Re: [whatwg] Codecs (was Re: Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements)

2007-03-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Robert Sayre wrote: > On 3/23/07, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I hate to be the one to break this to you, but CSS is covered by > > patents, > > I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you don't [know] anything

Re: [whatwg] Codecs (was Re: Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements)

2007-03-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Robert Sayre wrote: > On 3/23/07, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The technologies I listed _are_ covered by patents, yet they are not > > proprietary. This seems like a relevant counterexample to your > > argument. > >

Re: [whatwg] currentSrc

2007-03-23 Thread Ian Hickson
et out of the STOPPED state if you have chosen a media resource. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] HTMLMediaElement.load()

2007-03-23 Thread Ian Hickson
supposed to be > loading the content? The STOPPED state represents when there is no data. There is now data, so it is no longer STOPPED. (STOPPED was at one point called NO_MEDIA. Maybe we should consider changing it back.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.

Re: [whatwg] HTMLMediaElement.load()

2007-03-23 Thread Ian Hickson
#x27;t think the Apple proposal, as it stands, is very easy to author a UI against, and I don't think the current spec does enough. There's presumably a middle ground that works better.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-03-29 Thread Ian Hickson
support for other > specifications, SVG viewers are required to support both JPEG and PNG: > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/conform.html#ConformingSVGViewers SVG is not a spec I would recommend using as an example of a good spec. > And I haven't see

Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-03 Thread Ian Hickson
ely working on incorporating more of them as we speak. I'll be writing a detailed response when I've finished my first draft. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Trailing garbage, numbers and conformance

2007-04-05 Thread Ian Hickson
or non-numeric data, trailing or leading. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Request for mail list for svn checkin messages

2007-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
doesn't seem to have taken very well though. I shall investigate further. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Menu example

2007-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
> > > > You'd need type=button on those s, and type=toolbar on the , but otherwise that seems about right. Yes, it'd be one way to do it. You don't have to use s, or s, though. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] HTMLCommandElement or HTMLMenuElement

2007-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
attribute boolean autosubmit; > }; > > especially since HTMLCommandElement is defined differently in the previous > section. Thanks, I'll fix this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Drag'n'drop uploads propsal

2007-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
automatically be sent to the nearest (likely only) element. This is really just a matter of getting the browser vendors to implement that UI. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`

Re: [whatwg] modal and modeless windows

2007-04-26 Thread Ian Hickson
ngs while it's running, e.g. changing the data from under it. Thus, concepts like modal dialogs for editing no longer work; instead you have to use concepts like those of wikis and collaborative software, even in the single-user case. Thanks for your input! Sorry it took so long for me to proce

Re: [whatwg] Really Simple History: Bookmarking and Browser History Support for AJAX Applications

2007-04-26 Thread Ian Hickson
work, but when > things ease I will prepare a longer response about these WHAT sections. Did things ever ease up, by any chance? I don't think we ever got a more detailed review. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--...

Re: [whatwg] Requesting information about the use of explicit new lines in title attributes.

2007-04-27 Thread Ian Hickson
ing) user agents should really honour the line breaks and not render them as, say, black boxes. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Cross-domain components

2007-04-27 Thread Ian Hickson
that you can make sure you're not being driven by unexpected content). I'm not sure we can remove it. Given the existence of the workaround by using a proxy iframe, I think we can punt on the problem for now -- if it turns out to be a major problem, we can address in fu

Re: [whatwg] Target Attribute Values

2007-04-27 Thread Ian Hickson
omain... etc.) > > So... if you didn't use a "_blank" for the target, the landing page for > the ad would open up in the tiny (instead of a new window). On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > That's a use case for _top or _parent, not _blank. Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Target Attribute Values

2007-04-27 Thread Ian Hickson
er web apps, or even > other instances of your own web app. Also true. These are strong arguments for putting _blank back. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] Saying +1 or -1 is not useful on this mailing list

2007-04-30 Thread Ian Hickson
hange the spec the other way. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Saying +1 or -1 is not useful on this mailing list

2007-04-30 Thread Ian Hickson
ere's nothing to add. :-) If his proposal is good, it'll stand up on its own merits. I read every proposal. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] Issues concerning the element and xml:base

2007-04-30 Thread Ian Hickson
ase URI from the encapsulating entity" or the "URI used to retrieve the entity". See RFC2396. On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > Note that some of the suggestions made in this thread would give quite > surprising results e.g. when using XInclude. You didn't

[whatwg] Sandboxing ideas

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
A number of people made proposals related to sandboxing content to improve Web security. To be honest, I did not think the proposals by and large were very well thought out; they seemed to be based mostly on intuition and not on careful design. For example, none of the proposals clearly stated

Re: [whatwg] "canvas" tag and animations ?

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > > | > > > | Canvases are automatically double-buffered. > > > > > > Why? Is this a requirement? > > > > Not in theory, but in practice it is. Early Opera implementations > > didn't do this and the performance was too slow for practical use. > > T

[whatwg] Dashed strokes on

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Hickson
ou want to mix text with the > > graphics.) > > May I assume that the inclusion of gradients is solely because they are > implemented for fills aleady? Pretty much, I think. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] toDataURL() and unsupported formats

2007-05-08 Thread Ian Hickson
quot;URL" is fine. > Whether the answer is yes or no, it might be a good idea to tweak that > section slightly to be more consistent, since it seems to use URI and > URL interchangably. Fixed, thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--

Re: [whatwg] toDataURL() and unsupported formats

2007-05-08 Thread Ian Hickson
xhr.send(data); } Since the warning might not be necessary anyway (e.g. because the server might do the conversion silently), I don't think it's a big deal. It could become more important in the future if the author wanted to convert to HD Photo by preference, with fallback to J

[whatwg] HTML5 is now also hosted by the W3C

2007-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
to this list will still be taken into account, as it always has. In fact, my first order of business going forward is to respond to the thousands of e-mails of feedback sent to this list over the last few years; you may have already noticed me doing this. -- Ian Hick

Re: [whatwg] return lowercase hex values for fillStyle and strokeStyle

2007-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
nment. You can use uppercase letters when setting, which is where you're most likely to see this. It only affects the getter. I think consistency with the rest of the platform will get us at least as much of a win for authors as would be gotten from uppercase

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2007-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
t there are a number of ways to obtain the desired language style even with the current spec, and that the DOM APIs don't generally use this calling style anyway, I'm going to opt for not changing the spec at this stage. I understand that this isn't what everyone wanted, and I und

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] Multiple closePath() after beginPath()?

2007-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Sven Drieling wrote: > > is it allowed to use multiple closePath() calls after beginPath()? Yes. Does the spec say anything to suggest otherwise? If so, I should fix it. I couldn't find any text to that effect, though. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] drawImage()

2007-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
n, drawing a partially > loaded image may be a desirable behavior in some cases I've updated the spec. Now, if an HTMLImageElement is passed whose 'complete' attribute is false, an INVALID_STATE_ERR exception must be raised. -- Ian Hickson U+10

Re: [whatwg] Opera canvas bug?

2007-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
I've created this test: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/canvas/034.html ...based on your test. The fifth and final test: http://abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/opera_canvas_bugs/bug_data.htm ...seems to work everywhere now. Thanks for the feedback, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] Opera canvas bug?

2007-05-10 Thread Ian Hickson
d Safari have bugs on this. Here are some more tests for you: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/canvas/ Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Opera canvas bug?

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > 2007/5/11, Ian Hickson: > > > > Here are some more tests for you: > > > >http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/canvas/ > > You're using instead of , is this a > mistake or have I missed a change i

Re: [whatwg] Canvas draw quality

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
by not performing the requested paints synchronously, but instead buffering them and determining which need anti-aliasing and which do not. Thus we do not need to provide controls for this level of detail. Thanks for the feedback, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] canvas elements etc

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
dy do support, or seem to be close to > supporting SVG. Hopefully the explanation above highlights the reasons for both to exist. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] Extending clipping paths

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
to full > without having to call save/restore would still be appreciated. I've also added this to the v3 list. Can you expand on the use case for this (e.g. sample plausibly production code that would do this)? It would be interesting to have some fe

[whatwg] Canvas save/restore functionality

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
and the low level of demand, I'm going to leave the save/restore functionality as-is for now. I've noted the clipping restoration request in the spec as a possibly future canvas extension. Thanks for your feedback, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

[whatwg] Canvas path objects and path transformations

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
as putting the drawing code in a > separate function and calling it again, with a different transform > matrix set. Per the above discussion, I haven't added anything to store paths yet. On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Stefan Haustein wrote: > > Anyway, now that you mention it, we really

[whatwg] Canvas color serialisation

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
asy > to scan over DECA67 but deca67 might appear more like a variable name, > distracting the developer, if only momentarily. On Thu, 10 May 2007, mozer wrote: > > what about alert(xxx.fillStyle.toUppercase()) ? Given the existence of this workaround, the value of consistency across the platform, and the unlikelihood of changing the older parts of the platform, I am going to leave it as lowercase. It's really not a big deal what the case of the attribute's return value is, in practice... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] drawImage() and createPattern()

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
er. Wow, you raised this problem multiple times. Anyway. I've fixed the spec for drawImage() (as per my last two replies to your requests) and for createPattern() (as per this request -- I missed that last time). Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,

Re: [whatwg] Opera canvas bug?

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
says now). I'm currently trying to determine what the feasibility of implementing the spec in Safari and Firefox is; if they can implement it then the issue is moot. I understand that there are use cases for both options. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,&#x

Re: [whatwg] new ImageData(w, h) proposal

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
. The new object's data is > set to transparent black, that is w*h*4 integers set to 0. var imagedata = { height: h, width: w, data: [i for (i in function (n) { for (let i = 0; i < n; i += 1) yield 0 }(w*h*4)) ] }; -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.

Re: [whatwg] getImageData()

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
ht and > width you ask for with getImageData() don't necessarily reflect the > height and width attributes of the ImageData object you get back. Done. > Maybe putImageData() should throw a TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR for non ImageData > objects as first argument? Similar to drawIm

Re: [whatwg] Spec-based canvas tests

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
ns would be very valuable. FWIW I have some tests here, too: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/canvas/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Spec-based canvas tests

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: > > [...] in some of the cases I had to guess what would be an acceptable > result when the spec doesn't specify it Do you have any record of which cases the spec doesn't cover? -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Canvas spec issues

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
y > be the identity transform. It may then be adjusted using the three > transformation methods" - but there are now five (not three) > transformation methods (scale, rotate, translate, transform, > setTransform). Fixed. > In Composit

Re: [whatwg] Spec-based canvas tests

2007-05-11 Thread Ian Hickson
> tests where the spec has changed, and I'll try then to identify any > specific cases where I still think there are problems. Great, thanks. I'm going through the e-mails you sent now. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._

Re: [whatwg] Canvas - createRadialGradient

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
ically what you described as your second bulletpoint. The only case this doesn't cover is the x0,y0,r0=x1,y1,r1 case, but that doesn't really make any sense to me from a radial gradient point of view. I've made it paint nothing. It could raise an exception, I guess. Or paint a circ

Re: [whatwg] Canvas spec issues

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
y that it doesn't have obvious errors and omissions and > ABC...) Heh. :-) > "Immediately before the 0 offset and immediately after the 1 offset, > transparent black stops are be assumed." - syntax error, and should have > "must". That text is now g

Re: [whatwg] some areas of ambiguity in the canvas section

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
; true if the width attribute is re-set to the same value it already has. > I think it should be reset, but what's important is that we specify one > way or the other. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [whatwg] Dashed strokes on

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
awing section should give the equation for computing > the points on the curve For arc() and arcTo() the definition seems complete, but I'm not familiar enough with graphics theory to know what quadraticCurveTo() and bezierCurveTo() need. Could you suggest some text? > http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/dash.html Nice! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] Canvas color serialisation

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
e+")" at > http://dave-webster.com/projects/index.php?page=incs/plasma_demo1 > > so people do want to set colours from calculated values, and the > CSS-colour interface just becomes an inconvenience. But it's only a > small inconvenience and is easy to work around, s

[whatwg] Canvas and imageData

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
ave to be quite careful to get it > right if you're only ever testing in browsers with a 1:1 pixel mapping, > though it's not that hard once you understand the issues and if you can > find someone to test and report bugs. The use cases it was intended for were the first and last. I'm not really sure I understand the second use case. > So, I was considering the function >getImageData(sx, sy, sw, sh, hires) I think that's an interesting idea, but I think what we should do is wait for someone to implement a high res canvas, and if stuff breaks, then we retroactively redefine getImageData to return low res data, and then add the high-res flag. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Canvas spec issues

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
It makes sense -- it's the value of the 'color' property. > > The 'color' property of the element? Right. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Canvas - createRadialGradient

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
with the color of the last stop." - I think both those sentences are > wrong with the new definition - it's only when one circle is partly > outside the other that the end circle looks like it's on top of the > start circle, and the end circle is never really filled. I

Re: [whatwg] Canvas path objects and path transformations

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
I guess I still don't really understand what the use case is. Why would you need to know what the transformation matrix is? Why can't you just keep track of what you've done? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

[whatwg] Canvas Zero/NaN/Infinity issues

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Hickson
I > think the specification should say what the expected behavior is for: > > 1) NANs > 2) non-floating point values > 3) missing parameters > b) excess arguments 1, 3, and b now raise exceptions except if otherwise specified. I haven't yet defined 2. I'm not sure what it should say. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] several messages

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
ne > of our operators; this is what our SVG impl does now for many of the SVG > filters. According to David, 'lighter' is just Porter-Duff's 'plus'. Is that not right? For now I've left it, with that definition. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] several messages

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
icitly says > extra parameters must be allowed - but FF uses them for privileged > content, and throws a security exception if normal content uses them). I've changed the spec to say to ignore extra arguments and raise an exception for too few arguments. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Canvas and imageData

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
> Quartz Debug.app to set the UI scale factor to something other than the > default value of 1.0. (Apple does not currently ship any systems with > the scale factor pre-set to anything but 1.0.) Do you have any experience with getImageData() and putImageData() that would help us here?

Re: [whatwg] Dashed strokes on

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
er" rather than "we'll add it now", since there are workarounds and seemingly little demand. Please let us know if you get any input on your blog post. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Dashed strokes on

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
#x27;ll > need Opera to see it. > > A ten or twelve year old java applet doing something similar can be seen > here: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/java/tile/Trime.html In it > the dashing is provided rather painfully through code. Cool, thanks for the pointers. --

[whatwg] Predefined classes are gone

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
g some of the new elements. class=note and class=example, for instance, can instead use elements, class=copyright can use , etc. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that

[whatwg] Feedback affected by the predefined classes being gone

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
The rel attribute is about links. What I meant by that is that I think > it would be useful to have a private domain for link types too. It would > work a little differently than on class though, because the current spec > disallows unregistered link types while it allows unregistered class > names. My proposal would be to allow unregistered link types if they > start with a dash "-". What's the advantage of allowing this, given that authors can already use class="" on links? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] classList.toggle()

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
27;t > be out of sync with the state. Here's a simple example. The images would > zoom out and fade when you click on them, and return to their normal > state when clicked again. > > > Bridge Gallery > > > > > > >

Re: [whatwg] Problems with DOMTokenString

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Hickson
idgets. > > Indexing actually isn't the world's best way to do that from point of > view of efficient implementation, but it's the standard for this sort of > thing in the DOM and class lists are unlikely to have a huge number of > items. Added. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] Predefined classes are gone

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Hickson
> CSS class mechanism. I'd rather we discussed use cases first, and then tried to work out what solutions fit those use cases. The main reason the predefined classes were removed is that they had no convincing use cases. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,-

Re: [whatwg] Issues concerning the element and xml:base

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Hickson
ge instead of on the same page, and in practice even that's not likely, since (anecdotely) most pages with simply alternate between different names. What do you think? > > No, the element sets the "document entity's base URI", and is > > resolved relative

Re: [whatwg] Scripting Tweaks

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Hickson
7;s where it should be addressed. The uniqueID idea has a number of rather unique implementation difficulties. The obvious implementations have security and privacy implementations; the solutions to those tend to be expensive either in RAM or CPU. I recommend bringing this to the attention of the

Re: [whatwg] Radio UserLand: Mail from Ian Hickson

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Hickson
urrent page. Could you elaborate on the use case? It would be helpful to work out exactly what you're trying to do so that we can add the right feature to the language. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.

Re: [whatwg] Radio UserLand: Mail from Ian Hickson

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Hickson
I think. The question is, what exactly is the use case? Do we want to be doing POSTs like this without the user knowing, and with JS required? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Scripting Tweaks

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > > > > 1) Mozilla's DOMContentLoaded event is very handy. It fires when a > > > node's content has been loaded and parsed (the DOM has been > > > constructed). This is much better than the standard onload event as > > > it doesn't wait for bina

[whatwg] Canvas 'darker' operator

2007-05-20 Thread Ian Hickson
of hardware support. Can you point to a definition of 'darker' that is defined to the level of the Porter-Duff operators and has native support in the primary graphics libraries? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] dashed lines in Canvas

2007-05-21 Thread Ian Hickson
Hey, wouldn't that be neat? You could have a llibrary that uses a canvas to do round-trip UML to generate real code. If someone actually does this, then we might have to reconsider. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] password option for window.prompt?

2007-05-21 Thread Ian Hickson
uld solve, or if this problem can be solved in ways that help other problems too. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] [html5] window.print() undefined

2007-05-21 Thread Ian Hickson
t to be visible on screen and not in print. (Its a bit tricky > to add and remove class names, but still cleaner than using print > events.) It should now be easy, with our new 'classList' DOM attribute. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,&#

Re: [whatwg] password option for window.prompt?

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
igin than the URI, the > dereference context must be an empty object. > Which is the case with bookmarklets. Actually the spec explicitly handles bookmarklets (they have the origin of the Document to which they are applied -- actually the spec had an error in this section until just now

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
MIME type TAG finding all over the place. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > So are you seriously suggesting to document behavior that is a against > > > what the W3C TAG recommends? > > > > The WHATWG principles

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
"work" on making less content break it, and why I think that it's a lost cause. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Hickson
;Normative" means "what UA implementors need to do". Your statements, at least in the context of this work, iare self-contradictory. There's no point us making the spec be something that we know browser vendors have to ignore. We're not writing science fiction. We're writ

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Hickson
to requests for changes that take reality into account; their spec may well end up irrelevant. There has been talk of making an "HTTP5" spec that fixes problems like this.) > Again, that doesn't mean that documenting what's needed today isn't a > good thing. I ju

Re: [whatwg] [html5] window.print() undefined

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Hickson
any browser on the Mac works the same way, although I haven't > tested others. I've defined window.print(), but I haven't yet defined what exactly printing is. I'll have to define that in more detail as part of the "rendering" section. I hope that helps. -- Ian

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Hickson
at documenting what's needed today isn't > > > a good thing. I just think it needs to be a different document. > > > > That "different document" is the HTML5 spec. You are welcome to work > > on a document that describes what you would _like_ reality to have > > been. But it isn't this spec. > > Ian, I understand that this is what the WHATWG'S HTML5 document does > today; I just don't see how it can become the W3C's HTML5 spec while > doing this. I urge you to raise this with the HTML working group then. This thread is currently in the WHATWG mailing list, which the HTML working group chairmen don't follow. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Hickson
ything. My understanding is that the chairmen are sorting out some sort of issue tracking system before moving to the review process. I would be more than happy to help with that in any way I can. > On 2007-05-23 23:20:40 +0200 Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied to > Julian: >

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
an change the MIME type later after > checking the content. > > However, this doesn't protect anyone using IE, because IE claims to know > better and ignores Content-Type. Note that the HTML5 spec requires browsers not to convert text/plain to a more dangerous type (

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
de a more precise pointer, > > > or follow up on that mailing list. > > > > Content-Location is the prime example I was thinking of, yes. > > The mailing list thread is at > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006OctDec

Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP)

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
ng idea. Any browser vendors have any feedback on this? Any idea if it would break anything? There are millions of elements with type="" attributes out there, I don't know if any of them would cause problems though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--..

Re: [whatwg] One document or two?

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
of one group with values but no names, and the document is non-conforming. Should that be shown in the cut down "author" version? There are also a number of sentences that would need to be rewritten so they still make sense with parts of the sentences

Re: [whatwg] [html5] attributes in text/html

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
s/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Cp%20tesT%3Da%20TEST%3Da%20TeSt%3Da%20test%3Da%3E Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] ECMAScript extensions in Web Applications

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
there are a number of interfaces that are interchangeable with Function -- e.g. setTimeout() can take a Function-like object. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [whatwg] 2.2.1. DOM feature strings

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
> script which checks the availability of each of the WA 1.0 DOM stuff I > use. You can check the feature string, that's why it's there. But it won't tell you much. Browsers don't support HTML5 or not support HTML5. They support bits of it. For exam

Re: [whatwg] 2.2.1. DOM feature strings

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > Today's browsers should deny when queried about whether they support > HTML5 in hasFeature. Right. That's why the spec says "should" and not "must". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] WA 1.0 - document outline suggestion

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
interfaces without ambiguity about what is a section. This is an area that has historically been very much underdefined. We shall have to see, with implementation experience, whether this is useful or not, and what UA implementors will do with it. Cheers, -- Ia

Re: [whatwg] cross-frame cookies

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > > there is some discussion surrounding cookies and security - see this > bug: http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6797 > > We are wondering if it would be any use to block document.cookie access > across frames completely, or whether thi

Re: [whatwg] Script origin tracking

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
s like it (this is a relatively important area of security research), have performance characteristics that several browser vendors have told me are unacceptable. I think we're stuck with the current model, at least for the forseeable future. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [whatwg] One document or two?

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
rom > there it will get clear how much more detailed this should be done, if > it all. It's something that's on the cards. However, it's not a priority, at least not for me. There are several "meta" things I'd like to do to the spec (like have the s

Re: [whatwg] [html5] The DocumentFocus interface

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > I propose to rename the "currentFocus" attribute to "activeElement" for > historical reasons.[1] (Both Internet Explorer and Opera implement it in > that way.) Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [whatwg] "canvas" tag and animations ?

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
one. I don't think it would be right to make it non-conforming for a browser to show intermediate renderings. It would be a bad user experience, but, well, so would many things; it doesn't mean we have to disallow them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,

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