Re: [whatwg] HTML vs Plain Text in Notifications

2008-09-11 Thread Julian Reschke
Dmitry Titov wrote: ... The text-based box has following problems: - Not enough formatting capabilities even for simple cases (calendar appointment and mail notification). - No mechanism to update content (as in upload progress indicator scenario) - No way to add interactive features (snooze

Re: [whatwg] Generic Metadata Mechanisms (RDFa feedback summarywikipage)

2008-09-11 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The way Julian formulated it, it is hearsay, not evidence, with no statistical background. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:26 PM To: Ian Hickson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Manu Sporny

Re: [whatwg] Scripted video query proposal

2008-09-11 Thread Maik Merten
Perhaps another possibility would be something similar to the current navigagor.mimeTypes array (navigator.mediaMimeTypes?). Absolutely old-school, but perhaps makes sense, as the ability to display certain media types is mostly a property of the navigator/client, not as much a property of the

[whatwg] List of differences between whatwg and w3c spec?

2008-09-11 Thread Aaron Swartz
I notice there are specs for HTML5 dated today at: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ diff -u shows a lot of difference, but most are cosmetic. (I gather they're there because Hixie disagrees with some W3C pubrules but can't get them changed.) Is

Re: [whatwg] List of differences between whatwg and w3c spec?

2008-09-11 Thread Edward O'Connor
diff -u shows a lot of difference, but most are cosmetic. (I gather they're there because Hixie disagrees with some W3C pubrules but can't get them changed.) Is there any page that lists the substantive differences? Presumably the generation of the drafts is automated; is the source file for

Re: [whatwg] List of differences between whatwg and w3c spec?

2008-09-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Aaron Swartz wrote: I notice there are specs for HTML5 dated today at: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ diff -u shows a lot of difference, but most are cosmetic. (I gather they're there because Hixie disagrees with

[whatwg] Repetition templates missing

2008-09-11 Thread Aaron Swartz
In the 11 September 2008 edition, section 1.6 of the HTML5 WD (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#structure) links to Repetition Templates at #repetition but there is no element with that ID. In a recent interview

Re: [whatwg] Repetition templates missing

2008-09-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Aaron Swartz wrote: In a recent interview (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=718) Ian Hickson says For example, the repetition templates proposal is almost certainly going to be dropped. Can you please say why? It solves about 5% of