Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Dan Beam wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Dan Beam wrote: > >> > >> It'd be nice to avoid more attribute accessors (and encourage authors > >> to use getAttribute() instead), but if and have > >> them we should probably be consistent. > > > > Can you elaborate on the cost of a

Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Matthew Noorenberghe
Thanks Ian. - Original Message - > From: "Dan Beam" > > It'd be nice to avoid more attribute accessors (and encourage authors > to use getAttribute() instead), but if and have > them we should probably be consistent. At least in this case it's not just mirroring the attribute content s

Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Dan Beam
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Matthew Noorenberghe wrote: >> >> Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL >> attribute? Both and have it so there is currently >> inconsistency. > > Woops. Totally an oversight on my part. When

Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Matthew Noorenberghe wrote: > > Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL > attribute? Both and have it so there is currently > inconsistency. Woops. Totally an oversight on my part. When I added autocomplete to select recently, I forgot to fix

Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Dan Beam
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Noorenberghe wrote: > Hello, > > Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL > attribute[1]? Both [2] and [3] have it so there is currently > inconsistency. I discovered the same issue while working on Autofill/requestAutocomplet

Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Luis Farzati
I would like to insist on the datalist proposition I posted on this list (didn't caught any interest, though). A datalist for select would enable to have the contents of a select defined externally, and would also enable the reuse of this data. I don't see why datalist can be applied to an input

[whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete

2014-06-04 Thread Matthew Noorenberghe
Hello, Is it intentional that there is no HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete IDL attribute[1]? Both [2] and [3] have it so there is currently inconsistency. Thanks, Matthew Noorenberghe [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-select-element [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-ap

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Inline pronounce element (Tab Atkins Jr.)

2014-06-04 Thread Brett Zamir
On 6/5/2014 3:05 AM, whatwg-requ...@lists.whatwg.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Daniel Morris wrote: Hello, With existing assistive technology such as screen readers, and more recently the pervasiveness of new technologies such as Siri and Google Now to name two examples, I have