Re: [whatwg] window.opener security issues (Was: WhatWG is broken)

2016-12-08 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 12/02/2016 08:47 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> >> On 12/2/16 11:34 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: >>> >>> It seems that CSP behavior has radically changed since the last time I >>> looked at it >> >> >> I can't speak to when you last looked

Re: [whatwg] A plea to Hixie to adopt

2012-12-13 Thread Tantek Çelik
This was meant to follow-up to Henri's message[1]: [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-December/038219.html but for some reason that didn't make it to my archives so I'm replying to the latest message on this thread that did. tl;dr: Having previously opposed the additi

[whatwg] should we add beforeload/afterload events to the web platform?

2012-01-09 Thread Tantek Çelik
WebKit supports a 'beforeload' event [1] which is supported in shipping Safari and Chrome[2] and apparently has (enabled) the real-world use-cases of: 1. Performance. Reducing bandwidth use / HTTP requests, e.g. AdBlock extension[2] 2. Clientside transformations, e.g. Mobify[3] As might be expec

Re: [whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Tantek Çelik
See RFC 5870[1] for a proposed standard geo URI scheme for "geo:" hyperlinks. - Tantek [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5870 On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:27, Matthew Slyman wrote: > http://forums.whatwg.org/bb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4725 > [Topic has been on forum for 2 weeks without reply. Now post

Re: [whatwg] Fullscreen

2011-10-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
Hi Anne, Fullscreen is currently #2 in my queue after getting another LCWD of CSS3-UI out. I've been incrementally editing on the wiki page you mentioned until it's my primary focus. Feel free to make edits to the wiki if there are particular aspects you want to improve or raise as issues.

Re: [whatwg] Question: rel="help"

2011-09-29 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:12, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 29.9.2011 20:50, Tantek Çelik wrote: > >> Javascript-only help text (tooltip or otherwise) or any other content > >> intended for human consumption is a really bad idea for all the usual >> reasons >> (#a11y

Re: [whatwg] Question: rel="help"

2011-09-29 Thread Tantek Çelik
Schalk, Javascript-only help text (tooltip or otherwise) or any other content intended for human consumption is a really bad idea for all the usual reasons (#a11y, mobile, search etc.) Consider adjusting your content design to incorporate the help text instead (perhaps with either the respecti

Re: [whatwg] adding microdata to basic links

2011-08-24 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:22, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet >> wrote: >> > Starting from a basic markup like this: >> > [[[ >> > This book has been authored by http://smith.org/john";

Re: [whatwg] a rel=attachment

2011-07-15 Thread Tantek Çelik
. ;) Tantek -Original Message- From: Peter Kasting Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:20:54 To: Cc: Glenn Maynard; ; Jonas Sicking; whatwg; Darin Fisher; Subject: Re: [whatwg] a rel=attachment On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: > * existing rel="enclosure" spec -

Re: [whatwg] a rel=attachment

2011-07-15 Thread Tantek Çelik
Agreed with Glenn, narrowing the semantic solves this problem neatly: * filename="" attribute - what to name the file if saved by the user (by whatever means) * existing rel="enclosure" spec - download the link when clicked/activated. So the author can choose to do one, or the other, or both. Cl

Re: [whatwg] proposal: extend to markup durations

2011-07-14 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 14:51, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Tantek Ã~Gelik wrote: >>> Some in the microformats community have been making good use of the >>> element, e.g. for publishing hCalendar, and implementing >>> consum

Re: [whatwg] Styling

2011-07-14 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 15:21, Ian Hickson wrote: > > (This isn't the final reply on this thread, but I thought I should give a > heads-up as to the general direction I am expecting us to go in here.) > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> >>   We've been experimenting with the styling of

Re: [whatwg] a rel=attachment

2011-07-14 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 13:46, Darin Fisher wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Tantek Çelik > wrote: >> >> 2011/7/14 Darin Fisher : >> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> > >> >> 2011/7/14 Ian Fette (イアンフェ

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

2011-07-14 Thread Tantek Çelik
In agreement with Jeremy, I too have found the blockquote/q cite attribute to be nearly as ignored as the longdesc attribute, despite having conducted talks and written tutorials about how to use the cite="" attribute (makes me think that the non-visible-effect-URL attributes on elements should be

Re: [whatwg] a rel=attachment

2011-07-14 Thread Tantek Çelik
2011/7/14 Darin Fisher : > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > >> 2011/7/14 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) >> >> > Many websites wish to offer a file for download, even though it could >> > potentially be viewed inline (take images, PDFs, or word documents as an >> > example). Traditio

[whatwg] proposal: extend to markup durations

2011-07-14 Thread Tantek Çelik
Some in the microformats community have been making good use of the element, e.g. for publishing hCalendar, and implementing consuming/converting hCalendar [1] with good success. It would be great if the element could support expressing durations as well for the use cases as needed by the hMedia

[whatwg] Please (re)consider explicitly allowing marking up speaker names with (new information)

2010-08-13 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: there has been longstanding discussion about the use (or not) of to markup names of speakers. From original intent of , to references to the Chicago Manual of Style, to the practicality of it just being an alias for . I (and others) have done a bunch of research and documentation of add

[whatwg] Minor editorial fix: Section 4.6.9 The time element - first example needs update

2010-08-11 Thread Tantek Çelik
The first markup example in section 4.6.9 needs updating: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element Current Example and text: === snip === http://www.web2con.com/";>http://www.web2con.c

[whatwg] Please consider syntax processing improvements for better DRY and thus more accurate data over time

2010-08-10 Thread Tantek Çelik
We know from experience with past methods of duplicated invisible (meta)data, and more recently, development/use/experience with visible microformats, that when we are able to re-use the visible data, published *once*, by humans for humans, we get more accurate data over time, than when we have at

[whatwg] Please consider impedance matching and datetime types

2010-08-09 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: HTML5 provides mechanisms for both semantically inputting datetime values (via the 6 new datetime types), and semantically outputting datetime values (via the new element). However, the types/granularities of dates and times that are supported do not match up on input vs output, and the

Re: [whatwg] Please consider adding a couple more datetime types - type="year" and type="month-day"

2010-08-08 Thread Tantek Çelik
ently of the month and > day types just for things like validating the length of the months? In my opinion the use cases for it are just as (if not more) common as are (would be) for input type="week", e.g. birthdays, new holidays. Thanks for the questions, I've added them to a n

[whatwg] Please consider adding a couple more datetime types - type="year" and type="month-day"

2010-08-08 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: the 6 new datetime types are quite useful for a variety of use-cases but could use 2 more that fit in with the current set. In addition to current new absolute types of "date", "week", "month", it makes sense to add type="year" as well for choosing a year value. And in addition to the c

[whatwg] Please consider allowing the element to accept coarser granularity dates

2010-08-07 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: the new element is very useful for absolute dates and times, but omits several useful granularity levels, in particular for dates. The following additional date granularities would be useful, and are fairly straightforward to incorporate into the spec (and implementations): * year only:

[whatwg] Please consider making more generic/flexible (or renaming)

2010-08-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: the new element is very generic sounding but has a very special purpose (only allowed inside ). It would be helpful if we made it more generic, in particular allow use of inside (and perhaps ) to provide general "summary" text semantics (e.g. this paragraph :), and a potential enhancem

Re: [whatwg] Please consider dropping the "sandbox" attribute from the element

2010-08-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: > >> Summary: The new 'sandbox' feature on should be considered >> for removal. It needs a security review, it will be a lot of work to >> implement

[whatwg] Please consider dropping the "sandbox" attribute from the element

2010-08-01 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: The new 'sandbox' feature on should be considered for removal. It needs a security review, it will be a lot of work to implement properly, and may not actually solve the problem it is intending to solve. More details here: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Iframe_Sandbox I encourage fellow w

[whatwg] Please consider simplifying authoring guidance for the alt attribute

2010-08-01 Thread Tantek Çelik
With acknowledgement of existing issues (e.g. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/80 ) on the topic: Summary: Please consider simplifying authoring guidance for the alt attribute, such as dropping the document is an e-mail and meta generator cases. More details provided on the wiki: http:/

[whatwg] Please consider adding "timeref" attribute to and elements

2010-07-29 Thread Tantek Çelik
Summary: add a new timeref attribute (of type idref) to and elements that can be used to reference the id of a local to document element which is then used as the datetime value of when the deletion or insertion occurred. Advantages: 1. encourage more visible data (dates in visible content insi

[whatwg] Please consider allowing and attribute to accept only a date

2010-07-28 Thread Tantek Çelik
In short: the datetime attribute (on both del and ins elements) should permit just a date value, in addition to permitting explicit dates with times. Reasoning/advantages provided on the wiki: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Del_element I encourage fellow web authors to add opinions/comments to that