Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Matthew Raymond
Anne van Kesteren wrote: [...] I don't see what baring that has on syntax highlighting, though. Highlighting omissions or errors for example... Do you have an example of this? What would such highlighting look like for text editing? I'm not sure I see the use case here. [...] I don't

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
L. David Baron wrote: The original use case, as I understand it, was roughly authors want to disable spell checking on some textareas. Authors should not have such control. Spell checking is a user agent feature for the *user* and the UA should allow the user to turn it on or off whenever

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Maybe features like spellckeching, syntax highlighting and so on should be controlled via CSS? No, spell checking is a user agent feature that should be controlled by the UA and the user. Authors should have no explicit control over it. Besides, spell checking *is

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:11:39 +0700, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe features like spellckeching, syntax highlighting and so on should be controlled via CSS? No, spell checking is a user agent feature that should be controlled by the UA and the user. Authors should have no

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Quoting Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One can also say that authors should not have explicit control over whether hyperlinks are underlined or not. The difference is that underlining is presentation, spell checking is not. The functionality of a link cannot be changed with CSS,

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:16 +0700, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One can also say that authors should not have explicit control over whether hyperlinks are underlined or not. The difference is that underlining is presentation, spell checking is not. The

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:29:39 +0700, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One can also say that authors should not have explicit control over whether hyperlinks are underlined or not. The difference is that underlining is presentation, spell checking is not. The functionality of

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Matthew Raymond
Anne van Kesteren wrote: Quoting Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If, however, we're really just talking about adding words to the UA dictionary temporarily and for a specific site, couldn't we just do that with meta using the same format as we do with keywords? | meta name=vocabulary

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-11 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
On 10 Jun 2006, at 10:1AM, White Lynx wrote: Oistein E. Andersen wrote: traditional French typographical conventions for mathematics require lowercase variables in italic, but uppercase ones in roman. Do we need extra values like text-transform:french-italic; and french-bold-italic; that would

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, White Lynx wrote: Agree. Once conceptual issues will be resolved and WHATWG will clarify its position regarding math markup, we can return to naming conventions and if majority prefer brief element names, ISO 12083 element names will be replaced with shorter ones.

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-11 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] this may be difficult to achieve in practice, because TeX conversors reading TeX sources are unable to provide correct MathML markup for prescripts. Conversion to MathML is obviously more difficult because the base has to be found and encoded explicitly. Still, I do _not_ say

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Matthew Raymond
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:34:00 +0700, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enabling or disabling spell checking doesn't change the functionality of an input. While the core functionality of allowing the user to enter text isn't changed, I'd consider spell

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-11 Thread Matthew Raymond
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:29:39 +0700, Anne van Kesteren I guess it looks like it would fit in CSS because the functionality is not strictly needed, but I'm unsure if it's really just presentation... Ok, it's not just presentation. It's about behavior, too. But I