Re: [whatwg] Zip archives as first-class citizens

2013-09-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 28 August 2013 14:32, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: We have thought of three approaches for zip URL design thus far: * Using a sub-scheme (zip) with a zip-path (after !): zip:http://www.example.org/zip!image.gif * Introducing a zip-path (after %!):

Re: [whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-11-09 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Merci beaucoup Pierre. That was quite a detailed reply! -- Nicholas.

[whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/th.html#th.attrs.scope Says nothing about what a UA should do by default, nor when scope can be omitted due to such defaults. I suggest explicitly defining defaults for the benefit of both UAs and HTML authors. I would expect the defaults to be defined something

Re: [whatwg] Default scope for table headers

2012-10-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 1 October 2012 10:21, Michael[tm] Smith m...@w3.org wrote: Don't look to that document for any information about default UA behavior, or anything at all about UA processing behavior. I tried to make that very clear in the abstract and intro for that document. Sorry, I never saw that:

Re: [whatwg] image element

2008-07-30 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 30 Jul 2008, at 4:49 am, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Nicholas Shanks wrote: I asked for the resurrection of HTML+'s imagefallback/image element last month. The reasons I cited were exactly the same as the reasons being given now in favour of the video element, however I

Re: [whatwg] embed feedback

2008-07-24 Thread Nicholas Shanks
that turns off all kinds of sniffing and hacks that the browser does to support the ‘real internet’ (so, in this case, it would display text). This would be incredibly useful as a debugging tool when working on large web sites that I didn't author. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description

Re: [whatwg] Removing @rev

2008-05-15 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 14 May 2008, at 12:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008, Křištof Želechovski wrote: Removing @rev is harmful for Lynx because that is how it decides who the author is. Removing rev= from the spec doesn't preclude Lynx still supporting it for legacy documents, and for new

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-23 Thread Nicholas Shanks
as blah blah blah! This usage has nothing to do with disambiguation, and is only concerned with text-to-speech (even if that speech is unspoken). As such, these kinds of abbreviations should not be marked up IMO, but left to the synthesizer's lexicon. On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-21 Thread Nicholas Shanks
make things unnecessarily difficult for currently valid HTML4 to migrate to valid HTML5. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] Hyperlinks with |title| attribute

2008-04-08 Thread Nicholas Shanks
of the resource (file name), the final part of the path. I do not believe this is in scope for the specification. I don't see an interoperability issue here. But it does sound like a potential security issue, re-titling external documents. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [whatwg] ins, del, and mark crossing element boundaries

2008-04-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
for this lack of use which should be addressed. Are the elements necessary in HTML, should the information they convey be specified in another manner completely? [1] http://code.google.com/webstats/ — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] Video

2008-04-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
quality. Re-encode it into ogg from the source material, and make sure your ogg exporter settings are apropriate for the delivery medium you want. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question

2008-04-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
tree and apply media-less and aural CSS (and potentially never display anything on screen). visibility: hidden and display: none should both hide content from screen readers. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question

2008-04-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 1 Apr 2008, at 10:14 am, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Nicholas Shanks wrote: I know that everyone already knows this, but I think a reminder might be timely: Be careful not to confuse screen readers, who's job it is to read what is displayed on the screen, That's something

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question - SSML

2008-03-19 Thread Nicholas Shanks
be embedded into HTML, using similar principles as is being considered for SVG. Lars Gunther — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question

2008-03-17 Thread Nicholas Shanks
the content but to report it to screen readers? Or maybe a noview/ element could be used to surround content that shouldn't be displayed but should be accessible to screen readers? Any thoughts? -Nicholas Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. — Nicholas

Re: [whatwg] Reverse ordered lists

2008-01-10 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 9 Jan 2008, at 16:54, Simon Pieters wrote: Siemova wrote: The easiest, most obvious solution would be to create an attribute for Ordered Lists -- let's call it order= -- which would have two possible values: ftl (first to last) and ltf (last to first). if we go this route, i'd prefer

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-27 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 27 Jun 2007, at 09:28, Maik Merten wrote: Browsers don't rely on the OS to decode JPEG or PNG or GIF either In my experience that seems to be exactly what they do do—rely on the OS to provide image decoding (as with other AV media). I say this because changes that had occurred in the OS

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-27 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 27 Jun 2007, at 11:55, Robert O'Callahan wrote: In my experience... You do not know what you are talking about. Firefox does not use OS image decoders. And I don't use Firefox, so my point is still valid. Please don't inform me of what you think I know or do not know, it is impolite.

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-26 Thread Nicholas Shanks
I don't quite get some of the arguments in the thread. Browsers don't (and shouldn't) include their own av decoders anyway. Codec support is an operating system issue, and any browser installed on my computer supports exactly the same set of codecs, which are the ones made available via the

[whatwg] One document or two?

2007-05-24 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Various people have expressed opinions in favour of either one spec to rule them all, or two specs for different audiences. Is not the simplest solution to have two views upon the same spec? HTML 5, Full Version (User Agent Edition) foo is deprecated and should not be used, but you have to

Re: [whatwg] return lowercase hex values for fillStyle and strokeStyle

2007-05-10 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 10 May 2007, at 07:31, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Instead of returning an uppercase six digit hex value I suggest returning a lowercase value for compatibility with what UAs (including IE) currently do for CSS already and what Mozilla already does

Re: [whatwg] return lowercase hex values for fillStyle and strokeStyle

2007-05-10 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 10 May 2007, at 08:45, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 09:02:52 +0200, Nicholas Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it not make more sense to fix the UAs. lower-case hex is horrible to read. Feel free to convince the Microsoft Internet Explorer team. Then again, it's

[whatwg] HTTP's Referer and Set-Cookie2 headers

2007-04-17 Thread Nicholas Shanks
May I suggest that you also allow the DOM referrer attribute to match a HTTP Referrer header if one is present, and fall back to the Referer header otherwise. This provides for HTML 5 compliant UAs to be forwards compatible with a potential future HTTP spec that fixes the typo. Also, the

[whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread Nicholas Shanks
I have a website which discusses typography, web design, and computer fonts. It recently occurred to me that my use of spans with style elements was not really the most semantic method of getting across my meaning, and I would be better using the font element. My content goes something

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

2007-04-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 7 Apr 2007, at 02:56, Anne van Kesteren wrote: The tokenization section should also handle: !-- !--- as correct comments for compat with the web. This means that ! shows -- and that !- shows --. Why on earth is this a good idea? AFAIK browsers and other HTML clients

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

2007-04-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 7 Apr 2007, at 15:47, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:27:14 +0200, Nicholas Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK browsers and other HTML clients don't currently treat these as comments, [...] Well, sorry to say, you got your facts wrong. *sigh* I guess that means we're

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

2007-04-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 7 Apr 2007, at 23:48, David Håsäther wrote: Markup starting with ! are declarations in SGML not tags. Yeah, sorry. I added the doctype bit after object and forgot to go back and amend the introductory statement. Consider the question to be tags and declarations that don't start with

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: automatic cross-reference attribute: xref=

2007-03-26 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 25 Mar 2007, at 23:13, Simon Pieters wrote: The current draft of HTML5 has an automatic cross-reference feature with the span, abbr, code, var, samp, and i elements, which would point to a matching dfn element. I don't see tens of thousands of web developers crying out for this kind

Re: [whatwg] datetime - dateTime

2007-03-25 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 24 Mar 2007, at 16:57, Anne van Kesteren wrote: The dateTime DOM attribute is spelled with an uppercase T: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-79359609 I just encountered that while implementing longdesc support. The IMG attribute is lower-case, the DOM attribute is

Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

2007-03-23 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 23 Mar 2007, at 02:27, Robert Brodrecht wrote: Just because most ... doesn't bother doesn't mean it ought to be removed. So let's not ignore elements because no one uses them. Ignore them because they are useless. I was thinking more along the lines of: 1) We start with a set containing

Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

2007-03-23 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 23 Mar 2007, at 13:17, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:40:47 +0100, Nicholas Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mostly unused, not even deprecated, these elements bloat the spec, confuse lay authors (i.e. those not of a computer science background) and I feel would be better

Re: [whatwg] Markup for external content

2007-03-23 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 23 Mar 2007, at 17:59, Henri Sivonen wrote: pretending that applet doesn't exist won't make applets disappear. :-( Perhaps not, but this will: applet { display: none !important; } :o) - Nicholas. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] source

2007-03-23 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 23 Mar 2007, at 20:47, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I agree the repetition of source/src is a little weird. and name the new element something like alt I don't like abbreviations such as alt and src. The use case is uncommon enough that alternate wouldn't be too much of a burden to type and

Re: [whatwg] Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 22 Mar 2007, at 00:08, Maciej Stachowiak proposed: CSS Timed Media Module HTML Timed Media Elements • On volume: The volume property is currently inconsistent in the string names defined: http://webkit.org/specs/Timed_Media_CSS.html#propdef-volume Value: reads silent | soft | medium |

Re: [whatwg] Full screen for the video element

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 22 Mar 2007, at 14:16, Gervase Markham wrote: Martin Atkins wrote: Perhaps you and I have different ideas about what is meant by full screen, but why would a page need to hide anything when the video is full screen? The page itself won't be visible, because the video will be taking up

Re: [whatwg] whatwg-legal

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 22 Mar 2007, at 16:11, Robert Sayre wrote: On 3/22/07, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it not have made more sense to at least have asked the WHAT-WG No. I think you're wrong and clearly I'm not alone. In fact I think legal matters *should* be discussed here and

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 22 Mar 2007, at 20:53, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Sorry to jump into this conversation at such a late point, but I only just joined the mailing list. About 8 years ago, we had the idea of using fragment offsets to start playing from offsets of media files. However, in discussions with the URI

Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Continuing today's flood of emails from me to this list, here's another. Note: I never bothered to read this thread the first time, but since Henri has brought to the top of my email client again, I started from the beginning. I want to comment on the eight bullets given at:

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 23 Mar 2007, at 01:30, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: (Note that a mechanism to allow authors to define anchors in videos is not a solution, because it's then still the author who is in control. What I'm suggesting is about giving the user control.) Can't we have all of: 1) A way for

Re: [whatwg] require img dimensions to be correct?

2007-03-21 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 21 Mar 2007, at 09:37, Henri Sivonen wrote: OTOH, the left/right alignment of table cells *is* often tightly coupled with the cell data, which suggests that the cell alignment attributes should not be dropped. Alternatively it could just be allowed on the col and colspan, where it

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-21 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 21 Mar 2007, at 12:43, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: Something else concerning first-class Netizenry: I'd like to see the spec to require UAs support implicit anchors, so that one can link to a specific startpoint: URL:http://domain.example/movie.ogg#21:08, to mean fetch the movie and start

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-20 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 20 Mar 2007, at 21:50, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: However, I think if object is so widely derided by everyone, than I think it needs to be depreciated sooner rather than later. I have seriously considered doing this. Unfortunately I don't think we can actually

Re: [whatwg] require img dimensions to be correct?

2007-03-20 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 17 Mar 2007, at 23:28, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: I think that in most cases will be better if we could package complex pages into zip envelopes and deliver them in the whole. That would be real solution of jumps. And img width=... height=... is a palliative. I have an open bug with

Re: [whatwg] Resurrection of HTML+'s image (was: video element feedback)

2007-03-20 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 21 Mar 2007, at 00:27, Simon Pieters wrote: I asked for the resurrection of HTML+'s imagefallback/image element last month. I was told that would break existing implementations Existing implementations include at least: * Internet Explorer * Firefox * Opera * Safari The image start

[whatwg] Navigation Lists — A different use fo r MENU, and two errors

2007-03-19 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Given XHTML 2.0's idea of an element for navigation list (using nl as the tag [1]), it occurred to me that menu, deprecated in HTML 4 but resurrected in HTML 5, would be entirely suitable for this purpose and fully backwards compatible. From what I can gather, this was the intended purpose

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-16 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Discussion on aspect ratio: You may want to consider aspect ratio too: ratio=preserve being default, ratio=1.333 could indicate 4:3 or get tricky and accept 16:9 for precision reasons. Wouldn't we simply always want to use the authored size? Do videos encode what size they are best

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-16 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 16 Mar 2007, at 15:32, Shadow2531 wrote: .loop, .startpos loop = false | true autostart = true | false startpos = 0 | specified pos Could you elaborate on the use cases for these? video src=VideoIWasWatching.ogg param name=startpos value=value gotten from cookie where I left off at

Re: [whatwg] Attributes vs. Elements

2007-03-12 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 12 Mar 2007, at 20:19, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Case: td a href=1.htmxyz/a/td td a href=2.htmxyz-xyz-xyz/a/td is perfectly valid from some abstract semantic machine point of view but for human these two cells are not equal. At least hit area is different. And visual perception too. All you

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 2 Mar 2007, at 10:01, Gervase Markham wrote: I think a base format is vital. With img we had de-facto standard formats because of what the first browsers supported. It took ages to get another one added (PNG) and it wasn't widely used until browser support firmed up. If a base format

Re: [whatwg] href attribute

2007-03-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 2 Mar 2007, at 17:00, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Likewise, HTML has a to explicitly express the semantics of a hyperlink. I don't see how the language would benefit from the ability of turning any element into a link. The main use I would put it to is on li elements, especially tables

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 1 Mar 2007, at 11:56, Anne van Kesteren wrote: That's one of the reasons a dedicated element is better than reusing the object element. All the new video specific APIs would otherwise have to be defined for all possible things the object element can represent (images, nested browser

Re: [whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 -- HTML

2007-02-09 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 9 Feb 2007, at 07:47, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 8 févr. 2007 à 20:17, Nicholas Shanks a écrit : On 6 Feb 2007, at 07:57, Karl Dubost wrote: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_1.html I wish the imagefallback/image tags had made it through the years. It's so much better than img alt

[whatwg] IMAGE element (was XSLT: HTML 5 -- HTML)

2007-02-09 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 9 Feb 2007, at 15:51, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Nicholas Shanks wrote: Yes, like OBJECT, but with a different name. A nicer name than IMG. One with three vowels. One that only accepts image/* content types. One with a more specific usage that can be controlled independently of OBJECT

Re: [whatwg] De-emphasis

2007-02-09 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 9 Feb 2007, at 17:19, David Latapie wrote: - small: It does not cope well inline. I (almost) never use small in a paragraph; I use it for one-liners, e.g. smallsource:/small or smallNo this is a long post, right?/small Agreed, when I use small, which these days is just for things like

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-08 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 8 Feb 2007, at 15:23, Leons Petrazickis wrote: In the Western world, the standard for highlighting is a neon yellow background. I submit that a much better name for m is hi (hilite, highlite, highlight). I don't like the look of hi — it doesn't tell me what it does very well. Maybe it

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-08 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 8 Feb 2007, at 18:00, David Latapie wrote: Problem with mark/m is that its meaning is confusing. I don't think it's any more confusing than hi would be. See below... And still don't see any difference with em or strong. How would you pronounce an important word? How would you pronounce

Re: [whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 -- HTML

2007-02-08 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 6 Feb 2007, at 07:57, Karl Dubost wrote: unlikely. div and span elements didn't exist in HTML+. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_1.html Ironically I was just reading that earlier today, then saw your post! (I hadn't been reading this thread.) I wish the imagefallback/image

Re: [whatwg] De-emphasis

2007-02-08 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 8 Feb 2007, at 22:31, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Feb 8, 2007, at 21:09, Nicholas Shanks wrote: de-em, de-emph, subdue or other new element What would the default visual presentation be? One or more of: none (i.e. same as span: 'inherit everything') opacity: 0.8 font-size: smaller

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On concern that we would be 'wasting' such a short element name for such an esoteric usage, why not call it mark instead? - Nicholas. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] contenteditable, em and strong

2007-01-10 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Having come in to this conversation half way, I'd like to give my opinions. In the following 'default style' means in the UAs style declarations for all documents of the language. There should be three emphasis elements: em Increases emphatic semantics by one level. *No* default

Re: [whatwg] return lowercase hex values for fillStyle and strokeStyle

2006-09-05 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 5 Sep 2006, at 12:54, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Instead of returning an uppercase six digit hex value I suggest returning a lowercase value for compatibility with what UAs (including IE) currently do It may be the right decision on compatibility grounds, but other than that

[whatwg] css3-fonts: New values for generic font families

2006-07-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
a user agent would likely find it falls back to them much more often than for 'serif' and 'sans-serif'. - Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [whatwg] css3-fonts: New values for generic font families

2006-07-02 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Hi Håkon, thanks for replying. Why not just follow the guidelines in the CSS3 font module?: Ahh, I didn't see there were instructions on the module itself on where to send suggestions, and it doesn't give the main author's name (just the CSS2 authors and Tantek… et al). I was on that css