Re: [whatwg] Attribute for holding private data for scripting

2007-04-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 12, 2007, at 01:45, Michael A. Puls II wrote: On 4/11/07, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of establishing an attribute such as script-private where authors would be free to stick anything for retrieval by scripts. What would happen with embed

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Maciej Stachowiak schrieb: ... Besides the backslash thing, there are a number of URI processing rules that browsers must follow for web compatibility which are either not required by or directly contradictory to the URI RFCs. Documenting these and fixing the relevant RFCs would be a valuable

Re: [whatwg] Give guidance about RFC 4281 codecs parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Kevin Marks
On 4/11/07, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had to settle on one type that was valid for all files, to deal with the (common) case where the server was not willing to do introspection to find the correct type. We decided that audio/ promises that there isn't video, whereas video/

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren schrieb: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:43:55 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maciej Stachowiak schrieb: ... Besides the backslash thing, there are a number of URI processing rules that browsers must follow for web compatibility which are either not required by or

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-12 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:24:54 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that at least this thread does not point out bugs in RFC3986 or RFC3987, but problems in user agents that do not follow these specs. Or stated otherwise: in reality, URIs in HTML documents are not

Re: [whatwg] Give guidance about RFC 4281 codecs parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On 4/12/07, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:12 +1000 11/04/07, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: On 4/11/07, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be simpler to use video/ogg and audio/ogg as the base types here? That would already tell you the intended disposition. Please

Re: [whatwg] Web Archives

2007-04-12 Thread Tyler Keating
On 11-Apr-07, at 9:35 PM, Michael A. Puls II wrote: On 4/11/07, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael A. Puls II wrote: It's a really good way to archive, but IE won't handle it and most plug-ins don't accept data URIs, so there are problems with that use-case. (unless browsers can

Re: [whatwg] Web Archives

2007-04-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Michael A. Puls II schrieb: ... If every browser supports .mht, I still don't think it's the best format for archiving. ... What exactly is the problem with .mht (RFC2557)? Are they fixable? How about trying to gather a group of people interested in fixing it? Best regards, Julian

Re: [whatwg] Web Archives

2007-04-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 12, 2007, at 18:33, Julian Reschke wrote: What exactly is the problem with .mht (RFC2557)? Are they fixable? Compared to a zip-based solution, .mht expands data (base64) and the parts of .mht cannot be extracted with ubiquitous zip utilities. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] Web Archives

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, Do any of the existing web archive formats out there store the ETag or Last-Modified of the resources it is archiving? See ya On 4/11/07, Tyler Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I apologize if I've missed this in the specification or mailing archives, but I have a suggestion

Re: [whatwg] Give guidance about RFC 4281 codecs parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:45:34PM -0700, Dave Singer wrote: But [video/*] does at least indicate that we have a time-based multimedia container on our hands, and that it might contain visual presentation. application/ suffers that it does not say even that, and it raises the concern that

Re: [whatwg] Give guidance about RFC 4281 codecs parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, This reminds me of when Lucas Gonze was arguing that MIME types (and Content Types) were dead. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/48276 See ya On 4/12/07, Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/11/07, Dave Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had to settle

[whatwg] Negative tabindex

2007-04-12 Thread Martijn
According to: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#negative-tabindex A negative integer specifies that the element should be removed from the tab order. If the element does normally take focus, it may still be focused using other means (e.g. it could be focused by a click). That

[whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread Nicholas Shanks
I have a website which discusses typography, web design, and computer fonts. It recently occurred to me that my use of spans with style elements was not really the most semantic method of getting across my meaning, and I would be better using the font element. My content goes something

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread Brady J. Frey
That's an interesting one - but the idea of semantics for html is to use an element of meaning, which the font tag lacks in every case as it's a visual not a content representation? This is the same failure as using a span tag for your example, since span has no meaning. The sad part here is

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread David Walbert
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote: My content goes something like this: span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of Helvetica/ spanbr span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its being displayed in

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread gary turner
David Walbert wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote: My content goes something like this: span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of Helvetica/spanbr span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Mason
David Walbert wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote: My content goes something like this: span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of Helvetica/spanbr span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Singer
At 18:12 -0700 12/04/07, Bill Mason wrote: Using an image would also avoid the issues that would come up if you were demonstrating a font via markup that a user doesn't happen to have installed. The browser could wind up defaulting to a completely different font than what you were attempting