Re: [whatwg] img element comments

2006-11-04 Thread Spartanicus
with that? Definitely on the integer value only, allowing percentage values makes no sense to me. In some cases I have used just one attribute http://homepage.ntlworld.ie/spartanicus/fit_image_in_column2.htm , but on examination this does not only have no benefit, it needlessly causes the single coded image

Re: [whatwg] img element comments

2006-11-04 Thread Spartanicus
anything. Documents containing content images without alt content are broken regarding this aspect, and they will remain so if img without an alt attribute is considered equal to img elements with alt=. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] HTML syntax: comments before doctype and doctype sniffing

2006-12-03 Thread Spartanicus
doing this? -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-21 Thread Spartanicus
Should give some indication. (I had to cheat slightly with MSN, the sneaky boys made the home page on msn.com validate to throw people off, but as I suspected the document at the first link from msn.com I tried failed validation :-) -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail

Re: [whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

2006-12-22 Thread Spartanicus
be (I'm a bad boy) reserved to the upper case usage of the word. I'm going back to lurk mode, as I've strayed well beyond the purpose of this list (sorry). -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] Clarify how to indicate document hierarchy

2007-02-12 Thread Spartanicus
best authoring practice is another argument that this is not something a specification should get involved with. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] Clarify how to indicate document hierarchy

2007-02-12 Thread Spartanicus
to such authoring guidelines accompanied with a warning that they are not necessarily endorsed by the group. The spec itself could then refer people looking for more verbose usage guidelines to that page. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Spartanicus
to reserve in the flow for the media and any player chrome. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] Clarify how to indicate document hierarchy

2007-03-15 Thread Spartanicus
Spartanicus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd much rather see different authors writing their own best authoring guidelines using their own argumentation and have these compete for adoption amongst peers. Having said that I felt obliged to write something on the subject myself. Part 1 is about

Re: [whatwg] video element proposal

2007-03-17 Thread Spartanicus
from one lossy format that is used on the web to another results in a significant reduction in quality compared to a non lossy source to lossy end format encoding, so you shouldn't make quality vs file size judgements based on that type of transcoding. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non

Re: [whatwg] video element feedback

2007-03-21 Thread Spartanicus
element instead. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)

Re: [whatwg] object, Flash, IE7

2007-03-21 Thread Spartanicus
file system, more relaxed when loading from a domain that falls under IE's Local intranet group, and most relaxed for domains in its Internet group. I was expecting the opposite and had tested by loading a file from my local file system. -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail

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

2007-03-27 Thread Spartanicus
to author content using that format to pay for the privilege. This is currently the case for mp3 [1]. Although afaik this isn't currently the case for non commercial usage, the rights holders can change that at any given moment. [1] http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/index.html#4 -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] Section nesting menu and an old HTML 3 friend LH

2007-03-31 Thread Spartanicus
be made where list headings would offer any potential benefit over using a p element (leaving aside the useless it isn't a paragraph argument). -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] Section nesting menu and an old HTML 3 friend LH

2007-04-03 Thread Spartanicus
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Re: [whatwg] Target Attribute Values

2007-04-26 Thread Spartanicus
option to opt out of windows being opened via target values be an alternative? It could avoid the seemingly unwin'able argument with authors who insist on doing this, and give users the final say Mozilla already offers such an opt out afaik. -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] Target Attribute Values

2007-04-28 Thread Spartanicus
opening in a new window, others will too. 2) When moving to another site, not opening a new window would cause my site to disappear (sometimes accompanied with the argument that this would confuse people). -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] Target Attribute Values

2007-04-28 Thread Spartanicus
is that they can't claim to be spec conforming. User demand for such UI features expressed to the manufacturer is one way to get such features implemented. Other web specs have seen fit to add their weight to get UI features implemented. -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] Target Attribute Values

2007-04-28 Thread Spartanicus
this. -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-24 Thread Spartanicus
of Microsoft and Apple, but will only ensure that HTML5 will never become fully supported in the major browsers. Support for the video element without a common codec may well become fully supported, but pointless. Consequently and with regret I favour removing video from the spec. -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-24 Thread Spartanicus
a will, there's a way. We have to do what is right, not what is politically acceptable. Frustrated as I am with the current state of affairs, I don't see any point in taking a principal stance if it will result in being ignored. -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-24 Thread Spartanicus
potential ignorance. Why create an HTML video element with the express purpose of supporting video natively in clients if video needs to be coded as a Java applet with Java handling it? And didn't MS stop including their Java in recent OSs after they lost the court case with Sun? -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-25 Thread Spartanicus
? -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-26 Thread Spartanicus
haven't yet decided what they are going to do. -- Spartanicus

Re: [whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the video element

2007-06-26 Thread Spartanicus
video. -- Spartanicus