Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-14 Thread S. Mike Dierken
- HTTP doesn't have sessions, that's a fiction that server authors created Sorry. You are quite correct. I've been sloppy with my language. (Hopefully I'll get it correct this time :-) ) I was being overly pedantic, sorry. Bad habit. I knew what you meant... So you want some standard

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-14 Thread S. Mike Dierken
Yeah, I guess that's all you really need. Perhaps if a new HTTP status code was created, to signify the logout, then that would work. So, for example: #1: The user clicks a logout button. #2: This POSTs the form. #3: This causes the server to clean up and return the new HTTP

Re: [whatwg] canvas reading ???

2005-06-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Hello, I know people are going to want to read individual or groups of pixel values. Certain image processing algorithms require it. (For example, certain edge detection algorithms. Etc. There's alot of different ones.) The problem

Re: [whatwg] canvas reading ???

2005-06-14 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On 6/14/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Hello, I know people are going to want to read individual or groups of pixel values. Certain image processing algorithms require it. (For example, certain edge detection

Re: [whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-14 Thread Dean Edwards
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: IMO, it would be better to a have solution to this built into the API. Maybe with some kind of drawing transaction. (A draw transaction is a little higher level than double buffering, and allows you use other systems for this, other than

Re: [whatwg] OBJECT as a link target?

2005-06-14 Thread Dean Edwards
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: Dear list, often a page needs to interact with a plugin and tell it to load another file. Today this is of course done with JavaScript, which is difficult because most plugins have different JS interfaces, and there are also differences between the plugins' ActiveX

Re: [whatwg] OBJECT as a link target?

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Biesinger
S. Mike Dierken wrote: This assumes setting the 'data' attribute causes the object to be notified it would then re-load. Or maybe it's getting the object implementors to code this up that is the problem? FWIW, I plan to make this work in Gecko 1.9. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-14 Thread Dean Edwards
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: From what I undestood (from what Sjoerd Visscher was saying), is that there is no need for drawing transactions because of the way things are done with JavaScript and the DOM. Thanks for the very good explanation of drawing transaction. I wasn't entirely

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-14 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On 6/14/05, S. Mike Dierken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I guess that's all you really need. Perhaps if a new HTTP status code was created, to signify the logout, then that would work. So, for example: #1: The user clicks a logout button. #2: This POSTs the form.

Re: [whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Biesinger
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: This isn't needed. Just like in normal HTML a drawing transaction is automatically started when the javascript code starts Are the canvas functions JavaScript-specific? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-14 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
Christian Biesinger wrote: Sjoerd Visscher wrote: This isn't needed. Just like in normal HTML a drawing transaction is automatically started when the javascript code starts Are the canvas functions JavaScript-specific? Ehm, no. Actually the automatic drawing transactions story applies to

[whatwg] [html5] 2.8. Edits

2005-06-14 Thread Henrik Lied
I agree with Anne here, I don't think this is a suitable usage-area for INS and DEL. But instead of attaching attributes to the ARTICLE-element, I think I would have done something like this: article pOriginal, unmodified content/p edit type=inserted altered={datetime type UTC} pInserted

Re: [whatwg] canvas tag and animations ?

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Biesinger
Sjoerd Visscher wrote: Christian Biesinger wrote: Sjoerd Visscher wrote: This isn't needed. Just like in normal HTML a drawing transaction is automatically started when the javascript code starts Are the canvas functions JavaScript-specific? Ehm, no. Actually the automatic drawing

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-14 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
On 14 Jun 2005 at 0:07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Yeah, I guess that's all you really need. For HTTP authentication, it probably is. But I was also looking for a generic way to let the UA know when a page is a part of a session whether that session is established with forms login or

Re: [whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

2005-06-14 Thread S. Mike Dierken
I was doing some Mozilla hacking once, and just checking out the source code from CVS and compiling it took forever. Tell me about it... over the weekend i tried building Mozilla on a Windows machine. It took six hours of configuration work just to get to be able to run make and see my first