Re: [whatwg] Image maps: should we drop ?

2005-09-01 Thread fantasai
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Yup, it is indeed nice; if image maps had been designed that way from the start it would make sense. But it's not _that_ much nicer than , which we could define as allowing: ... ... ...which isn't much wo

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] The a element could be empty

2005-09-01 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Simon Pieters wrote: It is easier to use an empty a element as a placeholder to grab and use with scripts later on, for instance: With: var elm = document.getElementById("print"); elm.href = "javascript:window.print()"; elm.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Print this page")); ..

[whatwg] [WA1] The a element could be empty

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, The spec currently says[1]: |The a element must not be empty. I think it would be more useful if it was changed to: |If the a element has an href attribute set, then the element must not be empty. It is easier to use an empty a element as a placeholder to grab and use with scripts late

Re: [whatwg] On tag inference

2005-09-01 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Aug 29, 2005, at 22:29, Henri Sivonen wrote: What kind of approach to tag inference can HTML5 be expected to take? For an SGML validator that is parsing HTML 4 the set of possible element names is finite. However, a browser needs to deal with an infinite set of a potential elements names. T

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - Suggestion/Request

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Dwight Brown wrote: > > I have been reviewing the Web Forms 2.0 specification and really like > the many advancements it outlines. Great! > There is, however, one area in which it appears to overlook: file upload > status. > > As a web developer I believe it would be ver

[whatwg] some feedback on Web Apps 1.0 client-side storage

2005-09-01 Thread Robert O'Callahan
3.4.2 "DOM Node objects" browser DOM nodes often have state that isn't apparent in the DOM --- e.g., the contents of a , or the state of form controls. Please clarify that this state is not restored and ONLY the listed attributes and children may be restored. 3.4.2 "other objects" this is entirely

[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - Suggestion/Request

2005-09-01 Thread Dwight Brown
Hello, I have been reviewing the Web Forms 2.0 specification and really like the many advancements it outlines. There is, however, one area in which it appears to overlook: file upload status. As a web developer I believe it would be very helpful to have some way to indicate the progress o

[whatwg] Status update

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Hickson
Quick update of where things stand: Web Forms 2 --- http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ I made a new archive copy today so that changes after today will have diffs to today rather than the July archive copy. This spec is basically done. It's still in feature freeze (no new