Re: [whatwg] atob/btoa need to be defined

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Benson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 8/25/10 9:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Note that this issue means that using atob or btoa for dealing with this is a huge pain if non-ASCII chars are involved, since those take and return byte arrays masquerading as JS

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, section 4.11

2009-09-16 Thread Kevin Benson
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Tool bar appears to be the historically correct term, toolbar seems to be a new spelling. I can't recall ever seeing tool bar before.  [toolbar] has

Re: [whatwg] article/section/details naming/definition problems

2009-09-15 Thread Kevin Benson
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I'd like to rename article, if someone can come up with a better word that means blog post, blog comment, forum post, or widget. I do think there is an important difference between a subpart of a page that is a potential

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Benson
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: In 4.10.10: The purposes of this requirement, lines are delimited by the start of the string, the end of the string, and U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN - U+000A LINE FEED (CRLF) character pairs. I can't parse this

Re: [whatwg] Storage mutex

2009-08-28 Thread Kevin Benson
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Jeremy Orlowjor...@chromium.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Jeremy Orlow jor...@chromium.org wrote: Lastly, is navigator.getStorageUpdates() the right name for the function that drops the lock?  Why was it changed from navigator.releaseLock()?  I

Re: [whatwg] EDITORIAL - Suggested corrections

2009-08-28 Thread Kevin Benson
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Kevin Benson wrote: 4.10.4.1.17 Radio Button state Either neither a nor b have a form owner, or they both have one and it is the same for both. S//Either a and b both have no form owner//Either neither

Re: [whatwg] Section 1.7 abstract language

2009-08-22 Thread Kevin Benson
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Kevin Benson wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: This specification defines an abstract language for describing

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, section 4.8

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Benson
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: In 4.8.10.5: There are some Unicode characters (U+231B? an hourglass?) here that are showing up as white boxes for me at the beginning of some of the list elements. Their purpose is described later in 4.8.10.5

[whatwg] EDITORIAL - Suggested typographical corrections

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Benson
--- --- Suggested typographical corrections for: HTML 5 Draft Standard (Aug. 18, 06:49:15 AM EDT) --- --- Example: [S]UBSTITUTE//correct//incorrect// - - (reason for correction) --- --- 4.4.3 The nav element that are targetted at users S//targeted//targetted// - - (typo) --- 4.8.1 The

[whatwg] EDITORIAL - Suggested grammatical corrections

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Benson
--- --- Suggested grammatical corrections for: HTML 5 Draft Standard (Aug. 18, 06:53:04 AM EDT) --- --- Example: [S]UBSTITUTE//correct//incorrect// - - (reason for correction) --- --- 2.1.5 Plugins it is expected to be user-agent- and platform-specific. S//platform- and user-agent

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, section 4.8

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Benson
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comsimetrical%2b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Kevin Bensonkevin.m.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Their purpose is described later in 4.8.10.5 Loading the media resource at step 20: Yes, but maybe a

Re: [whatwg] 2.3 editorial: operators, operations, or ?

2009-08-15 Thread Kevin Benson
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: I do agree that comparison operator sounds a little weird in this context. I can't really put my finger on why, though, That might be because the typical use for the word comparison is as... a _noun_ ( not an

Re: [whatwg] Section 1.7 abstract language

2009-08-13 Thread Kevin Benson
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: This specification defines an abstract language for describing documents and applications, and some APIs for interacting with in-memory representations of resources that use this

[whatwg] Section 4.10.4.1.4 and Section 9.1.2.6

2009-08-13 Thread Kevin Benson
In section 4.10.4.1.4 URL state, the text reads: The input element represents a control for editing a single absolute URL given in the element's value. If the is mutable, the user agent should allow the user to change the URL represented by its value. I believe that last line should read: If