[whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Martin McEvoy
Hello all Just one small question Why Has HTML5 dropped the rev=[1] attribute? [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#absent-attributes Thanks -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/

Re: [whatwg] video tag: pixel aspect ratio

2008-11-18 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:28 -0800, Sander van Zoest wrote: Depending on how you want to accomplish you can do that with an enum that defines how to handle the case: 1) do nothing. 2) disproportionately adjust 3) stretch follow by letter-,pillar-,windowbox appropriately. 4) complete fill

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Brickley
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Martin McEvoy wrote: Just one small question Why Has HTML5 dropped the rev=[1] attribute? [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#absent-attributes We did some studies and found that the attribute was almost never used, and most of the time, when it was

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Mike
Thomas Broyer wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the sender of that link necessarily know all the formats the URL provides? Anyway, that's an unrealistic amount of typing -- typically round here people just copy and paste a URL into an instant message

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Martin McEvoy
Hello Ian Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Martin McEvoy wrote: Just one small question Why Has HTML5 dropped the rev=[1] attribute? [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#absent-attributes We did some studies and found that the attribute was almost never used, and most of

Re: [whatwg] video tag: pixel aspect ratio

2008-11-18 Thread Sander van Zoest
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Robert O'Callahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Sander van Zoest [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: By the way, the pixel-aspect-ratio on video caps in the GStreamer framework has precisely the same meaning as this attribute, overriding it

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Smylers
Martin McEvoy writes: o be precise, the most commonly used value was rev=made, which is equivalent to rel=author and thus was not a convincing use case. !! rel-author doesn't mean the same as rev-made eg: In which cases doesn't it? If A is the author of B then B was made by A, surely?

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Brickley
Smylers wrote: Martin McEvoy writes: o be precise, the most commonly used value was rev=made, which is equivalent to rel=author and thus was not a convincing use case. !! rel-author doesn't mean the same as rev-made eg: In which cases doesn't it? If A is the author of B then B was made by

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Mike
Smylers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would the sender of that link necessarily know all the formats the URL provides? Anyway, that's an unrealistic amount of typing -- typically round here people just copy and paste a URL into an instant message and send it without any surrounding text.

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Martin McEvoy
Hello... Smylers wrote: Martin McEvoy writes: o be precise, the most commonly used value was rev=made, which is equivalent to rel=author and thus was not a convincing use case. !! rel-author doesn't mean the same as rev-made eg: In which cases doesn't it? If A is the

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Mike
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: Sorry, both as an author and as a user I'd prefer this: a href=http://example.com/report;html report/a a href=http://example.com/report.pdf;pdf report/a a href=http://example.com/report.xhtml;xml report/a - Keep It Simple. For me as an author it's less typing, and for

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Broyer wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The HTML version of that URL could provide the web page representation *and* provide links to all the other content types available. How about

Re: [whatwg] Video Element Events? - Use Case: Custom Progress Bar

2008-11-18 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:09 AM, timeless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind what we're dealing with here. dumb web authors. check. This isn't some trivial Javascript timer firing off events at 60Hz. This is a

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Martin McEvoy wrote: From the real world found here: http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/ pI read an interesting post recently, a href=http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html; title=Link to Mark Birbeck blog post‘So how about

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Brickley
Smylers wrote: Dan Brickley writes: Smylers wrote: Martin McEvoy writes: !! rel-author doesn't mean the same as rev-made eg: In which cases doesn't it? If A is the author of B then B was made by A, surely? Then B contributed to the creation of A, yes. Perhaps not on their own. But we

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Brickley
Dan Brickley wrote: Without rev, content creators (in every language) will need to go through this dance, hunting through dictionaries and debating subtleties, to make sure that they've identified a suitable pair of words such that { X word1 Y } is true if and only if { Y word1 X }. Which is

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Martin McEvoy
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: From the real world found here: http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/ pI read an interesting post recently, a href=http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html; title=Link to Mark Birbeck

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Mike
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: It's less typing - Is that serious or are you joking?! Isn't it? :) Well sure, but I still don't know if that was a joke or whether it was a serious point! A bit of both. It's not an important point by any means, though I think less verbosity

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Martin McEvoy wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: From the real world found here: http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/ a rev=reply href=http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html; title=Link to Mark Birbeck blog

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Joshua Cranmer
Mike wrote: The benefits? Oh I don't know.. a markup language that supports the transfer protocol it runs on?! Who says you have to serve HTML over HTTP? I see it served via email (and newsgroups), local filesystems, and FTP on a regular basis. Indeed, making HTML depend on HTTP-specific

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Mike
Joshua Cranmer wrote: Mike wrote: The benefits? Oh I don't know.. a markup language that supports the transfer protocol it runs on?! Who says you have to serve HTML over HTTP? I see it served via email (and newsgroups), local filesystems, and FTP on a regular basis. Indeed, making HTML depend

Re: [whatwg] Workers feedback

2008-11-18 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
on 18.11.2008 06:43, Ian Hickson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be more that happy with a separate interface if the objects actually behaved differently. One example of a good reason to have separate interfaces was recently proposed here: shared workers should outlive their creators. This is

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Martin McEvoy
Robert O'Rourke wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: From the real world found here: http://nfegen.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/micrordformats/ a rev=reply href=http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-how-about-using-rdfa-in-microformats.html; title=Link

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Martin McEvoy wrote: Robert O'Rourke wrote: Hi Martin, hope you're well :) Hello Rob, nice to hear from you, yes I am well :-) Glad to hear it! I don't chirp up that often on this list but I have to agree that @rev isn't much of a loss. Perhaps for the above example rel=source or

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Martin McEvoy wrote: We did some studies and found that the attribute was almost never used, and most of the time, when it was used, it was a typo where someone meant to write rel= but wrote rev=. To be precise, the most commonly used value was rev=made, which is

Re: [whatwg] [rest-discuss] HTML5 and RESTful HTTP in browsers

2008-11-18 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 18 Nov 2008, at 16:41, Joshua Cranmer wrote: (and if you retort XMLHTTPRequest, let me point out that I personally would have objected to injecting HTTP specifics into that interface, had I been around during the design phases) XMLHttpRequest doesn't need to be XML, it doesn't need to

Re: [whatwg] Absent rev?

2008-11-18 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Nov 18, 2008, at 16:54, Dan Brickley wrote: Yes, 'software' was a bad example. But Dublin Core certainly did abandon the early term 'author' in favour of 'creator' after a workshop looking at requirements around images, museum artifacts and so on. We can still define that the HTML

Re: [whatwg] Caching offline Web applications

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Nordman
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on this and other offline feedback (no pun intended), I've changed the spec to make iframes never inherit the manifest. Seems workable... of course until app developers actually start trying to use this system, the

[whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Dmitry Titov
Pages communicate with their workers (dedicated) via queue of eventshttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#the-queue . What happens if the queue gets more and more events queued (as a result of postMessage or timer callbacks) and the worker thread does not consume them fast enough?

Re: [whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Dmitry Titov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pages communicate with their workers (dedicated) via queue of eventshttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#the-queue . What happens if the queue gets more and more events queued (as a result of postMessage

Re: [whatwg] Caching offline Web applications

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Nordman
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I know you added the behavior of failing loads when a URL is not in the manifest based on something I said, but now that I read it, it feels a bit draconian. I wish that developers could somehow easily control the

Re: [whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Dmitry Titov
It does seem like OOM indeed but it may be different because with multiple threads it's much easier to get into effects like this, you don't need to allocate a lot of objects.For example, lets say there is something like this: function computeStuff() { ... } // takes 100ms to compute stuff

Re: [whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Dmitry Titov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem like OOM indeed but it may be different because with multiple threads it's much easier to get into effects like this, you don't need to allocate a lot of objects. You're not allocating JS objects but you are

Re: [whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Dmitry Titov
Ok, it makes sense for OOM to treat it as other OOM cases. If I may ask your opinion about related thing: SharedWorkers potentially would run cross-process. IPC can stop/stuck for many reasons, taret process can die in the midflight (killed by the user from TaskManager for example). I guess in

Re: [whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Dmitry Titov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, it makes sense for OOM to treat it as other OOM cases. If I may ask your opinion about related thing: SharedWorkers potentially would run cross-process. IPC can stop/stuck for many reasons, taret process can die in the

Re: [whatwg] Workers and queue of events

2008-11-18 Thread Jonas Sicking
Aaron Boodman wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Dmitry Titov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, it makes sense for OOM to treat it as other OOM cases. If I may ask your opinion about related thing: SharedWorkers potentially would run cross-process. IPC can stop/stuck for many reasons, taret