Re: [whatwg] rel=bookmark

2017-08-08 Thread Kevin Marks
See also http://microformats.org/wiki/sharelink-formats for a (recent) related use case On 8 Aug 2017 7:01 pm, "Kevin Marks" <kevinma...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sounds like what we use uid for in microformats - the url that you > want as the persistent identifier. >

Re: [whatwg] rel=bookmark

2017-08-08 Thread Kevin Marks
s" <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > > On Aug 5, 2017, at 9:19 PM, Kevin Marks <kevinma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That use case sounds more like rel="canonical" > > You weren't the only one (myself included) who thought that. Michael

Re: [whatwg] rel=bookmark

2017-08-05 Thread Kevin Marks
That use case sounds more like rel="canonical" On 6 Aug 2017 2:07 am, "Ed Summers" wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone can provide any information, or a pointer to > previous discussion, about why the bookmark link relation can't be used > with the element [1]. > >

Re: [whatwg] metadata

2017-04-23 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Andy Valencia wrote: > === Dynamic versus static metadata > > Pretty much all audio formats have at least one metadata format. While > some apparently can embed them at time points, this is not used by any > players I can find. The

Re: [whatwg] What's the element for a paragraph label?

2016-09-08 Thread Kevin Marks
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:40 AM, David Singer wrote: > I am guessing that he'd like a consistent way to style the terms in a > ‘definition of terms’ section, the acronyms in a ‘list of acronyms’ section, > and so on. > > > defined terms > Fruit: delicious stuff that falls

Re: [whatwg] VIDEO and pitchAdjustment

2015-09-01 Thread Kevin Marks
t 4:03 , Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> > wrote: > > >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Kevin Marks <kevinma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> QuickTime supports full variable speed playback and has done for well > over > > >> a decade. W

Re: [whatwg] VIDEO and pitchAdjustment

2015-09-01 Thread Kevin Marks
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, David Singer <sin...@apple.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:36 , Kevin Marks <kevinma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I suppose the browser could generate this data the first time it reads > through the video. It would use a lo

Re: [whatwg] VIDEO and pitchAdjustment

2015-09-01 Thread Kevin Marks
QuickTime supports full variable speed playback and has done for well over a decade. With bidirectionally predicted frames you need a fair few buffers anyway, so generalising to full variable wait is easier than posters above claim - you need to work a GOP at a time, but memory buffering isn't the

Re: [whatwg] A mask= advisory flag for link rel=icon

2015-06-24 Thread Kevin Marks
Does this mean we can now have rel=icon with SVG instead of providing a bitmap for every iOS device specifically (when we add to homepage)? Do chrome and Firefox support SVG icon images? On 24 Jun 2015 2:40 pm, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Maciej

Re: [whatwg] Gapless playback problems with web audio standards

2014-10-25 Thread Kevin Marks
To get gapless, you need to be sample accurate, which is sub millisecond precision. A playlist element had been discussed before - making it the browser's job to be sample accurate. The quicktime plugin had a working version of this a decade ago; SMIL was supposed to be the way to do it, but a

Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-28 Thread Kevin Marks
Using a single JPEG/PNG that is also part of the home page display is a way to mitigate bandwidth used. Another way to do this is to use an SVG for a logo - which browsers support this now? On 28 Jul 2014 07:59, John Mellor joh...@google.com wrote: Chrome 30 dropped support[1] for fetching

Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-27 Thread Kevin Marks
some data here: http://indiewebcamp.com/icon On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: For link rel=icon we already define the /favicon.ico fallback. If a page lacks link rel=icon sizes we should probably also look at Apple's proprietary extension here given

Re: [whatwg] Supporting more address levels in autocomplete

2014-02-21 Thread Kevin Marks
Those names come from vcard - if adding a new one, consider how to model it in vcard too. Note that UK addresses can have this too - eg 3 high street, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, UK Would putting the 2 degrees of locality as comma separated in that field make more sense? Given that this schema is

Re: [whatwg] Supporting more address levels in autocomplete

2014-02-21 Thread Kevin Marks
On 21 Feb 2014 17:03, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Kevin Marks wrote: Those names come from vcard - if adding a new one, consider how to model it in vcard too. Note that UK addresses can have this too - eg 3 high street, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, UK That's

Re: [whatwg] Blurry lines in 2D Canvas (and SVG)

2013-07-25 Thread Kevin Marks
On chrome android I see the opposite - the left rests are sharp, the middle ones fuzzy. Sounds like tests needed. On Jul 23, 2013 5:18 PM, David Dailey ddai...@zoominternet.net wrote: Hi Rik, Just affirming what you've said in SVG: http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/edgeblurs.svg The middle

Re: [whatwg] picture / img srcset not needed

2012-05-17 Thread Kevin Marks
Jpeg 2000 has wavelet coding and progressive loading so you can stop at the desired resolution (if you decode on the read thread). Presumably it will be patent free by 2020... On May 16, 2012 3:57 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Aldrik Dunbar

Re: [whatwg] a rel=attachment

2011-07-15 Thread Kevin Marks
Enclosure is precisely this use case. You can go back and grep http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/entire-arch.txt for enclosure for the discussion if you like. After much debate, rel=enclosure was used to replace RSS's enclosure element, preserving the name. This will lead you back via the RSS specs

Re: [whatwg] The blockquote element spec vs common quoting practices

2011-07-14 Thread Kevin Marks
There is another common pattern, seen in blogging a lot, of putting the citation at the top eg As cite class=vcarda href=http://www.gyford.com/phil/; class=url rel=acquaintance met colleagueabbr title=Phil Gyford class=fnPhil/abbr/a/cite wrote about the a

Re: [whatwg] Google Feedback on the HTML5 media a11y specifications

2011-02-16 Thread Kevin Marks
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Philip, all, On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:01:38 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com wrote: 5. Ability to move captions

Re: [whatwg] need a way to set output format from StreamRecorder

2011-02-15 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net wrote: Kevin Marks kevinma...@gmail.com schrieb am Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:33:13 -0800: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: […] I haven't added anything here yet, mostly

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

2011-02-15 Thread Kevin Marks
Returning to this discussion, I think it is lacking in use cases. Consider the controllers we are used to - they tend to have frame step, chapter step and some kind of scrub bar. Frame stepping is used when you want to mark an accurate in or our point, or catch a still frame. This needs to be

Re: [whatwg] need a way to set output format from StreamRecorder

2011-02-14 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Per-Erik Brodin wrote: We are about to start implementing stream.record() and StreamRecorder. The spec currently says that “the file must be in a format supported by the user agent for use in audio and

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

2011-01-11 Thread Kevin Marks
to do proper time-code calculations it's essential to know both the video.duration and video.fps - and all I can find in the specs is video.duration, nothing in video.fps -Rob On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Kevin Marks kevinma...@gmail.com wrote: If you really want to test

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 video: frame accuracy / SMPTE

2011-01-10 Thread Kevin Marks
If you really want to test timecode, you need to get into SMPTE drop-frame timecode too (possibly the single most annoying standards decision of. all time was choosing 3/1001 as the framerate of NTSC video) Eric, can you make BipBop movie for this? - Like the ones used in this demo:

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

2010-12-09 Thread Kevin Marks
is not effective, IMHO. On Dec 8, 2010, at 23:11 , Kevin Marks wrote: Apologies for top posting; I'm on my phone. One case where posters come back after playback is complete is when there are multiple videos on the page, and only one has playback focus at a time, such as a page of preview movies

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

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Marks
Apologies for top posting; I'm on my phone. One case where posters come back after playback is complete is when there are multiple videos on the page, and only one has playback focus at a time, such as a page of preview movies for longer ones to purchase. In that case, showing the poster again

Re: [whatwg] need a way to set output format from StreamRecorder

2010-11-27 Thread Kevin Marks
For Audio at least, supporting uncompressed should be possible and uncontroversial, as there are clearly no patent issues here. Anyone serious about recording and processing audio would not consider recording compressed audio nowadays. T There are several widely used raw audio formats (.au, WAV,

Re: [whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Marks
Most video displays have non-square pixels. Standard definition video processing resolutions are 720 by 480 for NTSC and 720 by 576 for PAL though both are 4 by 3 aspect ratio. You can argue whether tv standards count as modern, but there are a lot out there. On 21 Nov 2010 16:56, Robert

Re: [whatwg] audio and video: volume and muted as content attributes?

2010-06-09 Thread Kevin Marks
Setting volume above 1.0 can be very useful if the original is too quiet. For example, Quicktime allows a volume of 300% to amplify quiet tracks On May 31, 2010 11:30 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phil...@opera.com wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:17:03 +0800, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com

Re: [whatwg] Give guidance about RFC 4281 codecs parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/11/07, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had to settle on one type that was valid for all files, to deal with the (common) case where the server was not willing to do introspection to find the correct type. We decided that audio/ promises that there isn't video, whereas video/

Re: [whatwg] Sequential List Proposal

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/10/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Marks wrote: I think the dialog example is a retrograde step. The olliciteq|blockquote pattern seems much better than redefining dt and dd, which will confuse XOXO parsers that try to be Postelian. Did I miss some reasoning

Re: [whatwg] Attribute for holding private data for scripting

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/11/07, Jon Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want structured data in this attribute, why not just use JSON? That's an idea that crossed my mind as well. I dismissed it for a few reasons: - authors would have to entitize quotes and ampersands in their attributes, which they're not

Re: [whatwg] Attribute for holding private data for scripting

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/11/07, Jon Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/11/07, Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/11/07, Jon Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want structured data in this attribute, why not just use JSON? That's an idea that crossed my mind as well. I dismissed

Re: [whatwg] Sequential List Proposal

2007-04-10 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/8/07, Elliotte Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michel Fortin wrote: So I propose a sl element (sequential list) which can be used to replace dialog as well as other things. The proposal can be found here: Sounds a little redundant with ol (ordered list). Also sounds needlessly

Re: [whatwg] List captions

2007-04-10 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/6/07, Elliotte Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Mabbett wrote: How often do we see something like: pAnimals:/p ul liCat/li liDog/li liHorse/li liCow/li /ul This would be more meaningful as: ul

Re: [whatwg] On the use of MPEG-4 as baseline codec

2007-04-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On 3/31/07, Asbjørn Ulsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've investigated a bit on the use of MPEG-4 as a baseline codec in the proposed video element, and my conclusion is that it can't be used with the current licensing terms. From the AVC/H.264 Agreement[1]: # For branded encoder and decoder

Re: [whatwg] Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin Marks
On 3/21/07, Chris Double [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looping is useful for more presentational uses of video. Start and end time are useful in case you want to package a bunch of small bits of video in one file and just play different segments, similar to the way content authors sometimes have