Re: [whatwg] Technical Parity with W3C HTML Spec

2010-06-25 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
How is that productive? I realize that it's meant as a joke but it does nothing but add to the impression that some in the WHATWG community just don't care about civility, respect, and cooperation. The best thing to counteract that impression is to prove it wrong. On Jun 25, 2010, at 8:51 AM,

Re: [whatwg] input type=upload (not just files) proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
Are you wanting the user to manually enter the filename, including the file:// scheme? If not, are you envisioning the file dialog box to provide a choice between selecting local files and entering an http/ftp url? On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: It would then be the server's

Re: [whatwg] input type=upload (not just files) proposal

2010-06-08 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
, at 10:45 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Simpson, Grant Leyton glsim...@indiana.edu wrote: Are you wanting the user to manually enter the filename, including the file:// scheme? If not, are you envisioning the file dialog box to provide a choice between selecting local

Re: [whatwg] 'Main Part of the Content' Idiom

2010-06-07 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
For the record, I don't disagree with any of what you said below. On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:13 AM, Daniel Persson wrote: But wouldn't we create a situation where the main content tag is misused and essentially then we'd recreate the situation with body? IMHO you can't stop tags from being misused,

Re: [whatwg] 'Main Part of the Content' Idiom

2010-06-04 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
But wouldn't we create a situation where the main content tag is misused and essentially then we'd recreate the situation with body? Best, Grant On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Daniel Persson wrote: I am not advocating ad-tags. The idea of globally structuring content on the web is very

Re: [whatwg] Installable web apps

2010-05-25 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
One question I have off the top of my head is how updates are handled. I like the idea of better integration with the OS and the browser but I don't want to lose one of what I see as the best elements of web app development, namely the need to not have to update clients' copies of the app

Re: [whatwg] Installable web apps

2010-05-25 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
, at 10:33 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:12:44 +0200, Simpson, Grant Leyton glsim...@indiana.edu wrote: One question I have off the top of my head is how updates are handled. I like the idea of better integration with the OS and the browser but I don't want to lose one

Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-10 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
I was unaware of the Microdata spec. Now that I have seen it, I think it offers a lot of power and flexibility. I think it should adequately cover the use case I was thinking of. I'm in favor of adding a non-normative note to the section of the HTML5 spec that discusses cite that

Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-07 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
On May 6, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Edward O'Connor wrote: Consider how the above would work in legacy browsers, and then consider how this would work in them: pAs Ashley Crandall Amos says in citea href=http://example.com/books/crandall/linguisticmeans;Linguistic Means of Determining the Dates

[whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-05 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
Dear WHATWG list participants, Forgive me if this conversation has been had before; I've just recently joined the list. Is there any value in adding an href or uri or similar attribute to the cite element to indicate a location for a work (or information about the work) or, in the case of a