Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-10 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Pentasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to have a few problems here, but nothing I cannot handle. For some > reason I get my e-mails later than I should and they are working on the > electricity grid here, so I have no power during the day (only at nigh

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-09 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Eduard Pascual wrote: >> >> Can somebody put forward any technical argument against this idea? > > For my benefit, could you succintly summarise the changes that this would > involve to the spec? I'm not su

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Eduard Pascual wrote: > > Can somebody put forward any technical argument against this idea? For my benefit, could you succintly summarise the changes that this would involve to the spec? (Not the exact wording, but a basic overview of what you see being added or changed.) I

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-08 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Philipp Serafin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Leons Petrazickis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It matters in the sense that web browsers would have to implement both >> approaches for backwards compatibility. >> > > This depends what y

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-05 Thread Philipp Serafin
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Leons Petrazickis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It matters in the sense that web browsers would have to implement both > approaches for backwards compatibility. > This depends what you mean when talking about "implementing" a tag. Browsers already load all tags and a

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-05 Thread Pentasis
This would only work in new browsers and is wordy: someword. It doesn't add any extra information. It's harder to use. Conceptually, it may be more elegant, but conceptual elegance is not an impetus for large scale adoptions. In my opinion, it is not a worthwhile change to pursue, when there ar

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-05 Thread Leons Petrazickis
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Pentasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am not sure whether I understand you correctly... Of course the >> practical use of a specification lies in its technical implementations, or >> do you disagree with that? You are free to specify your own markup language, >> b

Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---

2008-11-05 Thread Pentasis
Pentasis schrieb: This I understand, and I can even sympathise with it. However, I do hope that at least "they" will take this issue seriously and at least try to build in something that will enable "us" to work on that part of the spec independantly later on. I still think that the semantic