[whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Greg Houston
This may just be another one of my crazy ideas, but web applications are increasingly using resizable elements such as resizable windows, resizable form columns, image croppers and so forth. Currently this requires injecting one or more handles into the element you wish to resize and absolutely

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-20 Thread Bill Mason
Smylers wrote: Bill Mason writes: Simon Pieters wrote: For instance it would be reasonable to use two images -- a filled star and an unfilled star -- to represent a rating of something: p Rating: img src=1 img src=1 img src=1 img src=0 img src=0 /p You'd want the text version to

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:40:20 +0200, Greg Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I realize this may not be feasible, but thought I would throw the idea out there. Is this what you're looking for: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize ? While on the topic of borders, it

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-20 Thread Shannon
What about this as a possible solution? img src=part1.png altgroup=rating img src=part2.png altgroup=rating img src=part3.png altgroup=rating altgroup id=rating value=3/5 I don't think this would raise any serious implementation issues as the logic is quite simple; If all elements in an

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Martin Atkins
Greg Houston wrote: While on the topic of borders, it would also be nice if there was a CSS property for their alignment, outside as is the current default, and inside. Pushing my luck, I would like to see the same options for the strokes in the canvas element with the addition of center which

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Greg Houston
Hi Anne, Thanks. I need to read through the various CSS3 specs. On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this what you're looking for: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize This fulfills the basic idea, though the spec seems to leave

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:58:35 +0200, Greg Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize This fulfills the basic idea, though the spec seems to leave the resize mechanism up to the imaginations of the UAs. All it says is that the resize mechanism is

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-20 Thread Bill Mason
Shannon wrote: What about this as a possible solution? img src=part1.png altgroup=rating img src=part2.png altgroup=rating img src=part3.png altgroup=rating altgroup id=rating value=3/5 I don't think this would raise any serious implementation issues as the logic is quite simple; If all

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-20 Thread Smylers
Shannon writes: What about this as a possible solution? img src=part1.png altgroup=rating img src=part2.png altgroup=rating img src=part3.png altgroup=rating altgroup id=rating value=3/5 I don't think this would raise any serious implementation issues as the logic is quite simple;

[whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-20 Thread Ian Hickson
HTML5 had a complex mechanism for cross-references using dfn, abbr, i, and so forth. I've removed it. It really didn't add much compared to a href= other than a whole lot of complexity, and there was very little demand for it really. I've also made the title= attribute on abbr required, and

Re: [whatwg] Element borders as resizable handles

2008-04-20 Thread Greg Houston
Regarding a couple of the new UI elements in HTML5, it is not clear to me from the spec if the meter and progress elements are purely UA designed elements or if the developer has control over their styling. You can probably style them using XBL in due course. They are similar to form

[whatwg] meter feedback

2008-04-20 Thread Ian Hickson
Summary: no changes made. If anyone has a better idea for a name for the element, let me know. meter is a little confusing to people, but gauge, which would be better, is just too hard to type for people. On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, David Latapie wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:39:54 +0100, Anne van

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Just a few issues regarding the use of abbr and dfn elements. *The abbr Element's title Attribute* I think the title attribute should also be allowed to be omitted from the abbr element if there is another abbr element with a title

Re: [whatwg] ALT and equivalent representation

2008-04-20 Thread Shannon
Shannon wrote: What about this as a possible solution? img src=part1.png altgroup=rating img src=part2.png altgroup=rating img src=part3.png altgroup=rating altgroup id=rating value=3/5 I don't think this would raise any serious implementation issues as the logic is quite simple; Bill

Re: [whatwg] text/html for html and xhtml

2008-04-20 Thread Boris Zbarsky
William F Hammond wrote: 1. Many search engines appear not to look at application/xhtml+xml. That seems like a much simpler thing to fix in search engines than in the specification and UAs, to be honest. I don't see this as a compelling reason to add complexity to the parsing model. 2.