Re: [whatwg] Forcing orientation in content

2013-07-13 Thread Tobie Langel
On Friday, July 12, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, David Bruant wrote: Currently working on a web project where tablet support (iPad especially) is important, I'm facing a need which apparently the platform doesn't support. I would need to lock the screen in

Re: [whatwg] Script preloading

2013-07-13 Thread Bruno Racineux
Nobody should be arguing about 'pet projects' or 'ignorance' here, it's really uncalled for. Characterizing strong counter arguments or strong views as 'attacks' is also unnecessary. May I remind you Alex that this thread's request for feedback started with two simple questions: Would something

Re: [whatwg] Script preloading

2013-07-13 Thread Andy Davies
On 12 July 2013 01:25, Bruno Racineux br...@hexanet.net wrote: On browser preloading: There seems to an inherent conflict between 'indiscriminate' Pre-parsers/ PreloadScanner and responsive design for mobile. Responsive designs mostly implies that everything needed for a full screen desktop

Re: [whatwg] HTML: A DOM attribute that returns the language of a node

2013-07-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Peter Occil wrote: Well, my true hope is that such a DOM attribute like language will be specified in the HTML or DOM spec. Especially since it's not currently possible to get the language of a node through JavaScript methods alone. What's the use case for having this

Re: [whatwg] HTML: A DOM attribute that returns the language of a node

2013-07-13 Thread Peter Occil
There are several use cases: - Localization of form controls in languages where browser support is lacking, such as some minor languages. - Localization of HTML elements, especially date formatting of span and div elements in the page's default language, see especially [1]. When it comes to