[whatwg] request for clarification: aside, figure

2009-05-10 Thread Bruce Lawson
I don't think the spec is clear enough defining these two elements from an author's perspective. The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that

Re: [whatwg] request for clarification: aside, figure

2009-05-10 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Sun, 10 May 2009 08:58:47 +0100, Bruce Lawson bru...@opera.com wrote: Typo in last email: I meant For example, in the middle of a fictional interview about markup, I might want to pull out a quote and citation: Do I write aside blockquoteAfter a sip of sweet sherry, I turn into Mr Last

[whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in over the past few months was the following: USE CASE: Annotate structured data that HTML has no semantics for, and which nobody has annotated before, and may never again, for private use or use in a small

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-10 Thread Philip Taylor
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in over the past few months was the following:   USE CASE: Annotate structured data that HTML has no semantics for, and   which nobody has annotated

[whatwg] Custom microdata handling added to HTML5 spec

2009-05-10 Thread Shelley Powers
Since a new section detailing HTML5's handling of custom microdata has been added to the HTML5 spec (tracked here http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3073to=3074 and displayed here http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#microdata and announced

[whatwg] Continuing

2009-05-10 Thread Shelley Powers
Sorry for the double emails today. I will continue with revisiting the use cases for the microdata section. One additional component I'll add to the use cases is applying my interpretation of how RDFa might handle the use case, as compared to how it could be handled with Ian's new HTML5

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-10 Thread jgraham
Quoting Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in over the past few months was the following:   USE CASE: Annotate structured data that HTML has no

Re: [whatwg] Custom microdata handling added to HTML5 spec

2009-05-10 Thread Manu Sporny
Shelley Powers wrote: Since a new section detailing HTML5's handling of custom microdata has been added to the HTML5 spec http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#microdata I've only had a brief chance to look over the HTML5 Microdata spec, but there is one big problem that overrides all

Re: [whatwg] Micro-data/Microformats/RDFa Interoperability Requirement

2009-05-10 Thread Ben Adida
Julian wrote: You are aware of MNot's Web Linking draft (http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-05.html), and the fact that it seems to enjoy support from the TAG? Julian, you continue to bring this up as if we hadn't already discussed this: there are significant

Re: [whatwg] Helping people seaching for content filtered by license

2009-05-10 Thread Leif Halvard Silli
Ben Adida ben at adida.net Sun May 10 15:29:53 PDT 2009: Julian wrote: You are aware of MNot's Web Linking draft (http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-05.html), and the fact that it seems to enjoy support from the TAG? Julian, you continue to bring this up as

[whatwg] Asynchronous file upload

2009-05-10 Thread Samuel Santos
I was asked by a client if it was possible to implement something similar to the asynchronous file upload used on gmail using only standard web technologies. Looking at the gmail source code I can see that they use some flash magic. And by reading the HTML5 spec I could not find a way to

Re: [whatwg] Asynchronous file upload

2009-05-10 Thread Paweł Stradomski
W liście Samuel Santos z dnia poniedziałek 11 maja 2009: I was asked by a client if it was possible to implement something similar to the asynchronous file upload used on gmail using only standard web technologies. Looking at the gmail source code I can see that they use some flash magic.

Re: [whatwg] Asynchronous file upload

2009-05-10 Thread Ionut G. Stan
There appears to be some W3C activity regarding this problem. There is a draft about file uploads[1] which is edited by a Mozilla employee. This is not accidentally. As of Firefox 3 we have the possibility of Ajax file uploads. The API resembles pretty much the draft. Also, Safari 4 and

Re: [whatwg] video/audio feedback

2009-05-10 Thread David Singer
At 14:09 +1000 9/05/09, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: you might try loading, say, the one-page version of the HTML5 spec. from the WhatWG site...it takes quite a while. Happily Ian also provides a multi-page, but this is not always the case. That just confirms the problem and it's obviously