Re: [whatwg] New feature: better integration with browser find interface

2015-06-23 Thread David Young
, that would be a consistent and learnable way for users to limit their searches. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

[whatwg] Knuth and Plass algorithm; boxes glue penalties

2015-04-07 Thread David Young
, now, would be tractable with the right HTML/CSS primitives. If you have something like this underway, please get in touch. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Modify the Page Visibility spec to let UA's take into account whether iframes are visible on the screen

2015-04-01 Thread David Young
on, definitely shouldn't get a prime share unless the user has made an explicit grant. Give the bulk of the resources to what you could conceivably be looking at. Do you see what I'm getting at? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-13 Thread David Young
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:05:03AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:56 AM, David Young dyo...@pobox.com wrote: The algorithms don't have to run as fast as possible, they only have to run fast enough that the system is responsive to the user. If there is a motion

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-09 Thread David Young
for. Is there some reason that the web platform does not support this approach? Is there some reason that this approach doesn't fit the use cases you mention? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread David Young
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:05:35PM -0700, Rik Cabanier wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:10 AM, David Young dyo...@pobox.com wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 10:49:00AM -0700, Adam Barth wrote: Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports

Re: [whatwg] Media sink device selection on audio/video

2014-04-07 Thread David Young
a microphone from an app? How do I know which microphones are connected to which apps? Ian's proposal seems to offer this visibility and control to the user. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: requestBackgroundProcessing()

2014-02-20 Thread David Young
think that if I was going to make engineering suggestions, they would be for the browser makers, not for you, Ashley. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] We should not throw DOM Consistency and Infoset compatibility under the bus

2013-01-11 Thread David Young
by application JavaScript. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] menu and friends

2013-01-04 Thread David Young
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:34:11PM -0800, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:17 AM, David Young dyo...@pobox.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 01:23:20AM +, Ian Hickson wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Eric Sh. wrote: I was trying out the HTML5 context menu in firefox

Re: [whatwg] menu and friends

2012-12-29 Thread David Young
menu (click), and a second gesture for the app context menu (shift-click), OR 2) always add the UA items to the context menu in consistent places, for example by adding app-specific context menu items after UA items Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Submitting contentEditable Content In A Form

2012-10-20 Thread David Young
. Mainly I am interested in collaborating with others to develop new web-editing practices. If you can refer me to a more suitable list for that sort of discussion, I would owe you a debt of gratitude. Now, back to lurking mode. :-) Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721

[whatwg] content editing (was Re: Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText)

2012-09-05 Thread David Young
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:55:04AM +0300, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Young dyo...@pobox.com wrote: I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? execCommand() does vastly more complicated

Re: [whatwg] Should editable elements have placeholder attribute?

2012-08-31 Thread David Young
it is necessary to insert two spaces before a br appears; the br cannot be deleted, not even by inserting a space. :-) Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Should editable elements have placeholder attribute?

2012-06-16 Thread David Young
are there in each of those strings? I think that if there is more than one possible cursor position, then the state of the editor is some content instead of no content. I submit that only the empty string (value == '') is no content. :-) Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721

Re: [whatwg] Should editable elements have placeholder attribute?

2012-05-02 Thread David Young
and indicates its presence. You could use a return symbol, ⏎, or interpunct, ·, for the purpose. In the example pfont color=redbr/font/p, color that character red. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

2012-04-30 Thread David Young
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:30:20PM -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 4/29/12 11:24 PM, David Young wrote: It seems that the text contents of atextarea, at least, could be properly in the DOM? Not really: when you type in a textarea, that doesn't change its actual DOM kids. Both per spec

Re: [whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

2012-04-30 Thread David Young
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:55:04AM +0300, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Young dyo...@pobox.com wrote: I'm curious what advantages document.execCommand() has over the customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? execCommand() does vastly more complicated

Re: [whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

2012-04-29 Thread David Young
() has over the customary DOM API for adding/deleting/moving nodes? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

2012-04-29 Thread David Young
means in this context), is that for some reason, or is it just a historical artifact? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: [whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

2012-04-29 Thread David Young
attribute instead of a subordinate text node, so I suppose DOM Range may be less sensible and/or more difficult to apply there. If Ryosuke wants to use one API to address ranges of text be they part of a text control or not, then that makes sense to me. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.com