Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: Wording of license link type is too narrow

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Dave Hodder wrote: The scope of the license link type in section 4.12.3 seems too narrow to me. It's presently described like this: Indicates that the current document is covered by the copyright license described by the referenced document. I think the

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: Wording of license link type is too narrow

2008-05-28 Thread Arne Johannessen
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Dave Hodder wrote: The scope of the license link type in section 4.12.3 seems too narrow to me. It's presently described like this: Indicates that the current document is covered by the copyright license described by the referenced document. I

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Shannon wrote: With the capabilities of modern browsers it seems to me that a specific tag for hyperlinks is no longer required or useful and could be depreciated with a more versatile global link attribute. This has been proposed several times but several browser

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: Wording of license link type is too narrow

2008-05-28 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The correct markup for a link trademark license would be A HREF=tmlic.html /trade;/A A trademark license does not apply to a Web page. It may of course apply to the product described on the page but such information is meaningless to HTML spiders and publishing tools; information an

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: Wording of license link type is too narrow

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Arne Johannessen wrote: In particular, we don't want people to use rel=license to point to trademark licenses or patent licenses that _aren't_ copyright licenses. Why not, what's the downside? It dilutes the point of the feature. The idea is to provide a way for

[whatwg] The sizes= attribute for rel=icon

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Martin Atkins wrote: That isn't to say that media queries shouldn't be allowed, though, and if people use them then they should work, if the UA supports them. Would it not be better to explitly say that media queries are not appropriate for this, for

Re: [whatwg] The sizes= attribute for rel=icon

2008-05-28 Thread Martin Atkins
Ian Hickson wrote: In general I agree that attributes are not a scarce resource, but if you need to add use-specific attributes to a supposedly-generic element I think that indicates that the generic element is inappropriate for the use-case. I disagree. Look at input, for instance. I

Re: [whatwg] The sizes= attribute for rel=icon

2008-05-28 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Wed, 28 May 2008 13:07:50 +0100, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid that this could cause trouble (every visitor downloading icon that's 20–300 times larger than typical favicon). Why not use rel=application-icon or rel=appicon? I don't understand the question. link rel=icon

[whatwg] Online whitelist problem

2008-05-28 Thread Anders Carlsson
Hi, one problem with the online whitelist in cache manifest files is that it matches on whole URLs only. This makes embedding for example Google Maps into a web app difficult, since you want to allow urls like