Re: [whatwg] Canvas and DOM elements

2006-05-19 Thread Ian Hickson
badly implemented. So it was felt better to make things more specific to one element. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] proposed canvas 2d API additions

2006-05-19 Thread Ian Hickson
. The arguments are all floats, not ints. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Spec errors (Canvas Storage)

2006-05-19 Thread Ian Hickson
parser would allow it, but as we're specifying the exact format here, the spec should probably explicitly disallow (or even allow?) zero-padded integers. Fixed. 3) Storage (chapter 4.9.8.4.): http://example.com/:18080 should be http://example.com:18080/ Fixed. Thanks! -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Storage.getItem() question

2006-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
actually does? (From a JS point of view, not from the C++ point of view.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-05-31 Thread Ian Hickson
people think? Good idea? Bad idea? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Wrong sample code in 4.9.1 of Web Application 1.0 spec

2006-06-02 Thread Ian Hickson
. Thanks. Fixed. (It comes from when the spec stored things other than strings.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Hickson
with rules that make the syntax easier (by implying tags as I suggested earlier), then that might well change, especially given that one UA already has extensive and high-quality support for MathML. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, White Lynx wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: What we need, to move forwards on this, would be a full proposal for what you want added to HTML5. Currently this thread seems mostly to be along the lines of we should add maths, but we shouldn't make it hard. Sketch

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Hickson
send some mails. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Hickson
such languages. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
typography, and adding features to CSS to obtain this level of expressiveness would require a huge specification with such a small target domain than nobody would implement it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] oninput event - pasting

2006-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
the event fire? Yes. Another part of the spec mentions that the UA may coallesce multiple inputs into one input event, so e.g. if you type very fast it might not fire one input event per character, it might fire one every few hundred milliseconds instead. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
per feature is not an option (as it would require a central authority to add these features, slowing the introduction of new features and discouraging experimentation), what solution would _you_ propose? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
solution would you propose instead? I don't see a better solution. I'm certainly open to better solutions if there are any. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, L. David Baron wrote: On Friday 2006-06-09 01:17 +, Ian Hickson wrote: Given that requiring a new flag per feature is not an option (as, as mentioned before, it would require a central authority to add these features, slowing the introduction of new features

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-11 Thread Ian Hickson
for mathematics markup using the microformats.org principles. If this demonstrates that it really is possible to create viable math markup in HTML and have it completely styled in CSS then that would be a good step forward. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] [html5] HTMLMapElement.images

2006-06-13 Thread Ian Hickson
HTMLCanvasElement?) elements that use that image map definition. What's the use case? -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-18 Thread Ian Hickson
it into native XHTML with MathML, etc. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-18 Thread Ian Hickson
. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] About adopting quirks mode parsing

2006-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
to be. Like you, I don't know. :-) I want to do some research on this in due course, but I haven't been able to do it yet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, White Lynx wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Certainly. The question is how. There have been several proposals. My recommendation to those who think it is possible to re-use CSS to get an acceptable level of Math support would be to go through the Microformats process

[whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
the spellcheck attribute to the value off should disable it. User agents must ignore all other values, such that setting the attribute to a value other than on or off does not change the spellchecking state for the element. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
and an implementation than just an implementation... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
To: line but enabled for its Subject line? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] globalCompositeOperation poorly defined

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Hickson
a note to that effect in the spec. I don't know enough about 2D graphics to write this part of the spec, and Apple's original documentation (on which the current text is based) was at least as vague as the spec is now. If anyone can provide suitable text, I'd be very grateful. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] secure attribute in Storage section of WA spec

2006-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
name of the site. I'm happy to make it a tristate flag, but I'd want to better understand why that would make it more secure. If it would make it more secure, that would imply some pretty worrying things about TLS today. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

[whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

2006-06-29 Thread Ian Hickson
that were raised against accept=. On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:04:51 +0700, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All elements can have spellchecking enabled or disabled. UAs may allow the user to set this flag, and may have defaults that vary based

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2006-07-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: In prototype based languages it is almost impossible to implement 'with' effectively in the given notation. ctx.moveTo(0,0).lineTo(10,10); is more effective. In some circumstances - in times. Why is it more effective for JS? -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2006-07-02 Thread Ian Hickson
to change to support chaining, though, I will of course change the spec as well. Vlad, however, seemed reluctant, and he is one of the implementors. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2006-07-02 Thread Ian Hickson
to scan whole namespace chain (with case). In short 'with' creates additional level of ambiguity. This is only the case where you don't know what foo will contain. In this case what foo contains is very explicitly defined. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2006-07-02 Thread Ian Hickson
, I'm fine with the idea per se, if implementors are willing to change their implementations and fix any resulting bugs, then the spec will follow. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Where did the rev attribute go?

2006-07-05 Thread Ian Hickson
. This indicates that there is a problem. In practice it's no big deal. For every rev= value you can find or define an equivalent rel= value. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] Where did the rev attribute go?

2006-07-05 Thread Ian Hickson
on a crawl of approximately one billion documents.) I'm using it for trust metrics and reputation. (But that's just me and the software I write :-) ) Could you give us some pointers to this software? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [whatwg] Where did the rev attribute go?

2006-07-05 Thread Ian Hickson
that can't be done any other way. Thus they seem potentially valuable and don't have a high associated cost. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: [whatwg] Where did the rev attribute go?

2006-07-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Hugh Winkler wrote: On 7/5/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (This data is based on a crawl of approximately one billion documents.) Could you give us some pointers to this software? Could you give us pointers to that data? http

Re: [whatwg] [wa1] Status of tree construction section and SVN interface

2006-07-07 Thread Ian Hickson
the URI I use to check in! :-) -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] contenteditable= needs fixing

2006-07-11 Thread Ian Hickson
have a three-state attribute when you can just as easily have a two-state attribute? We're not just sheep, following whatever Microsoft does. We have to think about the value of the features we are adding. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [whatwg] [wa1] Status of tree construction section

2006-07-11 Thread Ian Hickson
browsers it's simply not an option. Having to fire mutation events for every mutation according to the complete DOM3 Events model is prohibitively expensive. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [WebApps] Parsing: bogus DOCTYPE state

2006-07-18 Thread Ian Hickson
tokenising end of DOCTYPE. 36: Parse error: errorneous document type declaration. ...on your second (and no other errors). Those don't seem like the wrong kinds of errors. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] About adopting quirks mode parsing

2006-07-18 Thread Ian Hickson
added the things you brought up here to the list of things I need to look at. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] Missing state transitions?

2006-07-20 Thread Ian Hickson
had been seen and then reprocess the current token - just like an end-of-file token). You are correct. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] Missing step in formatting element algorithm

2006-07-21 Thread Ian Hickson
like it could be a remnant of an earlier version of the algorithm that didn't have a step 14 that looped the whole algorithm, perhaps? Yeah, exactly. Fixed. Good catches. Thanks! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] Formatting elements

2006-07-21 Thread Ian Hickson
-viewer/ Now I'll have to work out why that doesn't work in my browser ;-) Let me know if it's my fault. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Broken references links to IETF website

2006-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] What should document.write() do when called from setTimeout or event handlers?

2006-07-31 Thread Ian Hickson
easy/hard it is to do one thing or the other. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] What should document.write() do when called from setTimeout or event handlers?

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Hickson
. The Safari way has the problem that it means you can end up blocking once script while another script executes, which is a very bad situation to be in (theoretically, JS is not re-entrant except in well-defined cases). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: [whatwg] What should document.write() do when called from setTimeout or event handlers?

2006-08-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: But, anyway, I'm strongly against prohibiting event handling while the document is loading. Doing that would be removing functionality on which existing documents rely. Agreed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] Label with empty for attribute

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
wins this one I think. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] required attribute and pseudo-classes

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
that attribute is defined not to apply. I added the text to :required/:optional anyway, so it's now there twice. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] valueMissing versus missingValue

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
to fix. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] addition and attributes of type ID

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
just because someone labelled it as being an ID attribute. We only strip the one attribute to prevent confusion in the normal order of things. IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] Label with empty for attribute

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
not be associated with the form, so that they won't be submitted with the form. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Parsing entities

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
of characters possible, with the consumed characters case-sensitively matching one of the identifiers in the first column of the entities table. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] form validation of values that aren't entered by the user

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
: if current value length maxlength if current value != default value // user changed text not according to restrictions show validation error messag else// assuming author error. ignore. and submit form anyway Done. Thanks for your feedback. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] changing the size DOM attribute of select

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
it be selected: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Cp%3E%3Cselect%20size%3D1%3E%3Coption%3ETEST%3C/select%3E%0A%3Cscript%3Evar%20s%20%3D%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27select%27%29%5B0%5D%3B%20s.size%20%3D%202%3B%3C/script%3E I'd say yes. No? -- Ian

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] changing the size DOM attribute of select

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
nothing to do with that. Hm, interesting. You're saying that paragraph should apply even when changing _to_ a size=1 case. Hm. Well, doesn't it? Notwithstanding that this contradicts my last e-mail, isn't the behaviour according to that paragraph clear? (And Opera and Safari are correct?) -- Ian

Re: [whatwg] oninput event

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
it is a reasonable requirement that the last event per control in a series of inputs is not skipped, so that e.g. oninput=output.value=value will always make the output control be in sync shortly after the last key press (but not necessarily while the user is typing rapidly). Right. Thanks, -- Ian

Re: [whatwg] oninput event

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
typematic delay. That's exactly teh intention, yes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] False orthogonal nature :read-only and :disabled in WF2

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
change the WF2 spec to produce orthogonally where none existed in the collective W3C specs. Perhaps you can explain to me how you justify this. I'm trying to make the specs be useful to authors. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Late comments and questions on Web Forms 2.0

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
it twice. I hope you understand. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] More late comments and questions on Web Forms 2.0

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
that making it non-conforming is useful. As mentioned previously, I don't like making things non-conforming unless they are very clearly wrong. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [whatwg] Select conformance

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
document is non-conformant. (Confidence: 99.9%.)\n; -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Select conformance

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
sense. Generally, as noted several times today, I'm against banning things that aren't very clearly bad. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Select conformance

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
authors. It would be better to make disabled orthogonal to other UI state. I agree. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms: pattern attribute

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
something that begins by foo (like football) or ending with bar (like babar). In the second case it would match only foo or bar, nothing else. The later interpretation seems more in line with the intent, but I suppose this could be made clearer. Good point. Fixed. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 proposal

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, porneL wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:57:15 +0100, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm reading the spec correctly then pattern is used to prevent/allow form submission, and to highlight an invalid entry. What I am suggesting is a filter that can

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] repeat-min and max

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
to an integer is conforming)? You asked that in another mail. :-) The spec doesn't say it's non-conforming, so yes, it's conforming for all these attributes to be on any element, regardless of the other attributes. But they don't have any effect. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] repeat-min and max

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
. Actually, step 8 in the template addition process suggest I assumed wrong. I don't understand this message. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] repeat-min and max

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
the attribute value? I always meant positive to include zero. It now says non-negative. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] repeat-min and max

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
/repeat-max/003.htm http://webforms2.testsuite.org/repetition/attributes/repeat-max/004.htm Negative numbers are definitely not allowed (since they don't consist of just the characters 0-9). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] multipart/form-data and _charset_

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: Section 5.2.1. Why isn't the _charset_ field defined to be filled when the submission type is multipart/form-data? Because the encoding is given in the parts. See RFC2388. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Leap seconds, dates in the past

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
what the word proleptic means but it sounds good. I've added this to the spec on the assumption that you know what you're talking about (which has historically been shown to be a good assumption). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Leap seconds, dates in the past

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
need support dates before 1800 CE either, but that's another story.) Anybody doing real work with dates that far back is going to have very specific needs when it comes to calendars and WF2 isn't going to cut it for them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] alternatives/grouping in pattern attributes in Web Forms

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
requiring the regexp to match the entire string. I've gone ahead and just removed the paragraph you quote above as it is just confusing and wrong (as you point out). Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] handling form elements inside rendered OBJECT

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
it should use. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Filtering datalist with pattern

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
at http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/ shows ftp and file URLs in Opera 9 even though the pattern only matches http and https URLs.) Added encouragement. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 31 May 2006, James Graham wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: The Mozilla guys propose (in bug 339127) to make the accept= attribute on input elements also apply to types other than type=file, with the same meaning as we currently have on textarea. Their particular use case is to use

Re: [whatwg] form validation of values that aren't entered by the user

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
was going. But now that Mozilla is implementing it too and W3C is looking at it, the direction is clearer, so I'm getting around to fixing the spec again. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] non-checked checkbox posting success?

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
the row is present. This is better than a solution for checkboxes, because it works for other controls too, like selects, which might not submit a value, or disabled text controls, which wouldn't submit a value either. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Filtering datalist with pattern

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
authors to write these values into the pattern? Yes. (Of course, alternatively, they can remove the pattern and constrain the field by scripting.) Yup. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Late comments and questions on Web Forms 2.0

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
dates are allowed, that solves that problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 as a W3C draft

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
. (And of course, let me know of any technical problems you might see! I'll address those in due course too.) [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/ Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] repeat-min and max

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:40:53 -0700, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://webforms2.testsuite.org/repetition/attributes/repeat-max/001.htm http://webforms2.testsuite.org/repetition/attributes/repeat-max/003.htm http://webforms2

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Late comments and questions on Web Forms 2.0

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Ian Hickson wrote: 2.14. Authors may include an accept attribute on textarea elements to indicate the type of content expected. User agents may use this attribute to provide more appropriate editors, syntax highlighting, spelling

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Late comments and questions on Web Forms 2.0

2006-08-17 Thread Ian Hickson
, and the other has a very nebulous role that is more about giving UA vendors ideas than about interoperability. I've allowed parameters explicitly now and mentioned in a note that the two attributes aren't the same. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 is now a W3C Working Draft

2006-08-22 Thread Ian Hickson
by. If you sent comments on Web Forms 2.0 that _were_ feature requests, then don't worry, I've kept your requests and will be going through them at a future date when (if) I work on a Web Forms 3.0. (Or, if someone else does that, I'll forward your comments to them.) Cheers, -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Filtering datalist with pattern

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Hickson
option label=Z value=220 option label=N value=160 option label=HO value=87 option value=8 /datalist -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Filtering datalist with pattern

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Hickson
again). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] input type=country?

2006-08-24 Thread Ian Hickson
. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Forms and POST'ing to data: URL's

2006-08-24 Thread Ian Hickson
the actual use case? I hadn't really envisaged data: being used for anything but debugging. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Forms and POST'ing to data: URL's

2006-08-25 Thread Ian Hickson
of such a solution isn't worth the limited use it would get. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Persistent storage is critically flawed.

2006-08-27 Thread Ian Hickson
a better solution would be. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Ian Hickson
arguably a very minor improvement, but probably not worth the huge specification and implementation cost. Certainly there are bigger bang for the buck improvements that can be made. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Persistent storage is critically flawed.

2006-08-28 Thread Ian Hickson
site login. eg: DOMAIN KEY SECRET DATA foo.bar baz kj43h545j34h6jk534dfytyf A string. I don't really see how that would work. Could you explain it in more detail? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Ian Hickson
/a ...or the currently non-conforming: a href= h2.../h2 p.../p /a We could make it conforming, I guess. The parser already supports it to some extent. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] proposed canvas 2d API additions

2006-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2006 17:34:04 +0200, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other problem I had with it was that the colors are restricted to 8 bit. That may potentially lead to data loss but I guess it's not a major concern yet

Re: [whatwg] Fwd: Re: [xhtml-role] Extensibility of XHTML 1 and XHTML 1.1 (PR#9627)

2006-09-12 Thread Ian Hickson
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Re: [whatwg] Fwd: Re: [xhtml-role] Extensibility of XHTML 1 and XHTML 1.1 (PR#9627)

2006-09-12 Thread Ian Hickson
. WHATWG isn't really the place to debate this either, I guess. Let's leave this problem up to the W3C to deal with. (PS. Just one more week of vacation and then I'll be resuming work on WA1. Hopefully we can get this baby into a feature-complete state soon.) -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Enhanced data tables

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote: On 4 Dec, 2004, at 6:32 AM, Afternoon wrote: On 3 Dec 2004, at 17:18, Ian Hickson wrote: ... From a practical standpoint the difference between a table and a data grid is that the table's data is all in a DOM content model, whereas the data

Re: [whatwg] Web Apps 1.0 - DataGrid

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Hickson
look at more closely. (We've looked at it before, but never for very long.) Thanks for the feedback, though, I'll make sure to bring this up with the CSS WG again. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

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