Re: [whatwg] apos; in text/html

2006-04-25 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mar 11, 2006, at 02:21, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Simon Pieters wrote: Should apos; be a valid charater reference in text/html? If not, what would be correct error handling? I went with making it valid, since it's valid in XML. That's problematic, because allowing it

[whatwg] The embed element

2006-04-25 Thread Henri Sivonen
The party line has been that the embed element is badly designed and evil and needs to be replaced with the object element. Yet, for compatibility, tools keep generating embed as a child of object and practically-oriented guides suggest it. According to

Re: [whatwg] Conformance requirements for IRIs

2006-04-25 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 17, 2006, at 19:14, Henri Sivonen wrote: Then I found http://jena.sourceforge.net/tmp/javadoc/com/hp/hpl/jena/iri/ IRIFactory.html which provides a fascinating number of enforcement options. I could write a custom datatype wrapper for it, but I don't know which options to use. I

Re: [whatwg] Conformance class for XML tool-based non-browsers (was: Re: Unsafe SGML minimizations)

2006-04-25 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 15, 2006, at 00:21, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: Therefore, I suggest calling apps that have the following properties conforming with some qualifications: * The UA is a conforming XHTML5 UA. * The UA is able to convert any conforming HTML5 document

[whatwg] Common number formats

2006-04-25 Thread Henri Sivonen
(Again, from the document conformance point of view:) I assume number formats in attributes consistently do not allow whitespace before and after. Am I right? I assume that an explicit + sign is always forbidden. Correct? Is the - sign forbidden in front of zero? (Would be logical

Re: [whatwg] Conformance class for XML tool-based non-browsers (was: Re: Unsafe SGML minimizations)

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: I don't want to change the spec to say that you can do whatever you want when handling a parse error, because that is what would cause non-interoperable behaviour. I see, but I expect people to use TagSoup anyway for non-browser apps... They