Re: [whatwg] di? Please?

2012-01-10 Thread Bruce Lawson
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:32:35 -, Hugh Guiney hugh.gui...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, the main reason for rejecting di was that it solves a problem that is allegedly CSS's job, but as an author who uses dls quite extensively, adding a grouping element would really make my life a

Re: [whatwg] di? Please?

2012-01-10 Thread Hugh Guiney
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Jordan Dobson jordandob...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like what you want is flex box. Have you looked at that yet? I don't know flexbox too well yet—how would one use it to create a columnar dl? From what I can tell though, it still wouldn't allow me to style dt/dd

Re: [whatwg] di? Please?

2012-01-10 Thread Sean Hogan
On 10/01/12 6:32 PM, Hugh Guiney wrote: As I understand it, the main reason for rejectingdi was that it solves a problem that is allegedly CSS's job, but as an author who usesdls quite extensively, adding a grouping element would really make my life a lot easier. I would prefer li for this

Re: [whatwg] should we add beforeload/afterload events to the web platform?

2012-01-10 Thread Darin Adler
On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: So in WebKit this event is only good for preventing _processing_ of the data in the page (e.g. preventing the script from executing when the target is a script) but not much use for preventing loads, even if some people seem to think that

Re: [whatwg] should we add beforeload/afterload events to the web platform?

2012-01-10 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 1/10/12 1:54 PM, Darin Adler wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: So in WebKit this event is only good for preventing _processing_ of the data in the page (e.g. preventing the script from executing when the target is ascript) but not much use for preventing loads, even

Re: [whatwg] should we add beforeload/afterload events to the web platform?

2012-01-10 Thread Darin Adler
On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 1/10/12 1:54 PM, Darin Adler wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: So in WebKit this event is only good for preventing _processing_ of the data in the page (e.g. preventing the script from executing when the target

Re: [whatwg] Spec with Implementation Details Highlighted?

2012-01-10 Thread Smylers
Ian Hickson writes: On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Smylers wrote: If it's something you'd find useful even in its incomplete state, I can add an alternative style sheet Yes, please. Roger. I've added an alternative style sheet set that has a rule for .impl sections for you. HTH. Thank you

Re: [whatwg] should we add beforeload/afterload events to the web platform?

2012-01-10 Thread Adam Barth
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 1/10/12 12:48 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Should 'beforeload'/'afterload' be explicitly specified and added to the web platform? Outside of extensions, what are the use cases?  Can they usefully labor under restrictions

Re: [whatwg] Session Management

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote: i'd like to reference a proposal i put forward in relation to expanding the functionality of forms which displays how http authentication could be implemented declaratively by html authors:

Re: [whatwg] Form controls inside a label but not labelled by it

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote: On 06/04/2011 12:57 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote: According to a comment of Hixie in [1], this case has been handled by the specs in 2004 but it doesn't seem to be any more and UA's have a very different

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Adam Barth wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov a...@webkit.org wrote: 28.02.2011, в 21:38, Ojan Vafai написал(а): FWIW, chromium is planning on experimenting with disallowing modal dialogs during the beforeunload/unload events.

Re: [whatwg] Comparing mouseover/mouseout, mouseenter/mouseleave and dragenter/dragleave

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Rob Crowther wrote: In Firefox 4 dragenter/dragleave are fired like mouseover/mouseout events - when you enter or leave the elements irrespective of whether the mouse pointer is entering a child element or leaving the element altogether. So I have two questions: 1.

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2012-01-10 Thread Adam Barth
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Adam Barth wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov a...@webkit.org wrote: 28.02.2011, в 21:38, Ojan Vafai написал(а): FWIW, chromium is planning on experimenting with disallowing modal

Re: [whatwg] typo in the spec of the selectionDirection attribute

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Futomi Hatano wrote: I've read the the spec of the selectionDirection attribute, and I've found a typo. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#dom-textarea/input-selectiondirection The spec says in the

Re: [whatwg] Interpretation issue: can section be used for extended paragraphs?

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Markus Ernst wrote: Am 14.06.2011 09:32 schrieb Ian Hickson: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Markus Ernst wrote: Instead of a new paragraph concept, there could also be a new concept for inline (resp. Phrasing Content) lists. The concept is actually not too new - for

Re: [whatwg] Idea: pseudo-classes :valid and :invalid for whole form?

2012-01-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Rafa�~B Mi�~Becki wrote: We already have required attribute and :valid plus :invalid classes, which are nice. However some may want to display additional warning when form wasn't filled correctly. Just some single warning, not specific field-related. Could you consider

Re: [whatwg] Idea: pseudo-classes :valid and :invalid for whole form?

2012-01-10 Thread Mounir Lamouri
On 01/11/2012 01:05 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Rafa�~B Mi�~Becki wrote: We already have required attribute and :valid plus :invalid classes, which are nice. However some may want to display additional warning when form wasn't filled correctly. Just some single warning, not

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2012-01-10 Thread Ojan Vafai
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Adam Barth wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov a...@webkit.org wrote: 28.02.2011, в 21:38, Ojan Vafai