Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote: The wording Unless otherwise specified makes it sound like it's not otherwise specified, though, or at least it's noncommittal about whether it's otherwise specified. It would be clearer (and marginally shorter) if it said The user agent should

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-27 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I've gone through the spec changing unless to except where in a lot of cases. Let me know if you think it should be better still. That looks great, as long as something else is actually specified somewhere in each of those cases.

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I'm not really sure what you mean here.  - There's the element's value content attribute.  - There's the element's value DOM attribute.  - There's the value mode that the value DOM attribute can be in.  - There's the

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote: In 4.10.4: It's a little confusing that no visual distinction is made between content attributes and DOM attributes here.  I thought it was an error that checked occurred twice, for instance.  (Or is it an error? Things like max and min only

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-06 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: (BTW, section names are more useful than section numbers because the sections move about a lot, and because the section numbers aren't in my source document, so I have to go and look up which section it is first.) Ah, okay. I'll

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote: In 4.9.11: The rowSpan DOM attribute must reflect the content attribute of the same name. Its default value, which must be used if parsing the attribute as a non-negative integer returns an error, is also 1. What does also refer to? Nothing,

Re: [whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Benson
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+...@gmail.com wrote: In 4.10.10: The purposes of this requirement, lines are delimited by the start of the string, the end of the string, and U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN - U+000A LINE FEED (CRLF) character pairs. I can't parse this

[whatwg] Spec comments, sections 4.9-4.10

2009-09-02 Thread Aryeh Gregor
In 4.9.11: The rowSpan DOM attribute must reflect the content attribute of the same name. Its default value, which must be used if parsing the attribute as a non-negative integer returns an error, is also 1. What does also refer to? In 4.10.4: It's a little confusing that no visual distinction