Re: [whatwg] HTML vs Plain Text in Notifications

2008-09-12 Thread Dmitry Titov
Thanks guys for the comments! Language-tagging indeed would be hard. I've tried to change the portion of the spec to reflect this change, to see how it would change. Here is a copy of that part, modified: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhg4xn62_27c8qfqsgq I also have a small case study doc on

Re: [whatwg] HTML vs Plain Text in Notifications

2008-09-11 Thread Julian Reschke
Dmitry Titov wrote: ... The text-based box has following problems: - Not enough formatting capabilities even for simple cases (calendar appointment and mail notification). - No mechanism to update content (as in upload progress indicator scenario) - No way to add interactive features (snooze

[whatwg] HTML vs Plain Text in Notifications

2008-09-10 Thread Dmitry Titov
Hi, I'd like to comment on Notifications part of the spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#notifications In short, I think those notifications should be more like a balloon popups or toasts with content rendered by the user agent in HTML form. Currently, they are spec'ed as 3

Re: [whatwg] HTML vs Plain Text in Notifications

2008-09-10 Thread Greg Houston
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Dmitry Titov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So instead of: script function callback() { ... } ... window.showNotification(You've got mail!, From: Santa Claus, What's in your