Re: [whatwg] Knuth and Plass algorithm; boxes & glue & penalties

2015-04-08 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
n a more general basis? -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howc...@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Use of media queries to limit bandwidth/data transfer

2011-12-19 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
ries were thought to be too far along the Recommendation track to > be fixed. color/color-index/monochrome/scan/grid are also somewhat dubious > in this day and age. There are enough e-ink devices out there for color/monochrome to still make sense. The others could probably b

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in- vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
that (and I'll do > it off list, for th sake of the whatwg mailing list :-) It's great if you can find information on this. I believe many people on this list would be interested, so I suggest you send it to the list. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howc...@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
in your new experimental service [4]. [4] http://www.youtube.com/html5 The web is based on free and open formats. Google would not have existed without the web. It will be a terrible tragedy if you tip the scales in favor of patent-encumbered formats on the web. We expect higher standards from you.

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-07 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
tuck to the terms > of the license instead of trying to parse the examples :) The example in #11 seems fairly clear. Do you see any incompatibilities between the example text and the general clauses? Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howc...@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-06 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Library. This if statement seems to be true, and I therefore still don't understand your reasoning. I do appreciate your willingness not discuss these matters, thou

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-06 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
tion. I also understand that the LGPL doesn't explicitly "require [anyone] to pass along patent rights we may have obtained elsewhere". However, it seems quite clear that the intention of #11 is to say that you cannot redistribute the code unless you do exactly that. What am I missing? -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howc...@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-01 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
elated > third-party is irrelevant as long as it doesn't prevent Party B from > granting people the rights LGPL 2.1 requires they grant them (namely, > only those rights it in fact received from Party A). Thanks for your willingness to discuss these matters. So, to be clear, you&#x

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

2009-01-03 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
bute may still be a more compelling option in a less-is-more way. It already exists and can easily be used for styling purposes. Styling is bait for authors to disclose semantics. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howc...@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Footnotes

2008-12-15 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
end" -- that's a presentational issue. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howc...@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] a and button

2008-10-19 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
this works: http://www.w3.org"; style="display:inline">W3C But, the markup isn't pretty. Also, I'd like for links to use the element. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] a and button

2008-10-19 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Philipp Serafin: > > http://www.w3.org/";>W3C > What's wrong with > > W3C It's not a link. I'd like for buttons to work as links so that they take me to a page when I click on them. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie

[whatwg] a and button

2008-10-19 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] The truth about Nokias claims

2007-12-14 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
h consensus and put the wording back in. That will restore faith in HTML5 for many. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

2007-12-11 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
ext can be revised. But not before. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

[whatwg] minor style issue

2007-10-28 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
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Re: [whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

2007-04-03 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
the quest for a better web. Not just a better element. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

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

2007-03-23 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Bjoern Hoehrmann: > > > the SVG 1.2 WD requires support for Ogg Vorbis: > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/media.html > >And as Håkon Wium Lie > >pointed out in another email, the latest SVG standard already mandates > >Vorbi

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-23 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
twice as efficient as MPEG2, > competitive with H264 and VC-1 and substantially more efficient > than Theora. Given that you are competitive with H264, are you also demanding the same kind of processing power? Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie

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

2007-03-22 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
losed source browsers -- except for vendors pushing a proprietary media platform. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] element feedback

2007-03-21 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Laurens Holst: > > is *very badly* implemented. It has been a decade since > > was first created and browsers STILL don't do it right in all cases (or > > even in most cases, frankly). Adding more complexity to such a disaster > > zone is bad design. > > If the existing pro

Re: [whatwg] ? ? css?

2007-03-20 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
s. For example, should the audio play in the background all the time? I can see some neat effects, but more frustrated users. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] element feedback

2007-03-20 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
d? On the right-click menu or somewhere where it doesn't take up space? -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-20 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
http://my.opera.com/saito/blog/show.dml/787937 http://coolastory.blogspot.com/2007/03/sv-web-builders-event-world-premier-of.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqC1URVytk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKXomOLraXg http://www.flickr.com/photos/biao/406571288/ http://www.flickr.com/phot

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-19 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
rld can use. If MPEG4 is the alternative, we might as well continue using Flash and . But it's not a world I want to live in. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-19 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
er, for whatever reason. Hopefully they will reconsider when Wikipedia starts using it for real. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-17 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
es devices with limited processing power. On the other hand, these devices may also have limited connectivity so compression is called for. It would be interesting to see a comparison of video quality vs. processing requirements. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-17 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
ding bet that computers we buy 40 years from now (the bet was entered into ten years ago) will be able to read web pages from 1997. I think it's time to add video and audio codecs to this select list. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-17 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
p in mind that the specs we designs must be usable in many types of enviroments. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-16 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
enefit of actually working in my web browser. It > also happens to be much simpler than the equivalent "HTML5" document. It doesn't work in my browser. What does the code do? -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-16 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
u mean make the elements themselves optional to support? Yes. If a vendor, for some reason, is unable to support the Ogg codecs, I think it's better that they (a) do not support , than (b) they support with proprietary codecs only. Interoperability has more value than conforma

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-16 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
ments (for whatever reason) can still comply with the spec. They can also support proprietary codecs through . -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-16 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Laurens Holst: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video > Correct me if I

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-15 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
or unresolved) patent claims. I don't think this is the case for the codecs on the other side of the t:video element. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] audio vs. video

2007-03-05 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
s inappropriate while video is appropriate or vice versa? I don't think so. Both deserve to be first-class citizens on the web and they are, therefore, entitled to their own element. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-03 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
so we shouldn't try to change it. Finally, I think open formats are better than closed formats. The standards we write should not be neutral on this. Perhaps we should not name specific formats, however, only require that codecs are freely available for use across all platforms? -h&kon

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
and that (b) many video formats are impossible to support on all devices (mostly due to legal issue), I think we should consider your proposal. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] element proposal

2007-03-01 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
a simple way to add video to HTML pages. I don't think one shoulr rely on other languages for this, although I'm perfectly happy supporting those other languages as well. Part of the reason why we could to this so quickly is the work we have done on SVG. -h&kon

Re: [whatwg] Hyphenation

2007-01-11 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
s follows: > `Don't wait for rec\-ord companies, re\-cord rec\-ords yourselves.' ­ is probably the best way to encode this. However, it can be done through CSS as well: Dont's wait for record companies, record yourself. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Hyphenation

2007-01-11 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
fy, e.g., which non-letters to treat as part of words and which to > give > special treatment. (As we all know, TeX hyphenates xxx-yyy as xxx- > yyy; in addition, the hyphen prohibits xxx and yyy from being hyphenated, > which may or may not be suitable depending on, e.g., column width.) > > How does Prince deal with these issues? Prince6 does't try to go beyond Tex. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Hyphenation

2007-01-10 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
ictionaries You can plug these into Prince as per: http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2006/p6/p6demo2.html I agree that browsers should read these dictionaries. However, the dictionaries don't have to ship with browsers -- they can be web resources just like style sheets and images are. -

Re: [whatwg] Hyphenation

2007-01-09 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
: http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2006/p6/p6demo2.html Currently, Prince will only hypenate paragraphs with 'text-align: justify'. I agree that hypenation is useful in other cases as well. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

2006-11-01 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
] http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/phd/#h-37 -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes

2006-10-31 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
() } > > ...to indicate where all those endnotes should go. The proposal suggests this: article::after { content: pending(endnote); } http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060919/#endnotes -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes

2006-10-31 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
121&rl=1 [4] http://people.opera.com/howcome/2005/ala/sample.html [5] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] How not to fix HTML

2006-10-30 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
print publishing in general [4][5]. All by way of HTML and CSS. [1] http://www.princexml.com/samples/ [2] http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/ibsen [3] http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2006/slogans/slogans.pdf [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol -h&am

Re: [whatwg] Canvas 2d methods

2006-07-02 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
ill not helping authors for some time anyway). It's still early in the life of the canvas element, and we still have the luxury of listening to good proposals. We can deal with the minor problems that arise, and authors down the road will have a more intuitive syntax. I like the proposal. Che

Re: [whatwg] css3-fonts: New values for generic font families

2006-07-02 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
eType Webfonts. http://news.com.com/Microsofts+forgotten+monopoly/2010-1032_3-6085417.html Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-06-07 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
eate a style sheet language for it (FOSI/DSSSL). Likewise with HTML. Given that CSS existed when MathML was created, I think the developers made a mistake by not creating a markup language that could be presented using existing CSS properties. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-02 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
an co-exist just like WebForms and XForms can co-exist. I agree with your other points, though -- nice list. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-02 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
mpelling case for adding math to HTML the simple way. Personally, I'm open to adding it to HTML5. How much would it add to the specification? -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.opera.com/howcome

Re: [whatwg] Comment Syntax and Parsing

2006-01-24 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Ian Hickson: > > > This triggers SGML comment parsing mode (which you don't want to be > > > testing) > > > in a number of browsers. > > > > Why? The closer we can define the behaviour to be compatible with existing > > standards mode behaviours, the better it will be for back