Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-26 Thread Gervase Markham
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Check spelling: ( ) Never (*) As the page author suggests ( ) Always But that really brings out the foolishness of the idea. I can imagine a user looking at that option and thinking Duh - how on earth is the page author ever going to know when and how I want spelling

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-26 Thread James Graham
Gervase Markham wrote: Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Check spelling: ( ) Never (*) As the page author suggests ( ) Always This isn't actually strictly necessary at all - one can imagine the setting being on a per field basis with the author value representing the default and the user being able

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-26 Thread Gervase Markham
James Graham wrote: The only sensible use case that has been suggested so far is for online email apps which allow 1 email addresses in an input type=text - in this case none of the text will be recognized by the spellchecker vs. an input type=text which contains an email subject line, which

[whatwg] secure attribute in Storage section of WA spec

2006-06-26 Thread Gervase Markham
The Web Applications 1.0 spec says: 5.7.3. The StorageItem interface Items in Storage objects are represented by objects implementing the StorageItem interface. interface StorageItem { attribute boolean secure; attribute DOMString value; }; I would like to

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... But realistically, browsers won't allow the user to easily override it if they want to, because any interface for doing that would be absurd. ... * Status bar icon/text that indicates if spell checking is on or

Re: [whatwg] secure attribute in Storage section of WA spec

2006-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gervase Markham wrote: interface StorageItem { attribute boolean secure; attribute DOMString value; }; I would like to suggest the the secure attribute be an integer rather than a boolean, initially with 0 meaning insecure, and 1 meaning

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Raymond
Anne van Kesteren wrote: Quoting Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If this whole attribute rigmarole is merely about trying to distinguish between an input type=text containing email addresses and one containing a subject line, then it seems like a storm in a teacup to me. Either people have

[whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?

2006-06-26 Thread dolphinling
HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows a list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems like the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a single list is marked by multiple ols. Would it therefore make sense to allow named start