Re: [whatwg] need a way to set output format from StreamRecorder

2010-11-25 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com schrieb am Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:05:18 +1100: Can the decision for a file format be taken completely separately from the codec decision for the

[whatwg] Session Management

2010-11-25 Thread Dave Kok
Hi Subscribers, I am not sure if I am at the right mailing list for this. But I was wondering if it would be beneficial to have some kind of session control feature in the Web Applications spec. Currently the spec defines sessionStorage which I think is a great. It allows me to stop using

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Biju
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp 1. Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ? If sites rely on them, it is not possible to deprecate them. That is why I asked to deprecate, but not obsolete.. However, I melieve browsers are making these dialogs tab-modal. Yes I

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On 11/25/2010 08:30 AM, ext Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: Bijubijumaill...@gmail.com schrieb am Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:29:31 1. Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ? At present many web2.0 js libs are providing alternate [and cool looking] methods to achieve use cases where we need to use

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Biju
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Benjamin Poulain Although in my opinion, it would not make sense to deprecate without a good alternative for modal dialogs. But how many good sites use it. Only place in GMail is when user try to send mail with no text in Subject or Body field. Which they will

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 25.11.2010 13:21 schrieb Biju: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:41 AM, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Modal dialogues have a very special purpose, which works consistently across various browsers in that we can program in with javascript some very specific responses.

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-25 Thread Martin Janecke
Am 24.11.2010 um 23:59 schrieb Charles Pritchard: There is evidence that it will enhance usability for programmers who use it properly. Focus. -Charles Do you mean functionality rather than usability? As I understand this, an author of a web page has neither control of nor knowledge

Re: [whatwg] Javascript: URLs as element attributes

2010-11-25 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:15:45 +0100, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: For what it's worth, as I see it there are three possible behaviors for a javascript: URI (whether in an attribute value or elsewhere): 1) Don't run the script. 2) Run the script,

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Odin
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: Maybe, instead of your original suggestion, it might be worth thinking about making alert()/confirm()/prompt() dialogs styleable via CSS? Then those fancy JS lib dialogs would get obsolete, and we had the favour of both nice

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Biju
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Markus Ernst Maybe, instead of your original suggestion, it might be worth thinking about making alert()/confirm()/prompt() dialogs styleable via CSS? Then those fancy JS lib dialogs would get obsolete, and we had the favour of both nice look and support for

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Nikita Popov
On 25.11.2010 15:55, Biju wrote: The request I put is NOT about whether you can make it PRETTY looking or not. The question is about why we are allowing website have something which is MODAL (ie, both window modal and tab modal https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59314) In my opinion

Re: [whatwg] Clarification request on Server-Sent Events Last-Event-ID

2010-11-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:53:51 +0100, Nicholas Zakas nza...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Just a quick question about the Last-Event-ID header. The spec currently says: If the event source's last event ID string is not the empty string, then a Last-Event-ID HTTP header must be included with the

Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 80, Issue 47

2010-11-25 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 11/25/2010 8:19 AM, whatwg-requ...@lists.whatwg.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:18:49 +0100 From: Martin Janeckewhatwg@kaor.in To: whatwgwhatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 25.11.2010 17:12 schrieb Nikita Popov: On 25.11.2010 15:55, Biju wrote: The request I put is NOT about whether you can make it PRETTY looking or not. Sorry, that was how I understood point 1 your initial message. The question is about why we are allowing website have something which is

Re: [whatwg] Server-Sent Events parsing issue

2010-11-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:23:41 +0200, ATSUSHI TAKAYAMA taka.atsu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:41:59 +0200, ATSUSHI TAKAYAMA taka.atsu...@googlemail.com wrote: It's a minor error in the spec in the

Re: [whatwg] Server-Sent Events parsing issue

2010-11-25 Thread ATSUSHI TAKAYAMA
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:23:41 +0200, ATSUSHI TAKAYAMA taka.atsu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:41:59 +0200, ATSUSHI

Re: [whatwg] Canvas gradients color interpolation - change to premultiplied?

2010-11-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:09:40 +0100, Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Right now, canvas gradients interpolate their colors in non-premultiplied space; that is, the raw values of r, g, b, and a are

Re: [whatwg] Server-Sent Events parsing issue

2010-11-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:21:35 +0100, ATSUSHI TAKAYAMA taka.atsu...@googlemail.com wrote: I would say the simpler the rule is, the better. So a line without colon should be ignored. Also for the example in the spec; -a single data: line followed by an empty line should fire a message event with

Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 80, Issue 47 | previously: Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-25 Thread Martin Janecke
Am 25.11.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Charles Pritchard: (2) The browsers' build-in zoom function, which web page authors have no control or information about. They have information about it, in many browsers, and they receive events related to window.innerWidth and innerHeight. Well, an author

Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 80, Issue 47 | previously: Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-25 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 11/25/10 11:26 AM, Martin Janecke wrote: Am 25.11.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Charles Pritchard: (2) The browsers' build-in zoom function, which web page authors have no control or information about. They have information about it, in many browsers, and they receive events related

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2010-11-25 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Biju bijumaill...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ? At present many web2.0 js libs are providing alternate [and cool looking] methods to achieve use cases where we need to use alert(), confirm(), prompt(). So do we need those

Re: [whatwg] Canvas gradients color interpolation - change to premultiplied?

2010-11-25 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 11/25/10 1:59 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: They also pointed out we do support rgba() in SVG. The point is that the resulting behavior is not defined by the SVG spec. You could blow up the user's computer when using an rgba() color in SVG, and that would be as spec-compliant as anything

[whatwg] Reserving XRI and URN in registerProtocolHandler

2010-11-25 Thread Brett Zamir
I'd like to propose reserving two protocols for use with navigator.registerProtocolHandler: urn and xri (or possibly xriNN where NN is a version number). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Resource_Identifier for info on XRI (basically allows the equivalents of URN but with a

Re: [whatwg] Reserving XRI and URN in registerProtocolHandler

2010-11-25 Thread Brett Zamir
My apologies, I realized that there might be a modification needed to the HTML5 design of registerProtocolHandler, in that URN and XRI are better designed to work, in many cases, with registration to a specific namespace. For example, one application might only wish to handle urn:earthquakes