whatwg] Installable web apps

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
oth cases, there would also be an associated navigator API: > > void navigator.installApplication(); > bool navigator.isInstalled; I don't think that makes any sense. It's the Web. There's no "installation" step. You just run the app. There's nothing to

Re: [whatwg] Appcache feedback (various threads)

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Patrick Mueller wrote: > On 8/12/10 6:29 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > > > XML would be much too complex for what is needed. We could possibly > > > remove the media type check and

Re: [whatwg] structured clone algorithm should be defined for primitive values

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
the outer level one does not.) > > Browser implementations allow primitives such as strings to be passed to > History.pushState(), window.postMessage() and other methods that > reference the structured clone algorithm. > > I think you can fix this by changing "object" to

Re: [whatwg] Structured clones of Files

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
all, that's not currently meant to be allowed. This is intended to be up to the user. We should clarify this in the File API specs, though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] ArrayBuffer and the structured clone algorithm

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
n, e.g. Web Workers, Server-Sent Events, +, etc.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Web Storage, Editor's Draft 20 August 2010 - Request for enhancement

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
or a professor, possibly via e-mail. That's why I'd like > to have localStorage implemented in an e-mail compatible fashion. > Hopefully, the localStorage implementation would also be compatible with > dropboxes. It's not clear to me what you're aski

Re: [whatwg] Request for implementer feedback: granularity definitions for Selection.modify()

2011-01-30 Thread Ian Hickson
g as the behaviour is consistent, e.g. that the boundaries used for text-transform:capitalize match the boundaries used for word boundaries in Selection.modify(). This may need some coordination work so that the specs use terminology that is unambiguously referring to equivalent concepts, with

Re: [whatwg] Why is the feature "Web Storage" removed from HTML5 Spec?

2011-01-28 Thread Ian Hickson
up, the WHATWG one is now a superset of the W3C one, but is still just "HTML" things and not anything Web related. There's a separate WHATWG spec that contains everything still, including the HTML stuff and stuff like Web Storage: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cur

Re: [whatwg] Small consistency issue with HTML5 nav element examples

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Hickson
k a part of your page is "a section with navigation links", then you can use (but you aren't required to). For authors who have been writing HTML pages for a while, another way of putting it is "use whenever you would have used before". So long as you used class="

Re: [whatwg] Small consistency issue with HTML5 nav element examples

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Hickson
s of a site, such as the terms of service, > the home page, and a copyright page. The footer element alone is > sufficient for such cases, without a nav element." It doesn't say it's inappropriate, such that it's not necessary. It's still fine to use it

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Input Method Editor API

2011-01-08 Thread Ian Hickson
e). However, what's the use case for the page writing its own IME from scratch? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r5671 - [e] (0) expand colloquial abbreviations

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Hickson
menting the CSS 'unicode-bidi' property. > > + [CSS] > > s/should/could/ Thanks. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] question on @width and @height attributes on

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Hickson
k/complete/introduction.html#conformance-requirements-for-authors Indeed. On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > As long as the percent-values aren't deprecated... cause if they are, IE > behavior would be accurate, IMO. They're more than deprecated, they'

Re: [whatwg] Timeouts and monotonic vs clock time

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Hickson
ssue to consider here is what happens when the machine goes to > sleep, and then wakes up. This is a much more common scenario than the > user changing the system clock. The spec seems to handle this case (the timers aren't stopped by the system being suspended, but e.g. setIn

Re: [whatwg] Make radio button group suffering from being missing

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Hickson
son that would make the current behavior > more appropriate than the one described here. In the end I'll spec whatever gets implemented. What do other browser vendors feel about this? Should we make required="" on any one type=radio control affect the val

Re: [whatwg] Drag-and-drop feedback

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > On 11/1/2010 6:03 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > > > On 8/25/2010 2:02 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [whatwg] Consecutive hyphen-minus characters in comments/in ACE-strings of IDNs

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >  * Helping authors not write HTML markup that might be hard to convert to > >   XML, and helping authors avoid nesting comments accidentally, by > >   flagging "

Re: [whatwg] Consecutive hyphen-minus characters in comments/in ACE-strings of IDNs

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
ther more useful, but then I use "--" as long dashes all the time! When this was last studied, the weight of argument was on the stricter "disallow --" side of things, presumably. I'm open to changing this back; does anyone else have an opinion on this? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] without keyboard editing

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
, the question of optimizing the "color picker" > interface so that a human can choose "precisely" (modulo psy) a > predetermined color (in RGB, HSV, or CIELAB space) in the least amount > of time, has not, I would claim, yet been optimized. I think the optimal > solution would involve throttles in an intrinsically toroidal space. This is the kind of experimentation I hope we will see in browsers with things like type=number. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] PageTransitionEvent persisted data type

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Andrew Oakley wrote: > > Is there any reason that the PageTransitionEvent persisted attribute > (and corresponding argument to initPageTransitionEvent) is of type any > rather than boolean? Copypasta. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Allow Headings As Children of

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
to be a single line in the rendering, and so allowing elements that are intentionally separate "blocks" sends the wrong message. It would also be rather weird to have what is intended to be a disclosure widget be its own "section" in the document outline. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Specification of window.find()

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
. What are the use cases for this feature? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] onLoad event

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Diogo Resende wrote: > > Is there a way to know that a has been loaded (and processed)? > I'm more interested in CSS links than others but the process should be > the same. In my opinion it's a better way of loading stylesheets than > downloading using XmlHttpRequest and t

Re: [whatwg] Make "f...@bar.com, " a valid email address list

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Hickson
ble names that aren't too verbose.) This is defined in the part of the spec starting with "When the multiple attribute is specified on the element". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Make "f...@bar.com, " a valid email address list

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Sure, I would expect the way it is serialized for submission and for > > .value to be the same. I would not expect any whitespace there either. > > The way it is currently defined does not make much sense to me and > > seems to assume a particular UI. > > I filed a bug: > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11137 Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Browser inconsistencies in rendering and

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
font styles, leaving that up to the default binding.) We can change the spec here if there's a reason to do so, but as you say, I'd be surprised if there were interop needs here, so the simplest behaviour (nothing special) seems the best. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Pressure API?

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
e an > app that gave you a 1 minute warning on the need for an umbrella. > > I am not going to pass any judgement on how hip this would be, but those > are the uses I can see. I think we're some way away from having many users run background Web apps on the

Re: [whatwg] link.sizes and [PutForwards=value]

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
a DOMString for most purposes, but to allow methods to be invoked on it. (All the attributes that have [PutForwards] set also have a stringifier on their object's interface.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] textarea newline format - raw value vs. transformed value and setSelectionRange

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
e '\r' characters)? Yes. > If so, does that mean that setSelectionRange() should operate on the > raw, internal value (that just has '\n' for newlines in it normally), > but the 'value' getter still returns the transformed value with newlines > normalized

Re: [whatwg] Suggestion for CSS-RESET property in CSS3 ((tag: css3, html5, css-reset, idea))

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > I think, web developed should be done modular design approach. This is more or less what XBL is intended to do: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/xbl2/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8 -- Ian H

Re: [whatwg] Interaction between @multiple, @pattern and @list

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
is applied to each individual component of the value, > rather than the value as a whole. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Timed tracks: feedback compendium

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Hickson
et up a redirect but I flubbed the syntax and forgot to check it. Fixed. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] window.open question...

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Hickson
vigate" algorithm for details on what happens when a page loads, including when a new Window object is created: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#navigate Note in particular the exception listed under "creating a new Document object", which may be

Re: [whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
appear to be the end of the start tag but that do not intend to have the browser close the element immediately. For example, markup such as the following is sadly common: Hello world! I have therefore not changed the spec in response to this request. -- Ian Hickson U+1047

Re: [whatwg] Low Memory Event

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
a 100-character string in one browser it actually takes just 100 bytes, but on another browser it might take 1000. So not only would the information be unreliable, it would be insufficient to really make good judgements. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Why children of datalist elements are barred from constraint validation?

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
without any possible action from the user. > > If there is no specific use cases in mind I think we should just remove > that. It's so that you can use a in the (with the same s) for fallback in older UAs, without that having any effect on the form submission. --

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 - 7.4.2 Focus management

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
27;s onBlur -> OL's onFocus; > - In Firefox (can't remeber version), the only event triggered is LI's > onFocus; I don't really know what it would mean to focus the elements if the was already focused, really. I mean, everything that's editable has to

Re: [whatwg] Submit controls should be barred from constraint validation in favor of a new pseudo-class

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
e marked > invalid but that might change before the final release if there is an > agreement that :-moz-submit-invalid is a better way to fulfill the need. > > As a side note for web authors on this list, :-moz-submit-invalid > currently has a default style on Firefox but th

Re: [whatwg] :invalid

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
hey will be presented with data that's already entered by someone else > and their job is to clean up the data. In fact I see the new Form API to > be a very good candidate for this use case. Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] input element list attribute and filtering suggestions

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
st -- for this kind of thing we'd probably want to use a direct API, we wouldn't want to have scripts have to poke at the DOM in real time. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Workers: what should happen when exceeding worker limit?

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Hickson
t use timeouts to test whether the worker started -- that way you'll do the worker-less fallback behaviour regardless of whether the timeout fired because workers are just slow on the user's computer or because there are no more worker slots available. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
t now incorrect) spelling, spelling > intentionally done wrong for better rhyming (yes, people did this in the > past) and unintentional errors from the book semantically. I think it is > important to note where those errors are done intentional (by me,

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
e.g. if the user printed the page, you'd want to provide data in the printer's native resolution rather than the screen's. That's something that you'd want to do regardless of JS being enabled or not, so it can't be a scripting API -- it has to be an

Re: [whatwg] Question about gradient stops in canvas and parsing as CSS colors

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
d in terms of validity rather than in terms of successful parsing, and added a paragraph and example clarifying this, along with cross-references to this paragraph where relevant. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] and invalid values

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > [list=""/ should show invalid values.] Consider for example: > > > > > > Good use case. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.

Re: [whatwg] input element's value should not be sanitized during parsing

2010-12-28 Thread Ian Hickson
lso, it would mean that the following two pieces of code behaves differently: > > inp = document.createElement("input"); > inp.setAttribute("value", "foo\nbar"); > inp.setAttribute("type", "hidden"); > > and > > in

Re: [whatwg] fieldset disabled and first legend

2010-12-28 Thread Ian Hickson
ing a non-normative paragraph > explaining the edge case would be nice. Otherwise, making the > specification more clear would be required. The paragraph you quote _is_ the non-normative paragraph. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Mechanism to find available events

2010-12-28 Thread Ian Hickson
ow support particular event. > Or what are the alternate events available, so that we can refer some > document or do some test to find how it can be used. > So I wish we had above methods available. What do you mean by "supports an event"? You can dispatch any event y

Re: [whatwg] Form element invalid message

2010-12-28 Thread Ian Hickson
;invalid" event implement an > interface with a function like setCustomErrorMessage(in DOMString > message). This string would then be displayed by the UA in its UI > wherever it displays validation error messages. > > I actually think that the customerrormessage attribute that

Re: [whatwg] File Upload Progress Event (Upload Progress)

2010-12-28 Thread Ian Hickson
ines of code here. > I don't expect anything frankly, I only hope :). But I'm not hoping for > priority of implementations, but rather that it be added to the spec. Adding it to the spec doesn't do anything if it doesn't get added to imple

Re: [whatwg] Canvas element image scaling

2010-12-27 Thread Ian Hickson
kool' graphics where > pixellation is actually desired, not smoothing. It's on the list of things to look at in future versions. In the meantime, browsers are experimenting in this area. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Relation between HTML 5 and ECMAScript

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > How does HTML 5 relate to ECMAScript HTML and JavaScript are both actively-maintained Web technologies. > how does conformance with ECMA262 affect conformance with HTML 5? It doesn't particularly. HTH, -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Autoplaying media elements not in a document

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Hickson
omatic features browsing context flag set when the > Document was created". Yeah, this was not quite what the change was meant to be. Fixed to go back to the earlier behaviour, with the new restriction more appropriately phrased. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--.

Re: [whatwg] VIDEO Timeupdate event frequency.

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Hickson
leave timeupdate as it is, and fix > > this in the future? > > I think so. Another factor is that a lot of the video effects people > have been using canvas for can actually be done with SVG filters, which > can be GPU-accelerated and are compatible with asynchronous compositin

Re: [whatwg] Html 5 video element's poster attribute

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
does not replace > a currently playing resource with a new one without glitches. When you load > a new resource, you set the currentSrc to a new resource URL, then call > load() and it will reset the player controls to start at the beginning, it > will reset the currentTime to 0 and basical

Re: [whatwg] resource selection algorithm and NETWORK_NO_SOURCE

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
uld fire an 'emptied' event for each that > changed, which is kind of undesirable. Maybe the media element load > algorithm should only be invoked if src is set or changed on a > that has no previous sibling elements? What's the use case? Just set .src before you insert t

Re: [whatwg] Fullscreen feedback

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
would be appropriate for that spec. In case it is helpful to Anne, I've included below the feedback to which I did not include responses.) On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Mike Wilcox wrote: > On Aug 20, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > By CSSOM, I mean a separate specification, specif

Re: [whatwg] Video with MIME type application/octet-stream

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
ge of opinions regarding what the right behaviour is, implementations are still changing, and implementors often disagree with their own implementations at this stage. On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 8/31/10 3:36 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > You might say "Hey, but aren&

Re: [whatwg] Timestamp from video source in order to sync (e.g. expose OGG timestamp to javascript)

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Agreed. I've made the API clearly say that "duration" is the time at > > the end, even in the case where the start is not actually zero, to > >

Re: [whatwg] loading algorithms

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 8/2/10 5:20 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > Or does "stop the currently running task" in #spin-the-event-loop > > > imply a jump to step 2 of the algorithm under #processing-model2? > > > > Yes. >

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: add attributes etags & last-modified to element.

2010-12-08 Thread Ian Hickson
t the spec should say; if this turns out to be popular and effective, we should reconsider adding it to the language. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Which mechanisms does HTML5 have in place to combat XSS attacks?

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
ease don't hesitate to raise them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] :enabled and :disabled pseudo-classes should apply on fieldset elements

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
argue that is :enabled, but I don't think one would argue that is :enabled. Case in point, nobody argued that should match :enabled before we added the disabled="" attribute to it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Form controls disabled IDL attribute and disabled state

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
ny feature, we should ask what the use case is. On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Something like matchesSelector is an api on the element itself that does > what you want; do we really need another api for it? Boris and Jonas make strong arguments here, so I haven't change

Re: [whatwg] Partial HTML5 documents

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
he elements must be flow content", where the terms are from the syntax section of the HTML spec, except for "flow content", which is from the elements section. In practice of course exactly what's allowed where depends on what you put where, which is why the spec doesn't def

Re: [whatwg] Canvas API: What should happen if non-finite floats are used

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
the spec to match what the majority of implementations do in due course, if that changes. Currently it seems to be a bit of a mixed bag. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Descendents of source and track elements should be skipped when serializing HTML fragment (10.3)

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
aware of, but they get processed specially in the parser, and aren't considered "real" elements. (They are documented, though.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] reset algorithm doesn't seem to reset

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > It looks like the reset algorithm for input elements is considering all > types except the . Shouldn't "empty the list of > selected files" be added? It looks like this has been fixed. -- Ian Hi

Re: [whatwg] Please consider adding a couple more datetime types - type="year" and type="month-day"

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Christoph P�per wrote: > > I�m not sure, but I think it�s at your end that character encodings get > garbled. Yes, I am unfortunately using an encoding-impaired MUA. > Ian Hickson: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Christoph P�per wrote: > >> > >&

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest and HTML5

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:58:52 +0200, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > 2) Is there any reason we cannot also use this "no browsing context" > > > clause to define documen

Re: [whatwg] element feedback

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
y leap-frog each other, roughly in sync with implementations. This ensures that the whole platform doesn't ever get too far ahead of implementations, and it ensure that we don't go too far into the weeds with a bad idea before stopping. The remainder of this thread discussed the pros and cons of having localise times. This issue will be decided by the market one way or the other; it's not clear to me that we can make progress on it here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r5399 - [giow] (2) Define option.selected; make still get sel [...]

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
n > if the required attribute is present on select. Right, the label doesn't have to be present. Why would we require one? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 8/24/10 6:13 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > So basically, translating this to specese: > > > > Document objects on which you call open() have an "override reload" > > flag set and an initially empty source ca

Re: [whatwg] Have tabstrip / tab elements been discussed?

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
not a meaningful UI decision beyond the visual. That is, a user should not be worried that opening a different tab is going to change what happens. As such, it's always equivalent to just showing all the tab panels one after each other with a heading. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Allow Select SVG Elements In

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
ent, and one where it's considered metadata content, with appropriate restrictions on the latter. With such a set of definitions in place, the HTML spec's model would just work (it already refers to the content model of as just "metadata content", for instance). -- Ian Hi

Re: [whatwg] [br] element should not be a line break

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Christoph Päper wrote: > Ian Hickson: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Thomas Koetter wrote: > >> > >> What strikes me though is that according to the spec "The br element > >> represents a line break". A *line* break is presentational

Re: [whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for tags

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
the specs? (after 5 years of proposed status > it's kinda time to decide right?) There's work ongoing to decide exactly how the registry for rel="" values is going to work; I intend to wait until that is resolved and then letting the appropriate process/communit

Re: [whatwg] HTML6 Doctype

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
he multiple specs). But I > think the original question (and, at least, my response to that > question) was speaking of just the html spec, and revisions of it, > itself. Think about how HTML has been developed in the past 7 years. We've had only one

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r4949 - [giow] (0) The CSS rules need to do attribute value matching consistently across [...]

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:00:50 +0200, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:32:13 +0200, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > I've been working under the assu

Re: [whatwg] Should events be paused on detached iframes?

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
peration; for example GC can happen, even multiple times, during a > property get or set). That would be pretty broken behavior. The spec says that basically anything you can observe in the DOM is a strong reference, including e.g. frameElement. So there's no race condition here. On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Olli Pettay wrote: > > One thing not too clear in the "magic iframe" approach is that how > session history works; how is the session history from the iframe merged > to the new one, especially if the iframe moves to a new document. This is as well-defined in the spec as it is for the case of sibling iframes that aren't ungrafted, actually. > Another thing, which is more implementation depended problem, is that > how the plugin native widget reparenting works, in case the iframe uses > plugins. This is already a problem since you can move an around directly. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Clarification on canceling events

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
e.g. say that the default actions > should not occur, but propagation continues)? The verb "to cancel" seems to be the operative terminology used by the DOM3 Events specification for this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--..

Re: [whatwg] Clarifying the use and requirements of Data URL

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
That was for a different section, which no longer exists (and for which citing the RFC normatively was superfluous, since no normative conformance criteria from the RFC applied to that section). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] reflected enumerated attributes feedback

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
eneral has been in some flux and the implementations are all somewhat away from interoperable. On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> * marquee.direction > > > > What do browsers do for this one? > > See

[whatwg] Feedback on the Atom feed algorithm

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 17.08.2010 10:36, Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... > > The note is lower down. It reads: "Note: The above algorithm does not > > guarantee that the output will be a conforming Atom feed. In > > particular, if insufficien

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r5307 - [giow] (0) use vendor--feature instead of _vendor-feature since Apple engineers [...]

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
ollow any concrete policy. HTML uses pretty much every naming convention you can come up with _somewhere_. When adding new features generally I just try to find an existing feature with a similar concept and then use the same naming scheme. So e.g. looking at recent additions, suggests , dir="

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for secure key-value data stores

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
ve full-disk encryption, or that they > have read and agreed to a policy that states that they must use > full-disk encryption. This way, it's the user or the IT department's > responsibility to ensure that the disk is encrypted securely, not the > browser vendor which m

Re: [whatwg] Bluetooth devices

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
tion show that it is possible, show that it can be done in a secure fashion, show what a reasonable API for it would be, and show that there is author demand for the feature. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] Additional onxxxx event attributes for DOM Level3 Events

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
based on completeness. New features are added based on either use cases (i.e. problems that authors or users are facing), or compatibility (i.e. things that browsers already do). If there are specific events for which event handler attributes would be useful, I encourage you to request those sp

Re: [whatwg] Please (re)consider explicitly allowing marking up speaker names with (new information)

2010-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
to pages that use in this way] This has been discussed pretty much to death in the past, including examining existing pages that do this. This proposal does not add new information to the discussion, so I haven't changed the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\

Re: [whatwg] pushState and session history issues

2010-11-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Mihai Parparita wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Mihai Parparita wrote: > > > https://webkit.org/b/42861 has more tests, but briefly, the behavior > > > in the latest stable versions of these

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2010-11-27 Thread Ian Hickson
g is in contrast orders of magnitude more complicated. One can therefore assume with some confidence that it would not be a good way to achieve practical accessibility in the real world. Several alternatives exist, as noted earlier: contenteditable="", for instance, is more or less au

Re: [whatwg] Treatment of negative values for li

2010-11-15 Thread Ian Hickson
h describes, and it's not clear that there's a compat reason for any particular behaviour, so I specced the simpler and saner behaviour. I don't recall if I studied common values of value="" and start="" on and . (If I did then presumably they weren't

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