Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Brett Zamir
On 7/28/2010 6:22 AM, Eduard Pascual wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Christoph Päper wrote: If you think about various syntax variants of wiki systems they’ve got one thing in common that makes them preferable to direct HTML input: easy links! (Local ones at least, whatever that mea

Re: [whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > > I've been working on a project which implements tiled scrolling... Today > from Ajaxian I saw the YUI 3 update, included in it is an implementation > of ScrollView. > > ScrollView is in some sense: overflow: pan; I recommend raising this in www

Re: [whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread fantasai
On 07/27/2010 07:17 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: Hey all, I've been working on a project which implements tiled scrolling... Today from Ajaxian I saw the YUI 3 update, included in it is an implementation of ScrollView. ScrollView is in some sense: overflow: pan; It's similar to overflow: scrol

[whatwg] Timed tracks for

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
I recently added to the HTML spec a mechanism by which external subtitles and captions can be added to videos in HTML. In designing this feature I went through hundreds and hundreds of e-mails, blogs, proposals, etc, trying to get all the key use cases that needed handling. (Replies to the WHA

Re: [whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Charles Pritchard schrieb am Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:17:20 -0700: > Android, iOS (Apple) and YUI are supporting this style of > overflow/scrolling. > SVG and other vector based viewers have often had panning options. Isn't panning a UA interface issue then? As I understand, it is just a different m

[whatwg] Taking a look at overflow: pan

2010-07-27 Thread Charles Pritchard
Hey all, I've been working on a project which implements tiled scrolling... Today from Ajaxian I saw the YUI 3 update, included in it is an implementation of ScrollView. ScrollView is in some sense: overflow: pan; It's similar to overflow: scroll, but instead of showing scroll bars, it allow

Re: [whatwg] Forms feedback

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > The proposal is to mandate that expose some sort of > "clear" widget in itself, which fires an appropriate event when the user > activates it. It already does -- the event is "input" and in the case you describe, it would fire with value == "". >

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for secure key-value data stores

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Nicholas Zakas wrote: > > > > It would be really nice if, in addition to having access to crypto > > functions, there was an area where I could stick data that would get > > encrypted automatically (and of course, where I

Re: [whatwg] Why [PutForwards=value] for htmlFor output element attribute ?

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > I'm wondering why the [PutForwards=value] extended attribute is needed > for the htmlFor output element attribute ? It's an attempt to make it work the same as 's htmlFor, while still supporting the new token-based API. On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Olli Pe

Re: [whatwg] idea for .zhtml format #html5 #web

2010-07-27 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: > > > > You can view the first webpage create on earth. We have saved our file > > from .txt .rtf .doc and now .odt. I love ODF format (.odt and other > > things) but there is a scope for .zhtml for

Re: [whatwg] Input color state: type mismatch

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 06:37, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, TAMURA, Kent wrote: > > > > > > I found type=number also had no typeMismatch. If a user wants to > > > type a negative value, he types '-' first. �This state should make > > > type

Re: [whatwg] HTMLCollection and HTMLAllCollection suggestion

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Perry Smith wrote: > > HTMLCollection has a namedItem method that returns either null or one > object. > > HTMLAllCollection has a namedItem method that returns either null, one > object, or a collection of objects. > > I'm a Rails freak and one of the things that they do wh

Re: [whatwg] Section 2.7.2.1 (HTMLCollection) question

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Perry Smith wrote: > From [1] > > The namedItem(key) method must return the first node in the collection that > > matches the following requirements: > > > > It is an a, applet, area, embed, form, frame, frameset, iframe, img, or > > object element with a name attribute equal t

Re: [whatwg] idea for .zhtml format #html5 #web

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: > > You can view the first webpage create on earth. We have saved our file > from .txt .rtf .doc and now .odt. I love ODF format (.odt and other > things) but there is a scope for .zhtml format for document and other > purpose. Basically the idea of

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r4949 - [giow] (0) The CSS rules need to do attribute value matching consistently across [...]

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, L. David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 2010-04-01 23:10 -0700, wha...@whatwg.org wrote: > > [giow] (0) The CSS rules need to do attribute value matching consistently > > across HTML and XHTML, despite the rules for interpreting author style > > sheets. > > Fixing http://www.w3.or

Re: [whatwg] resource selection algorithm and NETWORK_NO_SOURCE

2010-07-27 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:01:26 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer < > silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Philip Jägenstedt > >wrote: >> >> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:53:43 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer < >>> silviapfeiff...@g

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Christoph Päper wrote: > If you think about various syntax variants of wiki systems they’ve got one > thing in common that makes them preferable to direct HTML input: easy links! > (Local ones at least, whatever that means.) The best known example is > probably

[whatwg] JS "redirects" and session history

2010-07-27 Thread Mihai Parparita
I'm investigating a WebKit bug that occurs when navigating to hp.com and then pressing the back button. The full details are at https://webkit.org/b/42861, but briefly: onload hp.com sets window.location.hash to #Product. In Firefox, IE, and Chrome, this does not create a new session history entry

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Christoph Päper wrote: >> I wonder whether HTML could and should provide some sort of similar >> shortening, i.e. “Foo” or even, just maybe, “Foo”. I later came to the conclusion that this might be a nice thing for HTML editors, but not for browsers. If noth

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/27/10 4:10 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Does document.open() clear the cache entry? It creates a new one and unpins the old one. Note: the unpinning may or may not happen her depending on what session history does; I haven't double-checked this part. -Boris

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/27/10 3:00 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On each document.write() on a document.open()ed document, Gecko appends the written string to a cache entry (at the method call time--not at the tokenization time--which makes a difference of the document loads external scripts that also call document.write(

Re: [whatwg] Typo on Selection API

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Hajime Morita wrote: > > There is a typo on selection API name: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#selection > >selection . collapsed(parentNode, offset) > >Replaces the selection with an empty one at the given position. > >Throws a WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR except

Re: [whatwg] Character encoding of document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Spec change request: Please change the spec to say that document.open() > sets the document's character encoding to UTF-8 (There was also a lot of research on the topic, that I haven't quoted here, because frankly it just showed a complete lack of c

Re: [whatwg] Simple Links

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Christoph P�per wrote: > > If you think about various syntax variants of wiki systems they�ve got > one thing in common that makes them preferable to direct HTML input: > easy links! (Local ones at least, whatever that means.) The best known > example is probably double squa

Re: [whatwg] location.reload() on document.open()ed documents

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > The spec says about location.reload(): > > "Navigate the browsing context to the document's current address with > replacement enabled. The source browsing context must be the browsing > context being navigated." > > It appears that this is what WebK

Re: [whatwg] tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Roger H�gensen wrote: > > On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an > article in my journal as the meta description, and write one up for > other pages, usually replicating some of the content. > > I'm both looking for and want a solution to avoi

Re: [whatwg] Timed tracks for

2010-07-27 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:40:32 +0200, Sam Dutton wrote: >> The addCueRange() API has been removed and replaced with a feature based on the subtitle mechanism. << I'm not sure what this means -- are you referring to timed track cues? This was an older API. You can find it in older W3C drafts or

Re: [whatwg] Timed tracks for

2010-07-27 Thread Sam Dutton
This has huge potential -- congratulations on such a clear and simple spec. I particularly like the idea of the metadata kind attribute and the ability in WebSRT to include arbitrary metadata. >> The addCueRange() API has been removed and replaced with a feature based on the subtitle mechanism.

Re: [whatwg] Constraint validation for maxlength

2010-07-27 Thread timeless
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > I suppose, like @required, as long as it doesn't break too many > websites, we can count on evangelism teams and user feedbacks to fix > there websites. Excuse me, but I've watched Evangelism struggle and fail for 10 years. There are a nu

Re: [whatwg] resource selection algorithm and NETWORK_NO_SOURCE

2010-07-27 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:01:26 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:53:43 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer < silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Philip Jägenstedt >wrote: var v