[whatwg] Comment about WF2 and the readonly attribute restriction

2005-04-21 Thread Frederic Simard
I have some concern about restriction on the applicability of the readonly attribute on some of the form elements. The readonly attribute should be applicable to all form elements that can change. This means that the elements that should not support the readonly attribute is the output and button

[whatwg] WA1 Section 2

2005-04-21 Thread Dean Edwards
Ian, I'm not sure that Section 2 of WA1 belongs in the spec. None of it seems to have much to do with web applications and it makes up 50% of the document. I know I've said this before but shouldn't this be a separate document? Wasn't that the plan for the other bits and pieces of HTML5

[whatwg] Re: WA1 Section 2

2005-04-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Dean Edwards wrote: I'm not sure that Section 2 of WA1 belongs in the spec. None of it seems to have much to do with web applications and it makes up 50% of the document. I originally would have agreed, however when making the Web Forms 2 spec one important piece of

Re: [whatwg] Scripting Tweaks

2005-04-21 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/21/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Speaking of setTimeout, where is this defined? http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#settimeout OK. That's twice in one day. I'm off to read the WA1 spec It's rather odd though, as it's been defined

Re: [whatwg] Comment about WF2 and the readonly attribute restriction

2005-04-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Frederic Simard wrote: I have some concern about restriction on the applicability of the readonly attribute on some of the form elements. The readonly attribute should be applicable to all form elements that can change. This means that the elements that should not

Re: [whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM

2005-04-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, fantasai wrote: Jim Ley wrote: Or at the very least use something that would not confuse people into thinking that it is an application of SGML or XML. Do you want to replace NONSGML with THIS-IS-NOT-SGML? No, I want to replace !DOCTYPE - with

[whatwg] Some likeness of DOM Session scope

2005-04-21 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
IMHO, one of the biggest obstacles for growth in Web applications development is the fact that the entire application lives in the scope of one request. Once next request is made, the browser essentially forgets everything and the whole new cycle of loading, initialization, and binding begins.