Re: [whatwg] Proposal in supporting the writing of "Arabizi"

2011-12-01 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mark Callow wrote: > > As Sergiusz Wolicki pointed the OP is requesting an IME and IMEs already > exist for several languages. The corollary of this is that hooks for > IMEs exist in all major operating systems. As Sergiusz also pointed out, > users will want this f

Re: [whatwg] Proposal in supporting the writing of "Arabizi"

2011-12-01 Thread Mark Callow
I think what is being requested by the OP is very very different from the things being requested in the W3C bugs linked from the below referenced wiki page (which seem like good ideas, but please ensure that '+' can be entered in phone numbers). As Sergiusz Wolicki pointed the OP is requesting an

Re: [whatwg] WebVTT feedback (and some other feedback that snuck in)

2011-12-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > But it doesn't have to, since HTML does this with @lang. > > HTML doesn't do any font selection or word wrapping. > > Per the HTML and CSS specs, lang="" has no effect on rendering. > Huh? I'm confused: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/

Re: [whatwg] API design restrictions due to barewords in onxxx="" attributes

2011-12-01 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/1/11 2:12 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: It would break existing pages that use expandos on elements or documents via barewords in on* attributes. Isn't that the point of "look at element's named properties (if it has any)" and "look at el

Re: [whatwg] Canvas toDataURL and device dpi resolution

2011-12-01 Thread Edward O'Connor
John Knottenbelt wrote: > How should the data url returned by toDataURL be sized in the case of > a high device dpi resolution system? E.g. where the canvas's backing > store horizontal and vertical dimensions are some multiple of the > specified width and height in CSS pixels. In the case of get

Re: [whatwg] API design restrictions due to barewords in onxxx="" attributes

2011-12-01 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > It would break existing pages that use expandos on elements or documents via > barewords in on* attributes. Isn't that the point of "look at element's named properties (if it has any)" and "look at element's form's named properties (if it h

Re: [whatwg] Proposal in supporting the writing of "Arabizi"

2011-12-01 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Sami Eljabali wrote: > Hello, I apologize if this an incorrect forum to propose new html features > in which case you may disregard this email, however should you know a more > appropriate forum then please let me know, else I ask you to please entertain > this emai

Re: [whatwg] Default encoding to UTF-8?

2011-12-01 Thread Brett Zamir
On 12/1/2011 2:00 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Thursday 2011-12-01 14:37 +0900, Mark Callow wrote: On 01/12/2011 11:29, L. David Baron wrote: The default varies by localization (and within that potentially by platform), and unfortunately that variation does matter. In my experience this is wha

Re: [whatwg] Proposal in supporting the writing of "Arabizi"

2011-12-01 Thread Sergiusz Wolicki
What you are proposing is not a HTML feature but an O/S- or browser-specific functionality equivalent to East Asian IMEs. East Asian IMEs (input method editors = complex keyboard processors), which often use a similar phonetic method to enter ideographic or syllabic characters, can be activated by

Re: [whatwg] Built-in image sprite support in HTML5

2011-12-01 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, David Weitzman wrote: > Reviving an old question here: is there anything in current or > upcoming web specs that should give me hope that I will eventually see > a day when sprites are either unnecessary at a protocol level or > easily supported in tags? The thre

Re: [whatwg] Built-in image sprite support in HTML5

2011-12-01 Thread David Weitzman
Reviving an old question here: is there anything in current or upcoming web specs that should give me hope that I will eventually see a day when sprites are either unnecessary at a protocol level or easily supported in tags? On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25

Re: [whatwg] Default encoding to UTF-8?

2011-12-01 Thread Sergiusz Wolicki
I have read section 4.2.5.5 of the WHATWG HTML spec and I think it is sufficient. It requires that any non-US-ASCII document has an explicit character encoding declaration. It also recommends UTF-8 for all new documents and for authoring tools' default encoding. Therefore, any document conforming

[whatwg] Canvas toDataURL and device dpi resolution

2011-12-01 Thread John Knottenbelt
How should the data url returned by toDataURL be sized in the case of a high device dpi resolution system? E.g. where the canvas's backing store horizontal and vertical dimensions are some multiple of the specified width and height in CSS pixels. The test http://philip.html5.org/tests/canvas/suit

Re: [whatwg] Fixing undo on the Web - UndoManager and Transaction

2011-12-01 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
More updates! http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager.html Summary of changes on Dec 1st, 2011: - UndoManager's item(n) now always returns an array - Changes to DOMTransaction - apply no longer has isReapply argument. - apply, reapply, unapply on DOMTransaction has been renamed to

[whatwg] Proposal in supporting the writing of "Arabizi"

2011-12-01 Thread Sami Eljabali
Hello, I apologize if this an incorrect forum to propose new html features in which case you may disregard this email, however should you know a more appropriate forum then please let me know, else I ask you to please entertain this email. :) There's a need for phonetic based keyboard support for