[whatwg] The li element's feedback

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Christoph P�per wrote: Simon Pieters: It was pointed out to me that the start='' attribute (and the corresponding DOM attribute) currently defaults to 1. This could, AFAICT, reaonably trivially be changed to make it depend on the direction of the list and the number

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

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: At http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2007/04/html_5.html PPK suggests having an attribute for storing private data for scripts. Currently, one can invent an attribute and it will work for scripts. However, it will look ugly for conformance

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Dave Hodder wrote: Please consider adding the 'l' element (as found in XHTML 2). The 'l' element can be used to break up text into separate lines, in a similar manner to the existing 'br' element. Unlike 'br', it is a container element; instead of pLine 1brLine 2/p,

Re: [whatwg] A suggestion, if postMessage becomes async

2008-04-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:38:05 +0200, Jeff Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make the targetOrigin argument non-optional. * would mean don't care while anything else would specify an origin (or result in a syntax error). If this is done, it's no longer possible to have

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] 2.9.16. The samp element

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Christoph P�per wrote: 2007-12-11 05:56 Ian Hickson: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christoph Paeper wrote: Would the following be inadequate usage according to this specification? a href=foo.imgsampimg src=foo.t.img alt=...//samp/a Yes. The former would be

Re: [whatwg] A suggestion, if postMessage becomes async

2008-04-23 Thread Jeff Walden
Anne van Kesteren wrote: How is omitting the argument any less explicit than providing a * as argument? I would prefer we keep that part of the API as is. It's far easier to forget to provide the origin than it is to accidentally provide *. If you omit an origin with this API, one way or

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-23 Thread Jon Gibbins (dotjay)
Ian Hickson wrote: 3) Documents that use the same acronym to mean different things in different contexts/sections. For example, take that both abbr title=United States of AmericaUSA/abbr and abbr title=United Space AllianceUSA/abbr previously occurred in the document, and you *don't* want,

Re: [whatwg] Are unfocusable elements focusable with tabIndex=-1.

2008-04-23 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:35:39 +0800, Aaron Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how do I know if this has been registered as a pending issue that will be fixed in the spec? As long as the spec remains the same as the W3C HTML 5 spec you can also ask someone to raise an issue in that

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christoph P�per wrote: brfirst line/br Actually it's worse, /br is actually handled as br in browsers, so you'd end up with blank lines if we did this. Yeah, someone already told me by now. On the other hand, there are probably worse compatibility

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: Ian Hickson: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christoph P�per wrote: brfirst line/br Actually it's worse, /br is actually handled as br in browsers, so you'd end up with blank lines if we did this. Yeah, someone already told me by now. On the

Re: [whatwg] Are unfocusable elements focusable with tabIndex=-1.

2008-04-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:35:39 +0200, Aaron Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked with Opera and they also do tabindex=-1 makes anything focusable. So the spec is out of line with implementations. Note that for http://tc.labs.opera.com/html/global-attributes/tabindex/004.htm

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: there are probably worse compatibility issues with older specs and browsers than extra blank lines. Hopefully not in HTML5. :-) Isn't wrong numbering worse? HTML4 UA HTML5 UA ol reversed

Re: [whatwg] HTML 5: The l (line) element

2008-04-23 Thread Smylers
Christoph Päper writes: Ian Hickson schrieb: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Christoph Päper wrote: there are probably worse compatibility issues with older specs and browsers than extra blank lines. Hopefully not in HTML5. :-) Isn't wrong numbering worse? HTML4

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-23 Thread Nicholas Shanks
2008/4/23 Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Summary: I've made the title= attribute on abbr optional again. Maybe we need a smart validator that maintains a set of abbreviations it comes across, if an abbr with no title attribute is encountered that isn't in the set of already seen abbreviations,

Re: [whatwg] Feeedback on dfn, abbr, and other elements related to cross-references

2008-04-23 Thread Jon Gibbins (dotjay)
Nicholas Shanks wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Assistive technology is certainly a valid use case here. Why? It doesn't seem to be the case to me that people using ATs are any less able to work out what an abbreviation is than anyone else. I think the point is that

[whatwg] Expanding datetime

2008-04-23 Thread Ernest Cline
The range of valid datetime strings is a subset of those specified by ISO 8601. Most of the unused formats have been rejected on the grounds of simplicity of parsing, but a format (I think added in ISO 8601:2004, but it may have been earlier) offers a gain in utility that would not be unduly