Re: [whatwg] Parsing, syntax, and content model feedback

2009-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Edward Z. Yang wrote: # in the ranges U+0001 to U+0008, U+000B, U+000E to U+001F, U+007F to # U+009F, U+D800 to U+DFFF, U+FDD0 to U+FDDF, and characters U+FFFE... It seems fairly clear to me that U+000B should moved to the list of characters (at the cost of the nice

Re: [whatwg] Parsing, syntax, and content model feedback

2008-12-28 Thread Garrett Smith
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/25 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch XMLHttpRequest was invented by Netscape, now it is a W3C Technical Report (I don't remember what maturity level). The same with so called DOM level 0 (now HTML5) No,

Re: [whatwg] Parsing, syntax, and content model feedback

2008-12-27 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:51:52 +0100, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: PS: what we probably need now is more implementation of current W3C Reccomandations like XForms 1.0, instead of running behind the latest HTML5 Editor's Drafts) FWIW, the reason the WHATWG was founded was

[whatwg] Parsing, syntax, and content model feedback

2008-12-25 Thread Ian Hickson
This is a bulk reply to a variety of e-mails on the topic of the HTML5 syntax, its parsing rules, and sent to the WHATWG list. On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Henri Sivonen wrote: 2.3.1. Since blockquote is so abused that it is useless for AI, allowing attribution within the blockquote would

Re: [whatwg] Parsing, syntax, and content model feedback

2008-12-25 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Edward Z. Yang wrote: in the range 0x to 0x0008, U+000B, U+000E to 0x001F, 0x007F to 0x009F, 0xD800 to 0xDFFF , 0xFDD0 to 0xFDDFin the range 0x to 0x0008, U+000B, U+000E to 0x001F, 0x007F to 0x009F, 0xD800 to 0xDFFF, 0xFDD0 to 0xFDDF U+000B

Re: [whatwg] Parsing, syntax, and content model feedback

2008-12-25 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2008/12/25 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch We're very constrained by the legacy for text/html's syntax; sadly, usability concerns aren't really able to make us change the language. [...] The goal is not to guess what the author meant when the authors makes a mistake; the goal is to have