[whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
One of the use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in over the past few months was the following: USE CASE: Remove the need for feeds to restate the content of HTML pages (i.e. replace Atom with HTML). SCENARIOS: * Paul maintains a blog and wishes to write his blog in such a

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 22, 2009, at 09:01, Ian Hickson wrote: USE CASE: Remove the need for feeds to restate the content of HTML pages (i.e. replace Atom with HTML). Did you do some kind of Is this Good for the Web? analysis on this one? That is, do things get better if there's yet another feed

[whatwg] Use cases for which I haven't been able to find solutions

2009-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
The remaining use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in over the past few months were the following: USE CASE: Web browsers should be able to help users find information related to the items discussed by the page that they are looking at. SCENARIOS: * Finding more

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 09:01, Ian Hickson wrote: USE CASE: Remove the need for feeds to restate the content of HTML pages (i.e. replace Atom with HTML). Did you do some kind of Is this Good for the Web? analysis on this one? That is, do

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Dan Brickley
On 22/5/09 09:21, Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009, Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 09:01, Ian Hickson wrote: USE CASE: Remove the need for feeds to restate the content of HTML pages (i.e. replace Atom with HTML). Did you do some kind of Is this Good for the Web? analysis

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 22/05/2009 08:21, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: As far as I can tell, things get better if the feed format and the default output format are the same, yes. Generally, redundant information has tended to lead to problems. Can you point to examples of this in relation to the use of feeds

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 22/05/2009 08:21, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: As far as I can tell, things get better if the feed format and the default output format are the same, yes. Generally, redundant information has tended to lead to problems. Can you point to examples of this in relation to the use of feeds

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009, Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 09:01, Ian Hickson wrote:   USE CASE: Remove the need for feeds to restate the content of HTML pages   (i.e. replace Atom with HTML). Did you do some kind of Is

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Smylers
Adrian Sutton writes: On 22/05/2009 08:21, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: As far as I can tell, things get better if the feed format and the default output format are the same, yes. Generally, redundant information has tended to lead to problems. Can you point to examples of this in

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Toby Inkster
Eduard Pascual wrote: For manually authored pages and feeds things would be different; but are there really a significant ammount of such cases out there? I can't say I have seen the entire web (who can?), but among what I have seen, I have never encountered any hand authored feed, except for

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 22/05/2009 11:36, Toby Inkster m...@tobyinkster.co.uk wrote: Surely this proves the need for a way of extracting feeds from HTML? You never see manually written feeds because people can't be bothered to manually write feeds. So the people who manually author HTML simply don't bother

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Brett Zamir
I also wonder if feeds being accessible in HTML might give rise, as with stylesheets and scripts contained in the head (convenient as those can be too), to excessive bandwidth, as agents repeatedly request updates to a whole HTML page containing a lot of other data. (If we had external

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Dan Brickley
On 22/5/09 12:36, Toby Inkster wrote: Eduard Pascual wrote: For manually authored pages and feeds things would be different; but are there really a significant ammount of such cases out there? I can't say I have seen the entire web (who can?), but among what I have seen, I have never

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Philip Taylor
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Adrian Sutton adrian.sut...@ephox.com wrote: [...] Can anyone point to examples where the content is entirely hand crafted and a feed would actually make sense? Perhaps a page like http://philip.html5.org/data.html - people might want to subscribe in their

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 22/05/2009 13:32, Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps a page like http://philip.html5.org/data.html - people might want to subscribe in their feed reader to see all the exciting updates, and the markup is all hand-written. It's not at all like a blog, but maybe it's data

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 22/05/2009 13:32, Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps a page like http://philip.html5.org/data.html - people might want to subscribe in their feed reader to see all the exciting updates, and the markup is all hand-written. It's not at all like a blog, but maybe it's data

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Philip Taylor
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Adrian Sutton adrian.sut...@ephox.com wrote: On 22/05/2009 13:32, Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps a page like http://philip.html5.org/data.html - people might want to subscribe in their feed reader to see all the exciting updates, and the

[whatwg] page refresh and resubmitting POST state

2009-05-22 Thread Mike Wilson
I can see some usefulness for adding a couple of subjects to the HTML5 spec: - how browsers should handle page refresh, in particular for pages received through POST (= do you want to resubmit?) - potentially add constructs to help users avoid the above resubmit question (this could f ex be

Re: [whatwg] A Selector-based metadata proposal (was: Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for)

2009-05-22 Thread Toby Inkster
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:26 +0200, Eduard Pascual wrote: Are you calling the DOM Consistency Principle a theoretical or aesthetic argument? Certainly not -- DOM consistency is a great idea. But given that the HTML5 spec defines how the DOM is built, there's a very simple solution to that --

Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-22 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
Just to put a fine point on this ... On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bruce D'Arcus bdar...@gmail.com wrote: ... Or consider the user or developer who can't figure out how to represent their data in bibtex-in-html5 because its designers simply didn't consider it. In that case, people go

Re: [whatwg] A Selector-based metadata proposal

2009-05-22 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 22 May 2009 16:44:32 +0200, Toby Inkster m...@tobyinkster.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:26 +0200, Eduard Pascual wrote: Are you calling the DOM Consistency Principle a theoretical or aesthetic argument? Certainly not -- DOM consistency is a great idea. But given that the

Re: [whatwg] A Selector-based metadata proposal (was: Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for)

2009-05-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 22, 2009, at 17:44, Toby Inkster wrote: But given that the HTML5 spec defines how the DOM is built, there's a very simple solution to that -- HTML5 could simply mandate that: html xmlns:foo=http://foo.example.com/; generates an identical DOM representation in both XHTML5 and

Re: [whatwg] page refresh and resubmitting POST state

2009-05-22 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: - potentially add constructs to help users avoid the above  resubmit question (this could f ex be through providing  some support for PRG = Post-Redirect-Get, or other) This is already supported. If you use a 302 or 303

Re: [whatwg] page refresh and resubmitting POST state

2009-05-22 Thread Mike Wilson
Thanks for expanding on my previous mail, Jonas, but I was assuming that everyone on this list was aware of the PRG pattern and its existing support in browsers. With current technology there are limitations to the usefulness of PRG (f ex in multi-window/tab scenarios), so I am asking if it is

Re: [whatwg] page refresh and resubmitting POST state

2009-05-22 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 22 May 2009 21:48:28 +0100, Mike Wilson mike...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for expanding on my previous mail, Jonas, but I was assuming that everyone on this list was aware of the PRG pattern and its existing support in browsers. With current technology there are limitations to the

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:41:43 +0100, Eduard Pascual herenva...@gmail.com wrote: For manually authored pages and feeds things would be different; but are there really a significant ammount of such cases out there? I can't say I have seen the entire web (who can?), but among what I have seen, I

[whatwg] Overriding functions in DOM Storage

2009-05-22 Thread Jeremy Orlow
What is the behavior of the following supposed to be? window.sessionStorage.removeItem = function(x) { alert(Wait, this works?); }; window.sessionStorage.removeItem('blah'); alert(typeof window.sessionStorage.removeItem); Safari shows 2 alerts, and the second one says 'function'. IE8 says object

Re: [whatwg] Removing the need for separate feeds

2009-05-22 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:01:51 +0100, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: It doesn't collect the blogroll or the blog post tags yet, mostly because I'm not sure how to do that. Any suggestions of improvements are naturally welcome. There's hAtom that solves this problem already, and appears to

Re: [whatwg] Overriding functions in DOM Storage

2009-05-22 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On May 22, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: What is the behavior of the following supposed to be? window.sessionStorage.removeItem = function(x) { alert(Wait, this works?); }; window.sessionStorage.removeItem('blah'); alert(typeof window.sessionStorage.removeItem); Safari shows 2