Re: [whatwg] Including HTML more directly into SVG

2012-09-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Robin Berjon ro...@w3.org wrote: foreignObject size=auto Bikeshedding: @seamless (q.v. iframe) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-09-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: It would help catch the not uncommon antipattern where the content of a link or button is provided only by a background image. a href=somewhere/a a href=somewhere

Re: [whatwg] Why won't you let us make our own HTML5 browsers?

2012-08-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] Why won't you let us make our own HTML5 browsers?

2012-08-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-values/#calc ? Indeed! And this is not only specified but being widely implemented: http://caniuse.com/calc There are also a lot of new CSS layout features in the pipeline (e.g. flexbox). So I don't see much of a future of HTML-layer or JS-layer layout. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Validator.nu: Attribute role not allowed on element h2 at this point.

2012-08-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to language features that might be usable one day … -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Why won't you let us make our own HTML5 browsers?

2012-08-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
with data-flow computations. Are you talking about something like the calculate property from XForms? Something that could handle simple event processing such as drop down menus Already got it. See select, menu, and @contextmenu. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Why won't you let us make our own HTML5 browsers?

2012-08-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] Conformance checking of missing alternative content for images

2012-08-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Would it be possible to combine this with the linter complaining about all controls (links, buttons, form fields) have markup that yield a non-empty accessible name without

Re: [whatwg] Linters should complain about missing accessible names for controls [Was: Re: alt= and the meta name=generator exception]

2012-08-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com wrote: Would it be possible to combine this with the linter complaining about all controls (links, buttons, form fields) have markup

[whatwg] Linters should complain about missing accessible names for controls [Was: Re: alt= and the meta name=generator exception]

2012-08-04 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
the not uncommon antipattern where the content of a link or button is provided only by a background image. a href=somewhere/a a href=somewhere-else/a button class=delete/button etc. I'm especially keen on hearing about plausibility from Henri and Michael. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] alt and title attribute exception

2012-07-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
(potentially long) equivalent text rather than being a short name for the image though. Once both @alt and @title can be used to provide what could loosely be called titling information, the rationale for presenting the two differently begins to weaken. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] alt and title attribute exception

2012-07-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
that it's non-conforming depends on applying it to individual aspects. That's not misreading the requirement, but it's not the only viable reading. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Features for responsive Web design

2012-05-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
RDFa's @property and @typeof are whitespace-separated lists of CURIEs: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/#extensions-to-the-html5-syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-core/#s_syntax -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] runat (or server) attribute

2012-05-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to be created (and discourage use of HTML-unfriendly and syntax-highlighter-unaware processing instructions)? server-side files to be created - what do you mean? What would this attribute do? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Implementation complexity with elements vs an attribute (responsive images)

2012-05-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
=a.jpg 600w 200h 1x, b.jpg 600w 200h 2x, c.jpg 200w 200h Perhaps changing the syntax to avoid confusion with units might help too: img src=a.jpg alt= set=a.jpg 600x200 1x, b.jpg 600x200 2x, c.jpg 200x200 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Implementation complexity with elements vs an attribute (responsive images)

2012-05-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] Implementation complexity with elements vs an attribute (responsive images)

2012-05-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
authors to support more than Webkit, witness the widespread inaccessibility of web services, etc. Depressing but true. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Implementation complexity with elements vs an attribute (responsive images)

2012-05-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
= set=a.jpg 600x200 1x, b.jpg 600x200 2x, c.jpg 200x200 /section section { /* generic style rules */ } section! img:intrinsic-aspect-ratio(2) { /* specific overrides for section when the UA picks the narrow image */ } -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Localisation of form fields

2012-05-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
and a localized display format? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Localisation of form fields

2012-05-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
enhance machine processing capabilities. Compare: http://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/content-formatting http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Mar/0575.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Considering a lang- attribute prefix for machine translation and intelligibility

2012-05-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
(e.g. microdata, microformats, RDFa). -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Footer inside header

2012-05-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Andrés Sanhueza peroyomasli...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/26 Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com: On Apr 26, 2012 5:39 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: according to the definition of footer, it appears that authorship information

Re: [whatwg] Considering a lang- attribute prefix for machine translation and intelligibility

2012-05-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
before the horse. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Footer inside header

2012-04-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Apr 25, 2012 9:20 PM, Andrés Sanhueza peroyomasli...@gmail.com wrote: I see no reason a footer as in textual metadata of a section can't be inside a header (lead of a section). Could this be considered to be allowed? Do you have a real example where you think that markup would be useful?

Re: [whatwg] Footer inside header

2012-04-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Apr 26, 2012 5:39 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: according to the definition of footer, it appears that authorship information is most appropriate to put there. But sometimes the byline is placed inside the header area, which is reasonably marked up with a header. Isn't

Re: [whatwg] Validator.nu: Attribute role not allowed on element h2 at this point.

2012-03-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
of ARIA markup _especially_ in those cases, where we do not discourage other JS-dependent initial markup like (say): button type=button (without an associated form) or a href=javascript: ... etc. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Support for RDFa in HTML5

2012-03-12 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
, the HTML5 spec allows extensions by other specifications. The HTML5+RDFa specification is making use of that facility. By writing an implementation that complies with HTML5+RDFa, you write an implementation that complies with both. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Allow Fallback Text to Render Section Titles in Outlines

2012-02-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
 /svg /h1 I feel that in both instances, Company Name should become the section title for the respective section. Doesn't the spec imply it should? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] add html-attribute for responsive images

2012-02-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] add html-attribute for responsive images

2012-02-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
many users then. No, a screenreader wouldn't read the tags. Maybe the people you talked to imagined you were talking about placing escaped markup into an attribute? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] add html-attribute for responsive images

2012-02-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
, source, object fallback content, and @hidden also give you the creeps? I just feel there’s something to be said for keeping the element consistent and self-contained. self-contained I'll grant, but consistent with what? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
between documents without executing script makes it much easier for automated agents to make use of those relationships. For example, Google PageRank delivers extremely good search results by analysing links expressed through this simple semantic markup. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-06 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
- including future features that allow rearrangement of the order of block content, for example: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/ We generally don't want to introduce markup features for problems that can be solved through better styling features. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-06 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 6.9.2011 12:40, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: [S]elf-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that is, in principle, independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication is a concept

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-06 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
). So this use case may be too narrow to support introducing core vocabulary. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-06 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
should evaluate it based on how it solves problems.) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment and ad elements

2011-09-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
microformats, microdata, or RDFa. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
, and the results of their labors will be dumped into the relevant HTML5 structural elements, as generated by code produced by the much smaller segment of authors with marginally better spec awareness. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
have buttons for address, cite, or even dl? If you want to use these elements you have to get your hands dirty, even if most of your page structure is generated. Indeed. Naturally, these elements don't occur in content authored by most people. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element

2011-09-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's reasonable to say that 0.01% or less of the _content_ on the web (as opposed to the _code_) is written by non-developers. Should of course have read: I think it's reasonable to say that 99.9

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a web application descriptor

2011-04-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Simon Heckmann si...@simonheckmann.de wrote: I have written a short document covering my proposal: www.simonheckmann.de/download/Proposal.pdf (3 pages, ~200KB) I can't open this PDF in Preview. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Extensible microdata attributes

2011-04-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
are likely to face an uphill struggle. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Extensible microdata attributes

2011-04-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
confused by your examples. What extractable statement are you trying to markup with microdata here? Is it: the United Nations is in New York? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Extensible microdata attributes

2011-04-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Brett Zamir bret...@yahoo.com wrote:  On 4/26/2011 5:33 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Brett Zamirbret...@yahoo.com  wrote: This would prevent the need for such ugly hacks as: span id=UnitedNations style=display:none

Re: [whatwg] Extensible microdata attributes

2011-04-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
information? http://microformats.org/wiki/principles http://tantek.com/log/2005/06.html#d03t2359 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Attitude and Direction of the WHATWG

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to which you allude? Or is UAAG2 missing some important advice? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] banner as a dedicated tag

2011-02-23 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/current-work/multipage/the-iframe-element.html#the-iframe-element I don't think this is a huge problem, though. Well, it is /a/ problem at any rate. http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/03/using-iframes-sparingly/ -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

[whatwg] Better reference for Windows 949?

2011-01-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/WINDOWS/CP949.TXT -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2011-01-01 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: It is covered by the WAI ARIA 1.0 LC doc. Note this usage is waiting on a putative change to WAI-ARIA to define its meaning when

Re: [whatwg] sic element, was: Re: Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Martin Janecke whatwg@kaor.in wrote: Am 30.12.2010 um 22:49 schrieb Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis: [snip] 1. What problem(s) does indicating where mistakes have been reproduced solve? I understand the question in this context as a concrete formulation

Re: [whatwg] sic element, was: Re: Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
stating the fact: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America#Section_2 I don't see that the comment adds anything that q and blockquote do not. I meant to say: a comment seems to work fine here. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/states_and_properties#aria-selected -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Submitting form question

2010-12-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
sometimes, but it sure is precise. -- -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] sic element, was: Re: Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-30 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
vocabulary imported into HTML via annotations like RDFa, microdata, or microformats? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] comment element in HTML5 Spec?

2010-12-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
#the-address-element -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Tag Proposal: spelling

2010-12-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-wai-aria-20100916/complete#aria-invalid -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
either unless you enable the Developer menu. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] element img with HTTP POST method

2010-12-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-in cameras. Info and generator: QR codes have a maximum capacity of 7,089 characters, well within the 10,000 characters requirement I suggest above. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-03 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com wrote: Allowing UAs explicitly to provide information via dedicated optional fields is different to requiring UAs them to leak it in the course of providing another service (such as spelling). It's worth noting

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-03 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
with the IME provider. It might also be worth documenting techniques for accessible IMEs in UAAG. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-03 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
at the extension level would at least work with all text entry controls across the web, rather than just individual sites. I think groups who should be involved in a discussion around API convergence include CommonJS and the GreaseMonkey community. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-12-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: On 11/28/2010 11:30 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Breaches would include:    1. Detecting the user's language (including fine distinctions like British/US English).    2. Fingerprinting the user's system. Different

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-11-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
from the two menus together, or provide the page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html#context-menus -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-11-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

2010-11-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
and roll your own over XHR/web sockets. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/editing.html#spelling-and-grammar-checking -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Form element invalid message

2010-09-22 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
), for emphasis (strong), to differentiate keyboard input (kbd), etc. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Form element invalid message

2010-09-22 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
not the end all be all solution for validations but it does also keep continue the paradigm. New features should perpetuate the good paradigm represented by the label element, not the bad paradigm represented by the title attribute. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Html 5 video element's poster attribute

2010-09-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Html 5 video element's poster attribute

2010-09-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
not require justification. I'm not saying your new feature is without any justification. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Have tabstrip / tab elements been discussed?

2010-08-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] Have tabstrip / tab elements been discussed?

2010-08-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
more like commands in a toolbar than a tablist. Couldn't you use the menu element? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html#menus -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Two propositions for the autofocus attribute

2010-04-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
, the first focused control in the dialog can be changed without touching the script. Maybe I'm just missing the problem you're trying to solve here? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-08-16 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. Titles of works are commonly distinguished from surrounding text and italics is a common format for many titles of works would statements that would be hard to argue with. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Alt attribute for video and audio

2009-08-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-20081211/G58.html Do these features meet your requirements? If not, why not? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Alt attribute for video and audio

2009-08-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to a description to be exposed to system accessibility APIs. So they are rather different. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Alt attribute for video and audio

2009-08-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 10/08/2009 00:12, Remco wrote: Shouldn'tvideos andaudios (and maybeobjects too?) also have an alt attribute? Bearing in mind: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#text-equiv and http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#media-equiv What function would alt on video serve? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] slideml

2009-07-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
presentation) for web !! What's wrong with SMIL, or, if you want to use HTML, something like http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1) , perhaps updated with the CSS transitions and animations being discussed by the CSS WG? http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] A new attribute for video and low-power devices

2009-05-19 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
=presentation. http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#presentation -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Input type for phone numbers

2009-03-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
and what these symbols mean? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Rendering of interactive content

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 8/2/09 13:18, Giovanni Campagna wrote: 2009/2/8 Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com mailto:bhawkesle...@googlemail.com On 7/2/09 20:07, Giovanni Campagna wrote: Yes, but what properties should I query for? In order to find out what, precisely? What to reset

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Rendering of interactive content

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
). The color of course is a matter of visual themes and platform. http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-February/018408.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Rendering of interactive content

2009-02-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
are free to use any method they like to mimic the suggested rendering, including CSS3 UI where applicable. They don't have to use BE CSS at all. If this is not obvious from the text, perhaps you would like to suggest a change to the text that would make it clearer? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Rendering of interactive content

2009-02-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-USERAGENT/guidelines.html#gl-user-control-styles -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] [html5] Rendering of interactive content

2009-02-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
reflecting a target market's differing preferences for presentation, rather than require the users to configure it first? Are you proposing such a UA should be non-conforming? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] List Headers

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. I believe nesting blocks inside p elements is currently allowed in the XML serialization, however, since HTML5 does not face the same web-corpus-parsing constraints there. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-02-04 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-readable equivalent (i.e. it's a more markup-like way of doing things). My feeling is that the cost of bad designs for embedded data is (1) unavoidable and (2) less than the benefits of avoiding misuse of other (X)HTML features for embedding data. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] List Headers

2009-02-04 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. Then we could be sure we're solving a real problem. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 fo ecommerce

2009-01-23 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
you're attempting to solve additional problems (data extraction? special navigation?). Naming elements tends to be a case of choosing the least worst option, unfortunately. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
be for private use only and turning it into a distributed extension point may be worse than the alternatives. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
elaborated above. It wouldn't change the language by the back door. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
you could download an image, change its licencing metadata, and host it at your own Origin? Admittedly, that's a little more work than just hotlinking. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Semantics and related feedback

2008-12-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to be represented on the web or that i doesn't actually deliver media independence on this front. i plus microformats might. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] (X)HTML + SMIL?

2008-12-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. Does anyone remembermarquee ? That's a bad example. MARQUEE was never standardized in a specification, so it was never possible to deprecate it. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Proposal of an author element

2008-12-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
and one or more Q or BLOCKQUOTE elements. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Phrasing semantics feedback omnibus

2008-12-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

2008-12-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
suggestion above). Gradually, n° 3 will disappear, because there's no actual needing for HTML. Except on the ad-supported web… -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Citing multiple blockquote elements in HTML5

2008-12-02 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. They are generally patterned after the (unwritten) rules that existing user agents follow, for backwards compatibility reasons. Duplicated id attributes, sadly, are not that rare. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-30 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
timeless wrote: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately, a user agent or user can always reject presentational fluff. designing a user interface to enable users to tell their user agent to ignore such content ends up being more complicated and problematic than supporting

Re: [whatwg] Comments and questions on Web Apps 1.0

2008-11-30 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
and BLOCKQUOTE, without a distinguishing element makes matters substantially harder. And even if we had a CREDIT element as Simon suggests, I'm not sure how that would allow authors to quot[e] text that happens to have its attribution. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

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