Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-17 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2008/12/16 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch I tried following this thread but I can't find what I would need to change in the spec to address the feedback so far. If this feedback relates to requests for the spec, please elaborate on exactly what it is that should change -- thanks! I thought later

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Giovanni Campagna wrote: I thought later on this topic and i arrived to conclusion that we cannot forbid or delete completely the HTML serialization, but there are no real use cases for this in server generated web pages. Even in case of user-generated content an

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-17 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2008/12/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch XML is neither more performant nor stricter than XML. The main differences are that XML has less user-friendly error recovery and supports arbitrary namespaces. Authors have clearly indicated that this is not compelling. Deprecating HTML thus seems like

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Giovanni Campagna wrote: I don't write browser code, honestly, but I think that XML parser don't need to check for attribute types (they're all quoted strings), XML parsers still have to check for quotes ( vs '), which takes no less time than HTML's checking for quotes

[whatwg] Phrasing semantics feedback omnibus

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Ozob the Great wrote: I am concerned about the existence of HTML5's var. This was brought to my attention during a technical debate on Wikipedia which amounted to: Where is use of var appropriate? The problem is that while var can be used to distinguish variables from

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jo�o Eiras wrote: What happened to the 3rd parameter (sFeatures) ? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536759.aspx This parameter is needed to specific the window features (size, position, ...). I couldn't find any features that I could justify specifying, so I

[whatwg] DOMStringMap named properties

2008-12-17 Thread Cameron McCormack
Continuing a conversation from IRC (http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20081217#l-187): Cameron McCormack: heycam Hixie, i think it would be better if DOMStringMap still had operations annotated with [NameGetter] etc., and then for me to introduce something in Web IDL to indicate

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-17 Thread João Eiras
On , Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Joao Eiras wrote: What happened to the 3rd parameter (sFeatures) ? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536759.aspx This parameter is needed to specific the window features (size, position, ...). I couldn't find any

[whatwg] Bug in HTML 5 validator?

2008-12-17 Thread Samuel Santos
I get this error message from the HTML 5 validator at http://validator.nu/: 1. *Error*: Attribute sizes not allowed on element linkhttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#nullat this point. From line 9, column 5; to line 9, column 62 http://validator.nu/#l9c62 itle↩

[whatwg] Yet another issue with the ImageData API

2008-12-17 Thread Oliver Hunt
So while playing around with some image filtering code using the Canvas ImageData APIs I realised that the APIs as currently designed make it difficult to do certain kinds of operation. The specific issue is that there is no direct mechanism to get a working/scratch ImageData object of

Re: [whatwg] Modal dialogs in HTML5

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, João Eiras wrote: While I myself don't find any decent use case for positioning the window, I think sizing the popup is a common and useful use case,besides controlling other aspected already covered by window.open(). Because the behavior for the features argument in

[whatwg] Media elements delaying the load event.

2008-12-17 Thread Robert O'Callahan
Currently HTML5 does not require media elements to delay the load event in any way. We certainly don't want to delay the load event until the entire resource has finished loading (as we do for images), but I think it would make sense to delay the load event until media elements that are loading

Re: [whatwg] Bug in HTML 5 validator?

2008-12-17 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Samuel Santos sama...@gmail.com, 2008-12-17 23:19 +: I get this error message from the HTML 5 validator at http://validator.nu/: *Error*: Attribute sizes not allowed on element linkhttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#nullat this point. You can raise validator.nu bugs

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-17 Thread Garrett Smith
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe so-called invalid HTML attributes are not the only solution, but in my opinion it is a simple way to embed metadata within any element. Imagine that such markup is then passed to a web application through

Re: [whatwg] Focus, html vs body and the activeElement property

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Hans S. Tømmerholt wrote: I'm reading this part: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#focus The intro states: When an element is focused, key events received by the document must be targeted at that element. There is always an element focused; in the