[whatwg] outputting audio from java-script

2010-02-09 Thread Toni Ruottu
hello I have been working around a "game music" composing application called Kunquat, which is completely unrelated to web. Discussing various details of the said desktop application has however, awaken me to think about related issues. At times we have discussed implementing similar pieces of m

Re: [whatwg] outputting audio from java-script

2010-02-09 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Toni Ruottu wrote: >  hello > > I have been working around a "game music" composing application called > Kunquat, which is completely unrelated to web. Discussing various > details of the said desktop application has however, awaken me to > think about related issue

[whatwg] script postonload

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Souders
I'd like to propose the addition of a POSTONLOAD attribute to the SCRIPT tag. The behavior would be similar to DEFER, but instead of delaying downloads until after parsing they would be delayed until after the window's load event. Similar to DEFER, this new attribute would ensure scripts were

[whatwg] comments on SCRIPT ASYNC and DEFER

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Souders
I have some comments and questions about the ASYNC and DEFER attributes of the SCRIPT tag based on reading this document: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/scripting-1.html 1. "If nei

[whatwg] feedback

2010-02-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Kit Grose wrote: > > I've been working on my first HTML5 frontend, which is using the video > element, and I've run into a part of the spec that I disagree with (and > would like to understand its justification): > > > Content may be provided inside the video element. User

Re: [whatwg] comments on SCRIPT ASYNC and DEFER

2010-02-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/8/10 4:54 PM, Steve Souders wrote: 4. "If the element has a src attribute, [snip] the specified resource must then be fetched, from the origin of the element's Document." If the script has DEFER, the request should not start until after parsing is finished. Starting it earlier could block ot

Re: [whatwg] script postonload

2010-02-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/8/10 5:06 PM, Steve Souders wrote: The behavior would be similar to DEFER, but instead of delaying downloads until after parsing they would be delayed until after the window's load event. Is this meant to be used for scripts one has no control over? If not, then just making all the inter

[whatwg] <% text %> and in corporate intranet html content

2010-02-09 Thread Biju
What should a user agent display when html content is... <%@ page language="java" %> At present IE and Safari display blank Firefox display <%@ page language="java" %> And for document.body.innerHTML browsers give Firefox --> <%@ page language="java" %> IE --><%@ page language="java" %> and S

Re: [whatwg] <% text %> and in corporate intranet html content

2010-02-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Biju wrote: > What should a user agent display when html content is... > > > <%@ page language="java" %> > > > At present IE and Safari display blank > > Firefox display <%@ page language="java" %> > > And for document.body.innerHTML browsers give > Firefox --> <%

Re: [whatwg] <% text %> and in corporate intranet html content

2010-02-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/9/10 11:56 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Biju wrote: What should a user agent display when html content is... <%@ page language="java" %> At present IE and Safari display blank Firefox display<%@ page language="java" %> As does Opera, and Firefox with the

Re: [whatwg] <% text %> and in corporate intranet html content

2010-02-09 Thread Biju
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > All of these cases appear to be an ASP or PHP page that is > accidentally being sent as ordinary html. You shouldn't be seeing > these tags at all in the source of the page unless a server is > misconfigured. At least in one page I saw, w

Re: [whatwg] <% text %> and in corporate intranet html content

2010-02-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/10/10 1:15 AM, Biju wrote: Personally I prefer the IE way as I think one may able to make a simple PHP or JSP editor just using contentEditable feature. Well, for a start the "IE way" would need to be defined. I haven't quite seen anyone do that yet. -Boris

Re: [whatwg] Making cross-domain overlays more user-friendly

2010-02-09 Thread Martin Atkins
Rowan Nairn wrote: Hi, In the spirit of paving some cow paths I'd like to put forward a proposal for a future version of HTML. The behavior I'm addressing is sites that replace links to external content with a framed version of that content, along with their own overlay of information and links

[whatwg] Video source selection based on quality (was: feedback)

2010-02-09 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: [..] > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Hugh Guiney wrote: >> >> So, in my first foray into preparing Theora/Vorbis content, for use with >> , I realized that I wasn't sure with what settings to encode my >> materials. Should I: >> >> A.) Supply my visitors

Re: [whatwg] URN or protocol attribute

2010-02-09 Thread Martin Atkins
Brett Zamir wrote: Hi, Internet Explorer has an attribute on anchor elements for URNs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534710%28VS.85%29.aspx This has not caught on in other browsers, though I believe it could be a very powerful feature once the feature was supported with a UI tha