Re: [whatwg] getElementsBySelector etc

2005-09-30 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Just a barely relevant observation for the moment: CSS selectors really ought to be their own language, separate from CSS spec. Kind of like XPATH/XSLT relationship. I am running with the microformats crowd (or should I say herd :) occasionally, and the CSS selectors are a great fit for searching

Re: [whatwg] getElementsBySelector etc

2005-09-30 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Doh! :) Are there any languages at the moment that utilize Selectors other than CSS? :DG On 9/30/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: Just a barely relevant observation for the moment: CSS selectors really ought to be their own language

Re: [whatwg] textarea accept attribute -- solution to rich text editing in WF2?

2005-08-24 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 8/24/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: Ian, I think the opposite is true, actually. Most of the browser-based HTML editors that I saw operate by augmenting functionality of a textarea element, and the accept attribute would work make

Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?

2005-08-23 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
I've been following this thread for a little while. I too think that the contentEditable is not done quite right. My biggest problem with it (and this was pointed out before) is that it is a half-way effort: there is markup that enables the editing, but there is no markup that provides any

Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?

2005-08-23 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 8/23/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote: Could we extend contentEditable in a way that would let the UA offer a non-scripting UI for saving the edited page? For example using the form attribute from WF2? What's wrong

Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?

2005-08-23 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 8/23/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, originally, HTML was supposed to be user editable always. Much like in Amaya. So contentEditable is more of a compromise between the original intent of the Web and the don't let them modify it! attitude that has grown since. I

[whatwg] textarea accept attribute -- solution to rich text editing in WF2?

2005-08-23 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
I may have spoken too soon on the absence of rich text editing textarea in WF2. Looking at the spec, there is an accept attribute for the textarea element, and its description fits the bill very nicely. If we have accept=text/html or accept=application/xml+xhtml, it is totally up to the UA to

Re: [whatwg] [html5] window.print() undefined

2005-07-19 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 7/19/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @media { navigation { display: none; } } Ok, at least we all agree that it's not what the user sees :) What functionality are you lacking? (Both in screen and print.) Like, adding contextual content for print. Just like your main content

Re: [whatwg] [html5] window.print() undefined

2005-07-19 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 7/19/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) To capture the essence of the browsing session, I would like to build a breadcrumb at the bottom of the printed page, displaying titles and urls of pages the user have visited on the site during this visit. That seems like something that

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-13 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 7/13/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Thomas wrote: Dean Edwards wrote: We don't display them. Should we? The native version does. See the Date-Picker section of http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch08c.asp. OK. We'll show

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms as data schema language

2005-07-06 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 7/6/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't a data schema language (although I suppose HTML has been abused for worst things). Why not? And what does abuse have anything to do with this? Could you please elaborate? :DG

[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.

Re: [whatwg] Canvas element

2005-04-20 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
I guess I am still struggling to grasp the concepts, so please be patient with me. Isn't the main functional value behind the canvas element is the rendering context? If so, what is the significance of the canvas element itself? Take away the behavior, and you've got yourself another SPACER tag.

Re: [whatwg] Canvas element

2005-04-20 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On 4/20/05, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the main functional value behind the canvas element is the rendering context? If so, what is the significance of the canvas element itself? Take away the behavior, and you've got yourself another SPACER tag. Not really. Since