Re: [whatwg] [WA1] is semantic

2005-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
ther documents and expect it to work, and also for consistency with and -- what do you think? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] comments on Web Forms 2.0

2005-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
ard before duplicating > avenues for the same information. type=month: Think about entering credit card expiry dates. type=week: This is a very frequently used data type in European industry. While it is true that you could ask someone to use a type="datetime" control to state the

Re: [whatwg] nested forms: spec doesn't quite describe current HTML UA behaviour

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
; This doesn't describe UA behaviour according to my test cases. What > current UAs do is to ignore nested *start* tags. They do not > close the outer form before the start tag of the inner form, but they > do close it on the end tag of the inner form. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: [whatwg] more on nested forms

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
. Why would it? Submitting a form only submits elements that are associated with the form; i2 is not associated with the outer form. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - select element

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
recommend simply setting the value of the back to a neutral default in onblur="", or something along those lines. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] Error in Example, Section: Creating an outline

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
me == 'body' || /*n.localName == 'blockquote' ||*/ >n.localName == 'section' || n.localName == 'navigation' || >... > > 'navigation' should be 'nav' instead. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Correction for Example

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
e that its contents are a term being defined, but this can be > indicated using the dfn element." Fixed as suggested. There have been many other editorial comments on the WA1 draft in particular on the semantics section (the elements); they have all been noted and will be dealt wit

Re: [whatwg] Minor Error in Event Stream Format pseudo-BNF

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > The pseudo-BNF description for the server sent events stream contains the > following: > > ::= [ | | ]* > >::= ':' > > I assume should be instead. Oops yep, fixed. Thanks. --

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - repetition model control

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
model control, all being > prefixed with 'template-' (See ). ". I've added a note with such a link. I agree with you that there would be benefit in having the names more specific, but I think people would quickly get tired of typing it out all the time. (This is the sam

Re: [whatwg] ECMAScript extensions in Web Applications

2005-10-15 Thread Ian Hickson
eous practice optional, not mandatory. And > deprecated from the start. I'm not really sure what you're proposing. Are you suggesting that any Function object should have a .handleEvent() method in addition to its .call() method and its .prototype

Re: [whatwg] ECMAScript extensions in Web Applications

2005-10-15 Thread Ian Hickson
terface > act like functions. I don't know if current browsers do this. Well, the EventTarget interfaces are defined as taking EventListeners. So from another language, if it isn't null, you can call .handleEvent() on them. I don't see how else to define it. Suggest

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - select element

2005-10-16 Thread Ian Hickson
r this too, tri-state checkboxes. This currently isn't supported by HTML.) It's pretty bad UI for a select to do something if you reselect the current selection, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] Quick thoughts on menus.

2005-10-16 Thread Ian Hickson
utting down on script is always good if it is replaced by something simpler.) * Replicate every feature of every OS in the first version. * Having arbitrary form controls in menus. * Introducing no new elements. It's ok to introduce new elements. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-16 Thread Ian Hickson
ending HTTP packets at SMTP and FTP ports. By having a very specific handshake protocol that servers must obey before the client will allow arbitrary data out, we avoid the possibility of servers getting hijacked in this way. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,&#x

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 8.1. Relation to the CSS3 User Interface module

2005-10-20 Thread Ian Hickson
27;html:not(:default){background:lime}' really give a green background in > HTML documents? (But perhaps this is something for CSS3 to clarify.) > (This question seems to apply to other pseudo-classes as well.) If :checked doesn't match, :not(:checked) matches, this seems unambiguous.

[whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
ight miss it if I did that). Thoughts? Is it evil? http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ping -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
sing the old method of redirects, with the new user agents (that support ping) having a better UI. You could also do the same in reverse with slightly more complicated JS if you wanted to default to the href="" method for non-JS browsers (which would make sense until ping="" support is widespread). Thanks for your input! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
ay users can always just use the URI and ignore the redirect, they could do that with href="" ping="". In practice very few users will change that so it won't be a big deal. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
t > sites from contacting other locations when I click a link" is the best I > can manage and it's wildly wrong since there are so many other ways a > site could do this). The same checkbox that affects whether Referer: headers are sent could trigger this. The label

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
t least some interest in it). I agree that if something better comes along in the future we should use that instead! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
ut the user's browser > also "pings" -- makes an hidden HTTP GET -request - of the 2 URI's: > http://advertising-network.dom/ping-me and > http://publishers-site.dom/ping-me . That's exactly what is intended. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
take one example at random, the pref would be a hidden pref made visible by extensions that focus on this kind of thing (assuming it is the same as the Referer: header pref). Different browsers can handle this in different ways, that's how browsers compete.

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
otification and linking to be separate. In usage, > they want them to be linked. They seem to me to be mutually exclusive. In my experience, "they" are ok with it being separate, as it conveys a number of benefits to the user. (I would consider my source on this matter reasona

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Hickson
someone money. Hence POST. (This is another advantage of ping over redirects, come to think of it.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Hickson
espace must also not be trimmed from any other attributes > # (e.g. the value attribute). > > Could you add a note that there is some form of normalization applied to > these attributes in XML documents as described here: > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize>. This co

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Hickson
gt; behaviour is harder. It's actually easier to do that today than with ping="". You just put a capture listener on the root element, and for every click targetted at a link, you dispatch a sync XMLHttpRequest before letting the event's default action take place. That's

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Hickson
the user agent can optimise the user experience. ...is what I have now. If someone can find a better way of phrasing that please let me know. It's what I mean, but it sounds kooky. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-24 Thread Ian Hickson
le origin and a single destination for a link. > > Did I get it wrong? Wouldn't it be a possibility?What do you think? Could you show us an example of how that would work? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL h

Re: [whatwg] WF 2: section 8.2 error

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, ROBO Design wrote: > > I have found an error in the WF 2 specification, section 8.2 Relation to CSS > selectors [1]. Oops. Thanks. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Christian Schmidt wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > The problem at the moment is that the redirect mechanism obscures the > > eventual target URI. > > One backwards-compatible way (that doesn't require scripting) to solve > this problem w

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
"improve", because that's > what actually happends (improvement, not optimisation). Improvement over what? I've used your text for now. I'm still looking for something better. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL h

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > # so that if the value content attribute is not specified then > > > # the value DOM attribute (and the value used for submission > > > # when the controls are chec

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't understand any of the above. Could you explain it again? I really > > don't know what you are trying to say. > > You should probably try harder

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You should probably try harder ;-) Anyway, setting |value=""| on a form > > > control should not result in the DOM attribute value being "on". It > &

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > # A control is said to have no value selected if its value is the > > > # empty string. > > > > > > "empty string" was the bit I was falling o

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - repetition model control

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
nd reviewing all of the 3 suggestions ... first was the > best: type="template-add". The second one requires less typing for web > developers. Each suggestion has its weakness and strength. > > As a conclusion, any of the 3 above would be better than what's > current

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - repetition model control

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
ion attribute. (It would have to be something other than action="", since we're using that already.) This is one idea, and I have considered it in the past. But it just seems so semantically wrong that I can't bring myself to put it in the spec. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Michael Gratton wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 05:27 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > > It's not intended to use port 80 only; where does it say that? That's > > an error. It is intended to be usable on ports 80, 443, and anything > > greater

Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
s can only be established to hosts that are expecting connections from the page's domain, which massively minimises the risk. (At the moment, it isn't possible to connect to remote hosts from other domains anyway, but I imagine we'll relax this

Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
o implement correct handling of everything _other_ than Upgrade: as well, even if it is to return "Not Supported" each time. You have to parse headers, etc. Nobody is going to actually bother to correctly implement that, and if they don't, what's the point in

Re: [whatwg] Pattern Hint

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > >>My argument isn't that |title| can't contain pattern hints. What I > >>object to is designing HTML5 so that |title| is the only thing that

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
not extending HTTP. Let's not bite off more than we can chew! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg]

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
his whole issue we could just use a totally new HTTP > method (other than "GET" or "POST"). Maybe "PING". I think we'll draw the line at extending HTTP. We're in hot enough water extending HTML and the DOM... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - repetition model control

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > > I think it's the "They are defined are part of" bit :) Ohh, indeed, that is bad. I was confused by the bigger suggested change and missed that part. *fixes* -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,-

Re: [whatwg] WA 1.0 and WF 2

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
t not least, please let us know about the advantages of using > lang="en-GB-hixie". I'm really curious about the reason for doing so. Do > you recommend I use lang="en-robodesign" (and "ro-robodesign") on my > site :) ? As othe

Re: [whatwg] WA 1.0 and WF 2

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Simon Pieters wrote: > > I would prefer if the spec was gzipped In theory this should be happening already. The server supports gzip transfer encoding. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/

Re: [whatwg] smsto: and sms:

2005-10-28 Thread Ian Hickson
or has it not been > started? Does it need a volunteer? I have no idea. You may wish to try asking the OMA or IETF groups. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-10-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > # A control is said to have no value selected if its value is the > > > > > # empty string. > > > > Apparently... but I don't see how it could

Re: [whatwg] [html5] html:style parsing

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > For XML documents not all elements are ignored. Elements with known semantics > are parsed. This is correct. What says otherwise? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] Pattern Hint

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
lting. My bad. I have on my WF3 list (because you put WF3 in its subject line). I haven't looked at any of the mails about suggestions for WF3 yet. I will in due course, fear not. When I said "we've already discussed this to death" above I was refering to , I hadn't realised refered to your WF3 proposal. No offence intended. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [html5] html:style parsing

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
s not being ignored by Mozilla. Oh, I see the confusion. The parenthetical is being interpreted way too literally. Ok, fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [html5] html:style parsing

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Hickson
t; .three { background:red } > > From #s2: > .one { background:lime } > .three { background:lime } > > Is that correct? Yes (including the order). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] several messages about creating custom widgets

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Hickson
s like: ...using , say. This will hopefully be possible once we define that itself is always by default bound to a particular UA binding. [1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xbl/xbl2.html Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0: Repeating blocks and move-up/move-down

2005-11-03 Thread Ian Hickson
n sction 6.2. > Lastly, it's occurred to me that a form like: > > > > ... > > > would be easier to handle, as you could reorder the (unordered) input > based on the foo-order values, as most frameworks do preserve the order > of values when mul

Re: [whatwg] [html5] html:style parsing

2005-11-04 Thread Ian Hickson
stcases to make sure it matches > what's actually implemented, which is probably what's required by the > Web. The HTML5 parsing section will cover this in detail. Note that HTML5 is not based on SGML any more. It will have its own independent parsing section. -- Ian Hic

Re: [whatwg] WA 1.0: 2.3.3.2. Inline-level content - typo

2005-11-07 Thread Ian Hickson
lying to them in due course but for Web Apps 1.0 I'm currently focusing on fleshing out the sections marked TBW before going back and responding to the many issues that have been raised. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] 2.3. Changes to existing controls

2005-11-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2005, at 02:21, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > Well, yeah, the basic normalisation that happens to any attribute > > including HTML attributes and so forth. But the confusing normalisation > > only occurs with DTD

Re: [whatwg] globalStorage scope issue

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Hickson
y would you want to restrict this? It's specifically designed to work in the scenarios that cookies fail in. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] WA 1.0 and WF 2

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:14 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > > > I would prefer if the spec was gzipped > > > > In theory this should be happening already.

Re: [whatwg] WA 1.0 and WF 2

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Hickson
nning on doing it any time soon. I'd rather cut > > features out, to be honest. > > A split version would be good, but only for final. I know it takes time > and work, that's why only for final. Yes, I do intend to work on a split version when the spec is finished.

Re: [whatwg] keygen element

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Hickson
ke it in the specs, please send a detailed spec for it (including error handling) and if it is a good spec then I'll look into adding it at some point. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/,

Re: [whatwg] http://whatwg.org/demos/repeat-01/

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Can this demo be fixed? The button named "add" needs to have a template > attribute with the literal value of "player". > > Furthermore, the DOCTYPE should be changed to "".

Re: [whatwg] http://whatwg.org/demos/repeat-02/results.xml

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Could you please change the namespace to "http://n.whatwg.org/formdata";. > Perhaps you also want to note at http://n.whatwg.org/formdata that it > can be used for seeding the form with initial values as well. Done and

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] Example not well-formed

2005-11-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Simon Pieters wrote: > > This example[1] should probably be something along the lines: > > http://search.example.com/";> > > > > [1] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#extensions2 Good catch, thanks. Fixed. -- I

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] Example should have labels

2005-11-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Simon Pieters wrote: > > This example[1] should probably have labels: > > > Name: required="required"/> > Comment: > > > [1] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-required Fair enough. Added

Re: [whatwg] Better model for avoiding history spam from pushState?

2005-11-22 Thread Ian Hickson
EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] INS/DEL and omitted tags

2005-11-24 Thread Ian Hickson
at would be correct instead. :-) Basically, when the parsing section gets written, it'll be written to match the behaviour that the most browsers do. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] autofocus

2005-11-25 Thread Ian Hickson
) method on the > form control or same as "nothing happens"? The spec lists all the requirements for autofocus="" handling, and none of them imply anything should happen when the attribute is dynamically changed, therefore nothing happens. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Maintaining unrounded values in forms

2005-11-25 Thread Ian Hickson
nything.) I haven't seen any formal proposals yet, though. I recommend raising this issue on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] keygen element

2005-11-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote: > On 14 Nov 2005 at 23:43, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Also, AFAIK keygen isn't in any standard but implemented in both Gecko > > > and Opera. Something for WHATWG to standardise? > > > > in gen

[whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Hickson
27;s a blocker problem, to be honest), makes the mistake of having an element's behaviour change radically based on an attribute (bad for authors and implementors). Anybody got any better ideas? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
ust to make it work. "Content-Disposition: inline; > filename=pass.class" didn't work, neither did "Content-Location: > pass.class". Suggestions?) I doubt HTML5 will have . BTW it is spelt "response". Cheers, -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
the requested data. If there is no plugin available, it should display a placeholder, IIRC. (What exactly a plugin is is not defined by HTML5.) (Since wasn't in HTML4 we have to be careful with it, browser compatibility here is even more important than with other elements.) -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
kind of menu using (and is done often today), and so it would allow for a seamless fallback (if we do it right). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
ted to support it) Interesting idea. I like the non-JS fallback potential. Pity about the being necessary to get the to disappear, but I guess we need that... It's unfortunate about the button being first, too. I guess we could change that if we say that in the new world in an any s are

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
and SVG are recognised by Mozilla's because at one point they were plugin-only in IE and so people would use instead of / and so when Mozilla moved to native implemen- tations for those types, it kept working for compatiblility.) > How should work? (If at all, I actually dislike all

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
irefox: > I can't find a way to disable plugins, so they are treated as Opera's "plugins > enabled" behaviour. > > IE: > Same as Firefox. Wow, pretty reasonable interoperability. I guess Opera's behaviour is what we should head for, then, making disabling of plugins optional. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Throbber response to XMLHTTPRequest() activity

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
etwork activity. As Lachlan points out, this is out of scope for the specification. User agents are mostly free to do whatever they like in their interface. I recommend performing usability testing to determine the optimal course of action in this case. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Simon Pieters wrote: > > Opera: > > If plugins are enabled, render all s and hide all s, and > > parse as CDATA. If plugins are disabled, hide all s and > > display all s, and parse as #PCDATA. > > Why does it need to parse it differently depending on

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
> Also when there's a type attribute? > > > > The attribute is only a hint. > > So the hint is only for the UA to decide whether or not to load the > resource? Well the hint allows the UA to prepare the right kind of rendering context, but the point is that it might be

Re: [whatwg] 1.2 scope

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
edia, it is not true of XUL and Mozilla. Sure it is. Microsoft couldn't come along and have equal say in the development of XUL, not like they could with the WHATWG or W3C specs. (Disclosure: I'm one of the editors of the woefully incomplete XUL spec.) -- Ian Hick

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > > > .. > > Ok, but how is equivalent markup handled in XHTML, where parsing > obviously can't switch to CDATA? It's a parse error (parse errors are fatal in XML). As to how the

Re: [whatwg] Test suite: Embedded content

2005-11-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Christian Biesinger wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > Yeah, what's a plugin and what isn't is a UA thing, so if the UA > > decides that its PNG and SVG "plugins" happen to be native support, > > well, that's what it

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] some comments on DOM interface section

2005-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
current-work/#reflect I suppose I _could_ copy the definition over but that seems like more work than it is worth, really. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] checkValidity() method description

2005-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > The description for the checkValidity() does not take into account that it can > also be called from the HTMLFormElement. Oops, that was just the link pointing to the wrong place. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] some comments on DOM interface section

2005-11-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I suppose I _could_ copy the definition over but that seems like more work > > than it is worth, really. > > Just add to <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-wo

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] DOMControlValueChanged cancelable?

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
n/fired on/ Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] editorial thing regarding wrap attribute

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > 2.14. Extensions to the textarea element > > # 'white-space' property values based on the wrap element > # for textarea elements > > There is no such thing as a "wrap element". Fixe

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] :disabled does not address option inside disabled optgroup

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > It only addresses form controls nested in a fieldset. However, setting > optgroup to disabled should cause descendents of that, either optgroup > or option, to become disabled as well. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] :disabled does not address option inside disabled optgroup

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It only addresses form controls nested in a fieldset. However, setting > > > optgroup to disabled should cause descendents of that, either optgroup > > >

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] change event

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
; because the DOM under the element was mutated), a change event is fired on the > output element." > > That contradicts each other, no? is not a control. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] change event

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > Section 4.2 states: "Change and input events must never be triggered by > > scripted > > changes to the control value." > > > > Section 2.13 st

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] change event is not cancelable

2005-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
; Could you make it more clear that this solely applies to 'input' and > 'DOMActivate'. (And not to the 'change' event.) It applies to all the events mentioned in that section, namely click, DOMActivate, and change. Where's the ambiguity? I'm confused. Wh

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] change event is not cancelable

2005-12-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-click> > > > > > > # If the default action of any of these events is canceled, > > > # th

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
sting documents > which do have select and buttons inside li elements? I only meant inside . -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
This could work. Basically in a new UA if you hit an element you render it as a menu button, and you use the contents to determine the and the button label according to some algorithm. (I've renamed to to remove any mention of what we call new elements for now. The structure is what I'm looking at here.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
button/whatever you call it (turns each command into a button, and each submenu into a menu button), and the default, which is to display as a (like today). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
all other content is ignored (and could be used for fallback). Not quite sure how to get the label for nested elements yet. Also not quite sure how to make all this styleable, especially for the toolbar type of . Although... maybe with XBL2's xbl:pseudo=""

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
on, the harder it is, IMHO. This is one reason is easier than CSS.) I'd expect use of the command="" attribute to be much rarer than just use of itself: (Falls back to a line break.) > In that case, could we just require like we do for and > ? Perhaps even replace with , making it more like the > XHTML 2.0 element? doesn't have convenient fallback characteristics. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Menus, fallback, and backwards compatibility: ideas wanted

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Hickson
important goal is being able to get just the right kind of fallback. Most toolbars these days don't have bullets before every command button. :-) > Earlier, Ian Hickson wrote: > > 1. Providing a menu bar for the entire window (or application, on Mac), so > > that the applica

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