Re: [whatwg] ContextAgnosticXmlHttpRequest: an informal RFC

2005-03-10 Thread Jim Ley
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:18:16 -0600, Doron Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the code in Mozilla is well tested and already used in the wild. Could you point me at the tests? URL: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/webservices/docs/Soap_Scripts_in_Mozilla.html says

Re: [whatwg] WF2 changes: uri-url, ERROR_* constants dropped; status update

2005-03-23 Thread Jim Ley
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:32:28 +, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the repetition model but maybe it needs more work. But not much more. I feel we are very close to a simple yet useful mechanism. If we did separate it into a separate module then we would have time to tweak it...

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] Objection to autocomplete Attribute

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Ley
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:03:44 + (UTC), Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Instead of a password, the bank issues you with a hardware device that computes a one-time password that changes every minute. Which changes the security to a physical

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

2005-04-06 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 6, 2005 11:22 AM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I disagree with that statement anyway. Validators should not be non-conformant simply because they only do their job to validate a document and nothing else. Absolutely, if there is a continued use of a doctype, then a

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

2005-04-06 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 6, 2005 11:41 AM, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: and the mostly undefined error handling, what about HTML 5 will be so incompatible with SGML to warrant such a decision? One example:

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

2005-04-06 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 6, 2005 3:41 PM, Olav Junker Kjær [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: There are three types of conformance criteria: (1) Criteria that can be expressed in a DTD (2) Criteria that cannot be expressed by a DTD, but can still be checked by a machine. (3) Criteria that can only

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

2005-04-06 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 6, 2005 10:05 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 15:10, Lachlan Hunt wrote: XHTML variants of HTML 5 must be a conformant XML document instead, though I noticed that is not the case with square brackets in ID attributes in section 3.7.2 of WF2 That's not

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

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 7, 2005 11:51 AM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Entities. Or is that problem going to be solved by: use UTF-8? (Which would be something I wouldn't disagree with, although for mathematical symbols it might be a pain to enter

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

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 7, 2005 12:03 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They trigger standards mode in modern browsers. The current one for WHATWG specs is: Will the spec explain this some more, in particular could you document what standards mode is, and exactly how user agents should use this doctype

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

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Ley
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 something completely different, the whole point that anything that looks

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

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 7, 2005 6:59 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 7, 2005, at 09:58, Lachlan Hunt wrote: I don't think SGML validation is part of What WG conformance requirements. I thought Hixie has specifically said he doesn't bother with DTDs. Hixie is simply the editor of the spec,

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

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 7, 2005 8:30 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 7, 2005, at 21:49, Jim Ley wrote: this thread has shown clearly that many people contributing to the WHAT-WG work do use DTD's To me it seemed that you argued that DTD validation is more useful than other conformance

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

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 7, 2005 9:22 PM, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jim Ley wrote: From which you can clearly conclude I do use DTD validation as part of my QA process. All the people who have said that DTD validation is absolutely useless haven't bothered to describe

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

2005-04-08 Thread Jim Ley
On Apr 8, 2005 8:18 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. The proposed doctype !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//WHATWG//NONSGML HTML5//EN activates the standards mode in IE6. The proposed string that MUST appear as the first line of a WHAT-WG document is... please do not call it a doctype

Re: [whatwg] Scripting Tweaks

2005-04-20 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/20/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of setTimeout, where is this defined? Nowhere, and in fact the string method is the commoner implementation, there are a number of implementations which do not support a function reference. uniqueID is very useful, I to use it all the

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] Canvas element

2005-04-23 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/22/05, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 22, 2005, at 18:00, Jim Ley wrote: so should be in a rendering language like CSS? If you value hard-line anti-presentationalism over pragmatism. Er, There are very good reasons why the presentation is split, the most important

Re: [whatwg] Updating Location Bar for RPC Type Apps

2005-04-23 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/22/05, Olav Junker Kjær [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Neuberg wrote: Whenever I implement a DHTML (Ajax?) type app that needs to talk to the server without refreshing the client, such as through a hidden iframe or an XmlHttpRequest object, I always wish that I could update the window

Re: [whatwg] Canvas element - Keep It Simple

2005-04-24 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/24/05, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 23, 2005, at 22:16, dolphinling wrote: There's one implementation, and one implementation in testing builds. It would also be an easy change to make for those implementations (and they could still keep support for the old way if

Re: [whatwg] Canvas element - Keep It Simple

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/25/05, Brad Neuberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If successful shipped implementations is what matters, then there's lots of successful IE extensions that do the same as canvas and other elements which it would be much more sensible to go with. I'm not against that; I thought one

Re: [whatwg] Web Applications and 3D

2005-04-29 Thread Jim Ley
On 4/29/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: Please do not re-invent the wheel, but standardise this (or a subset) functionality. The supposed motivation of WHAT-WG is compatibility with IE6, VML and DirectAnimation provide 2D and 3D drawing contexts

Re: [whatwg] Web Applications and 3D

2005-05-04 Thread Jim Ley
On 5/4/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: Plug-ins are by their very nature optional. Why would we want to move functionality into object elements, which are by definition external objects like plug-ins? OBJECT is not by definition a plug-in, and Opera/Mozilla

Re: [whatwg] Web Apps 1.0: On-line help

2005-05-08 Thread Jim Ley
On 5/8/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 May 2005, Ben Meadowcroft wrote: There are two types of help that I think are appropriate for web applications, full page help and element sensitive help. The problem with both is discoverability. Unless we can solve that, there

Re: [whatwg] Using X3D in XHTML documents

2005-06-21 Thread Jim Ley
On 6/21/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: Now that I think about it, wouldn't the following be valid also?... | ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? | !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN | http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd;

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest: should UA pretend a 304 response is a 200?

2005-07-03 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/3/05, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jul 2005 at 21:30, Jim Ley wrote: It's trivial to work around That is obvious. However, *will* people work around it, or will the browser that is better at caching documents be at a disadvantage because web apps

Re: [whatwg] XMLHttpRequest: should UA pretend a 304 response is a 200?

2005-07-08 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/8/05, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may imply that a client with a cached document should return a status 200 when the requested document matches one in the cache (whether or not the UA has checked with the server if the resource is current). I wouldn't be

Re: [whatwg] Input type=date UI discussion

2005-07-12 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/12/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: On 7/12/05, Dean Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the customisation is just colours and chrome style. We'll attempt to guess the chrome style and replicate it. What I really mean is that we are copying the windows controls

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

2005-07-18 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/18/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would you suspend a timer? (And why would the UA not suspend the timers itself?) You're saying that when a user print's an HTML5 user agent MUST stop all setTimeout counters, I don't see that in the spec, nor why it would be an expectation of

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

2005-07-18 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/19/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: You're saying that when a user print's an HTML5 user agent MUST stop all setTimeout counters, I don't see that in the spec, nor why it would be an expectation of a scripter. So wait, we need to add new events because

Re: [whatwg] [html5] onbeforeprint/onafterprint (was window.print() undefined)

2005-07-19 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/19/05, J. Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jim Ley wrote: Someone will probably suggest CSS background-images as a suitable for this aswell, yet again ignoring the fact that CSS is _optional_, and content-images must not be in background images as they simply

Re: [whatwg] [html5] onbeforeprint/onafterprint (was window.print() undefined)

2005-07-21 Thread Jim Ley
On 7/20/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: This is another of the use cases I've used enhanced printing for - I actually generally used ScriptX http://www.meadroid.com/scriptx/ rather than simply the IE methods, but the events are all that's needed. Not paying

Re: [whatwg] removing attributes

2005-08-05 Thread Jim Ley
On 8/5/05, Olav Junker Kjær [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to remove a constraint like maxLength (on input elements) through script, eg. by setting it to null? By default a field does not have any maxlength constraint, so it would seem natural that if you set a constraint through

Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Ley
On 8/29/05, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Aug 2005 at 12:16, Ian Hickson wrote: contentEditable needs scripting anyway, to offer things like insert em element here, etc. Why must contentEditable depend on scripting? What if we make sure the wording of

Re: [whatwg] Semantics in WYSIWYG

2005-08-30 Thread Jim Ley
On 8/30/05, Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: WYSIWYG editing has to produce tag-soup, it's free of semantics, as the wysiwyg cannot know the semantics intended by the user, for that reason the only way is to limit the elements to those with only strong semantics - links

Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?

2005-08-30 Thread Jim Ley
On 8/30/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're talking about defining behavior for a semantic element. You're essentially dictating parts of the implementation of |contenteditable| to user agent vendors. Not at all, I'm saying the current implementation in IE is appropriate for

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

2005-09-02 Thread Jim Ley
On 9/2/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Why wouldn't you want the content in the element to be inserted by Javascript when the page loads when you can just include the content in markup and hide it using CSS? Not particularly wanting to support the OP's issue - I don't see a

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

2005-09-03 Thread Jim Ley
On 9/3/05, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ley wrote: Not particularly wanting to support the OP's issue - I don't see a problem with the change to the content model of a to require content, it's a good thing. However styling a link to print away is not a good idea

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

2005-09-05 Thread Jim Ley
On 9/5/05, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aankhen wrote: I suggest #2, which implies consistently treating the first argument passed to the function as a single class name to match (this means foo bar would always return no elements, No, as already demonstrated, #2 does return

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

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Ley
On 9/30/05, Robert O'Callahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/10/05, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Robert O'Callahan wrote: Then the UA might have to terminate any running script(s) (perhaps after warning the user and giving the user an option to cancel the