asking for permission to be the default.)
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Sophomore -- Computer Science B.S.
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 18:39, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Adam Shannon wrote:
I don't like having the only barrier between changing the default search
engine for a user's browser be a single dialog box. This list (and
others) have repeatedly found that dialogs don't
/Long coordinates which can be entered either
manually or with some kind of map like interface.
These are two separate proposals and I both could co-exist one as
type=location and the other as type=gps
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, Adam Shannon a...@ashannon.us wrote:
How would the browser assist you? Would you start to type in new
yor and it would drop down a list giving you options?
How will browsers get the list (and future) lists which have to be
customized to the input? Remote listing? Buit-in database?
On Fri
profile, a user submits a simple doodle as their
avatar.
Use Case:
To quickly log into an online system, a user scribbles a password,
which their server tests for fidelity to their prior scribbled input.
-Charles
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http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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) button in HTML to be clicked
more than once or is this clearly a behavior (and therefore be solved with
JS)?
Regards
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faster to work with, and I'm sure I'm
not alone. So hopefully it can be brought back to life some time soon?
Cheers,
Remy Sharp
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never cut things off then the spec will really never be finished
before 2020. I agree that somethings can be reopened but there are also
some which have been resolved and any new discussions are coming a year++
later.
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of development.
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* Vorbis is widely adopted by major companies in portable media players
* Vorbis is royalty-free
It has been tried but Apple will not implement it due to hardware
limitations.
Remco
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decline to do it.
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for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. [Isaiah
53:5-6]
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On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Adam Shannon ashannon1...@gmail.comwrote:
What about slower, public, or WIFI connections that can't support 5 people
going to yahoo.com and having audio of interviews load? Yahoo
/2009-July/ )
-jJ
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there is a black screen (or
still image), even though they can hear the audio.
-Charles
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of Trojan codecs: it would help if third-party plug-ins
for codecs could be sandboxed so that they cannot have access to anything
they do not have to access in order to do their job, and only via an API
provided by the host.
IMHO,
Chris
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Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Shannon wrote:
I don't see any value in the user-agent specified amount of time delay
in stopping scripts. How can you write cleanup code when you have no
consistency in how long it gets to run (or if it runs at all)?
The user-agent
to flag if a cleanup
operation failed to complete. Storage and Database interfaces are too
heavy for the purpose of simple data like this.
Shannon
would resolve the cross-domain issues (the CGI can relay
the actual service via a backend connection) and most of the proxy
issues above (since proxy GET and CONNECT are more reliable on these ports).
Shannon
header.
Shannon
as an asynchronous binary TCP socket. What
exactly are you concerned about?
Shannon
.
Shannon
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Shannon wrote:
I would like to restore the pros and cons.
I just merged the non-obvious ones into the text and removed the obvious
ones.
Merging pros and cons into the opening paragraph is a poor design
choice. It makes it more difficult
Ben Adida wrote:
Shannon wrote:
link rel=vocabulary
href=http://some.official.vocabulary/1.1/metadata.cm;
Not workable, as this in the HEAD of the document and oftentimes we
simply can't expect users to be able to modify the head of the document
(widgets, blog engines where you can
be useful.
Since it can reuse existing CSS parsers, editors and behaviour
(selectors, cascading model) it should have a lower implementation
burden than XML+Namespaces.
Shannon
Ben Adida wrote:
Shannon wrote:
I think you were on to something with the CSS-like approach. Ian has
stated earlier that class should be considered a generic categorisation
element rather than only a CSS hook.
Three things:
1) specifying the semantics only in a separate file rules
integers and consistently call the full range
integer and the positive range integer greater than 0?
Shannon
be specific to
HTML as a rendering protocol. I've offered many good arguments for this
proposal. The rest depends on those arguments being weighed across your
claims of alternatives and implementation problems. You should have a
pretty good idea how I view those arguments by now.
Shannon
that allowed untrusted users to
write their own head tags to be incurable insecure; however this
requirement should ensure that the majority do not suddenly experience a
wave of new exploits in HTML5 browsers.
Shannon
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Shannon wrote:
The discussion on seamless iframes reminded me of something I've felt
was missing from HTML - an equivalent client functionality to
server-side includes as provided by PHP, Coldfusion and SSI.
What advantage does this have over
endlessly. I'm just stating my case for going ahead with
this feature.
Shannon
is massive effort, client-side includes is quite trivial,
relatively speaking. Certainly worth further investigation in light of
its obvious benefits.
Shannon
(removing any custom properties they might have been
given). Marshalling everything through Unicode strings is a terrible idea.
Shannon
Shannon wrote:
Think about the kind of applications that use parallel compute nodes
and you'll realise that 98% don't exist outside of academia and
laboratories due to synchronisation, network latencies and other
issues that implementing Javascript workers won't solve. More
importantly though
Jonas Sicking wrote:
Shannon wrote:
I've been following the WebWorkers discussion for some time trying to
make sense of the problems it is trying to solve. I am starting to
come to the conclusion that it provides little not already provided by:
setTimeout(mainThreadFunc,1)
setTimeout
.
Shannon
running on seperate threads
or even sets of threads per open tab/window)?
Shannon
Jonas Sicking wrote:
Shannon wrote:
I've been following the WebWorkers discussion for some time trying to
make sense of the problems it is trying to solve. I am starting to
come to the conclusion that it provides little not already provided by:
setTimeout(mainThreadFunc,1)
setTimeout
to achieve
something that every other major language already provides.
Shannon
:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
Already done. The topic is currently waiting on moderation.
Shannon
though, since it was
apparently finalised in January. Is this being planned? Would any other
vendors care to comment on Dirac?
Shannon
be a significant
rewrite of current parsers.
I accept this proposal may be difficult to implement but its use case is
significant with regards to articles and blogs, especially in an era of
user-submitted content and wide screen layouts.
Shannon
this block follows that one. Nonetheless I will
do as you suggest.
Shannon
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Shannon wrote:
Something I think is really missing from HTML is linked text (in the
traditional desktop publishing sense), where two or more text boxes are
joined so that content
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Nicholas C. Zakas wrote:
From: Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:36 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze:
Perhaps it would better be named callout/?
Aside is customary in dialogue annotations, I have never
to the points I've made I will put time into
reframing my objections as a compete specification proposal.
Shannon
on these ports (multiple web
servers, shared host, tunnelled connections, 2 websocket apps on one
host, etc...).
My mistake. I misread this as *requiring* port 81 and 815. It appears
that is not the case. All ports are valid.
Shannon
rules out both CGI and proxy support
entirely since it cannot handle the addition of otherwise valid HTTP
headers (such as Expires, X-Forwarded-For or Date) in the first 85 bytes.
Shannon
that Javascript can open, read, write and close a
connection object and handle errors in a consistent manner. The
handshaking requirement and new headers appear to complicate matters
rather than help.
Shannon
and gadgets.
Shannon
it is important to remember that these sockets will enable full
read/write access to arbitrary services whereas existing methods can
only write once per connection and generally not do anything useful with
the response.
Shannon
to stop serving requests? Would this work
through Tor?
Shannon
on browser vendors?
Unlikely. It's behaviour is nearly identical to
onclick=window.location=foo which is already supported on the majority
of modern browsers except Lynx.
Is denying designers features they want going to increase standards
compliance?
No. It will reduce compliance.
Regards,
Shannon
of alt optional as far as formal validation is concerned. If you
are implying a group can be denoted by being at the same block level or
in the correct order in the stream (no intervening images) then I doubt
that would work in practice.
Shannon
consideration for blind users. It is this situation I
am trying to avoid. A valid document should provide valid alt
information, not empty ones. An altgroup supports this - empty alt tags
do not.
Shannon
in an altgroup are unavailable
then display the value of the altgroup tag. The alt attribute would then
be optional where altgroup is defined but required in all other cases.
Shannon
Shannon wrote:
What about this as a possible solution?
img src=part1.png altgroup=rating
img src=part2.png altgroup=rating
img src=part3.png altgroup=rating
altgroup id=rating value=3/5
I don't think this would raise any serious implementation issues as the
logic is quite simple;
Bill
worth of keywords in there. You can add insanity to the problems facing
blind users on the web!
Shannon
half a chance.
Shannon
on a page.
Shannon
:
- 4 book citations
- 2 book_class citations
- 1 squiggly_underline citations
Hope that makes my position on this clearer. If I misunderstood
somebodies comments then I apologise.
Shannon
this purpose already. It also has less potential for conflicts than the
type attribute since I have only ever seen rel used in the header
whereas type has existing meaning for input fields and script tags.
cite rel=book class=small blueThe Neutronium Alchemist/cite
Shannon
consideration.
Shannon
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:36 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze:
Perhaps it would better be named callout/?
Aside is customary in dialogue annotations,
I have never seen any callout.
Chris
Call it note. It may sound crude but it's hard to mistake its meaning.
Shannon
thing - only *simpler* (no scripting, events,
bubbling, etc).
So on all counts I find the claims in the FAQ incorrect and urge the
WHATWG and browser vendors to reconsider the inclusion of a global link
or href attribute.
Shannon
Pawe? Stradomski wrote:
W li?cie Shannon z dnia czwartek 28 lutego 2008:
How should nested links
work? Suppose I put href=http://a; on p element and
href=http://b; on a
span inside that p. What should happen when the user clicks on that
span? That's the reason why nested a's are forbidden
said all that I don't want this thread to continue the video
codec discussion. What I want is a clearer position statement from
WHATWG on the publics role in defining this specification.
Shannon
. A legal contract
signed by members and defining rules and penalties for non-compliance
would be a step in that direction. I don't think the public are prepared
to accept promises anymore.
Shannon
.
Shannon
importance and therefore not a
reason to shut down the debate.
Shannon
are altruistic
(sorry Dave).
Shannon
the fact the formats in question
were believed to be public-domain. However, I acknowledge the
speculative nature of this as I acknowledge the speculative nature of
your other claims (like browser manufactures not supporting OGG when the
spec becomes final).
Shannon
' as a corporation to
wreck standards for the benefit of their shareholders? They sound very
reasonable, until you realise that one way or another the public will be
paying for it.
Shannon
if the
vendors refuse. Which right now is Ogg.
Shannon
discussions and I'll concede your point (and join - it is public, and free
right?)
Ok so I found the other list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Nokia state their
reasons and clearly it was discussed (at Cambridge apparently) but why
two lists for one standard?
Shannon
then please don't just answer
them here. Anything short of a formal document on the WHATWG can't
possibly represent the group as a whole and is just going to be raised
again anyway. In other words the mailling list is not the best place to
archive these answers (if any are forthcoming).
Shannon
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Shannon wrote:
Ok so I found the other list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Nokia state their
reasons and clearly it was discussed (at Cambridge apparently) but why
two lists for one standard?
Historical reasons -- the W3C initially wasn't interested
an IMPOSSIBLE condition as a method for 'moving forward'
and then expect people to take your claims seriously.
Shannon
the format of the
cite tag to me.
Shannon
on this?
I know that's a lot of questions but I feel they SHOULD be answered
rather than simply attacking the Ogg format.
Shannon
, as many have requested - AS IS APPROPRIATE!
Shannon
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)?
Shannon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Hickson wrote:
I just checked in a change to make globalStorage far simpler -- I dropped
all the domain manipulation stuff, and made it same-origin instead. I also
dropped StorageItem and just made the Storage stuff return strings.
.
On the other hand if Jim is right and the authors of the storage
proposal are really just pushing for a better user-tracking system under
the guise of a user feature then this argument is already over. Do
whatever you like and I'll make sure it's turned off in my browser.
Shannon
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DATA
foo.bar baz kj43h545j34h6jk534dfytyf A string.
Just one idea.
Shannon
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be fixed or removed.
Shannon
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