Re: [whatwg] [wf2] Leap seconds, dates in the past

2006-08-16 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
to be a preferable option for people like history teachers with basic web skills, or the support guy or smart kid at school who helps them out. -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9

Re: [whatwg] Dynamic content accessibility in HTML today

2006-08-22 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
be perfect but it gives people a relatively reliable way to add something that won't impact on the rest of what they do (when alt got overloaded for tooltip this became a problem). There are also ways to add it post-hoc, e.g. by browserJS or something similar. cheers Chaals -- Charles

Re: [whatwg] input type=country?

2006-08-24 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
-in. Actually, it should be possible as a user javascript, for anyone who can write javascript right. find select where option=$Locale remove selected from option selected in that select. Set option=$locale selected. or something like that. Hi Sander, BTW. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile

Re: [whatwg] Dynamic content accessibility in HTML today

2006-08-24 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, which don't make it non-conforming. Given that people are pretty inventive, I think that is quite valuable. YMMV And it can appear on any element, although there is not much point adding it to things that use well-defined semantics already. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera

Re: [whatwg] Dynamic content accessibility in HTML today

2006-08-24 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:16:14 +0200, James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles McCathieNevile wrote: About right except there is a mechanism in the W3C work for adding new values, which don't make it non-conforming. Given that people are pretty inventive, I think that is quite valuable

Re: [whatwg] return lowercase hex values for fillStyle and strokeStyle

2006-09-05 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:07:35 +0200, Nicholas Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Sep 2006, at 12:54, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Instead of returning an uppercase six digit hex value I suggest returning a lowercase value for compatibility with what UAs (including IE) currently do

Re: [whatwg] Modal Dialog Box support

2006-09-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
the time. Cheers -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9 now! http://opera.com

[whatwg] Books and rhetoric Re: Modal Dialog Box support

2006-09-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:46:52 +0200, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles McCathieNevile wrote: So, what, we're supposed to order and read a book from Amazon.com in order to know what you're talking about? You could always go to a library. I believe the reference was offered

Re: [whatwg] Tim BL's HTML WG announcement and WHAT WG

2006-10-29 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:04:46 +1000, J. King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:16:44 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was at least one major issue in WF2 that came out from actually *implementing*. What was the problem? Default values

Re: [whatwg] Tim BL's HTML WG announcement and WHAT WG

2006-10-30 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:56:19 +1000, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 29, 2006, at 19:16, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: So what comes out will probably be a (perhaps evolved) version of WHATWG stuff, as has been the case in some other W3C groups already. That would be excellent

Re: [whatwg] Graceful Degradation and Mime Types[was: trailing slash]

2006-12-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
interest in it from people who are building businesses beyond the small web-design shop. To say it is foundering seems to me like suggesting that jet aircraft are foundering because most people use propellor planes, or cars. cheers -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards

[whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Hi guys, why does finding a number in text [1] insist on . as a decimal seperator, when , is also very commonly used? [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#steps cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-12 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
world languages? Everything should be as simple as possible *and no simpler* - this is too simple. Maybe assuming you can parse numbers out of text is just a dumb idea as a normative part of a spec. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-13 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:17:14 +0530, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 13, 2006, at 08:32, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: How can this be dealt with without making the parsing dependent on lang and requiring the UAs to implement all-encompassing CLDR-aware number parsing

Re: [whatwg] finding a number...

2006-12-13 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:43:10 +0530, Mikko Rantalainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles McCathieNevile wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:17:14 +0530, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 13, 2006, at 08:32, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: possible *and no simpler* - this is too simple

Re: [whatwg] [WebApps] canvas transform()/setTransform()

2006-12-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
be m11 m21 dx m12 m22 dy ... (b) 0 0 1 In particular, this would make for easy compatibility with SVG transformations, helping authors to copy them from one to hte other format and back. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle

Re: [whatwg] blockquote cite and q cite

2007-01-05 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
are actually going to read what you wrote. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] [WebApps] canvas transform()/setTransform()

2007-01-17 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-05 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
come to terms with a new element being introduced because `span` with a class is too long in comparison to `m`. -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
that in the context of this page as delivered, the word is emphasised for some reason (which you have to guess from context unless you are going with RDFa or some microformat or something). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-07 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
itself. Isn't this what strong is for? I.E. signifying the contained text is somehow more important than the surrounding text but not changing the meaning. Strong provides a strong emphasis, no? - where you really want to highlight something a lot... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-07 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:01:52 +0530, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Charles McCathieNevile wrote: In what way, apart from denoting that something is particularly relevant within a phrase in a given context, does emphasis change the meaning of something? The spec gives a good example

Re: [whatwg] De-emphasis

2007-02-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
-- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:13:20 +0530, Martin Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The *meaning* is that the content is highlighted. Or, as the first few definitions I looked at all said, emphasised. -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français

Re: [whatwg] The m element [em and strong]

2007-02-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
-- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 -- HTML

2007-02-09 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
currently only for the label element. A simple alternative would be to make the content model for lists be (hX)?(li)*, no? cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
(if that is the example), or just an optional variant of em (in the same way that strong is often used now). Cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

[whatwg] Authoring Re: several messages about HTML5

2007-02-21 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
documents. And then it becomes interesting...) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] several messages about HTML5

2007-02-22 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
I expect it to be an unquestioned success within my lifetime. Like peace in the Middle East, it's still a worthwhile goal we should actively strive for, IMHO. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk

[whatwg] OT history Re: Authoring

2007-02-22 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:07:29 +0100, Ron van den Boogaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:47:50 +0100, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: As people got printers and desktop publishing a few people made the crazy multi-font unreadable pages that were all the rage in the mid-80s

Re: [whatwg] Spec should give guidance on compound document integration points

2007-02-25 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
of learning about RDF. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Geolocation in the browser

2007-02-25 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
of Google - most of the time you get the right language, but every so often it's just totally b0rken. So while it is a useful guess, you would want to know what the browser is going to submit. And often it is around the country level of accuracy. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera

[whatwg] Last Call - XMLHttpRequest

2007-02-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera

Re: [whatwg] audio vs. video

2007-03-05 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
for each kind of media (how many kinds? What is a flash video that has interactive bits? Or an SVG that is mostly video with a few interaction choices? Or interactive SVG with some audio?), or fix object... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 and the W3C Patent Policy

2007-03-14 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
-- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

[whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients (and maybe other WYSIWYG editors)

2007-04-18 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
as a development community. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients (and maybe other WYSIWYG editors)

2007-04-19 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
can think of plenty of reasons for not doing so. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients

2007-04-21 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
with a variety of tools in mind including CMS and email. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients (and maybe other WYSIWYG editors)

2007-04-21 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:08:33 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I do think that for blogs or wikis where you are publishing to the web audience at large, the editing tools should make

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients

2007-04-22 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
understand something of the science and some of the people who are planning how the web should develop). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients

2007-04-22 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
-- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] video title or alt attribute

2007-04-26 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Actually the proposed model allows for the use of real content, not just an attribute. This is generally regarded as a better approach for accessibility since it provides much more flexibility (and as it happens provides for better backwards compatibility as well. So instead of video src=foo

Re: [whatwg] Allowed characters in attribute names (was: Re: Stepsfor finding one or two numbers in a string)

2007-06-13 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
language, most people still don't speak a latin language. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Allowed characters in attribute names (was: Re: Stepsfor finding one or two numbers in a string)

2007-06-17 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
to learn it anyway. But we still have some time left, so let's just use the opportunities. The day is full of troubles even without your fantasizing. Thanks for your polite and constructive reply. Cheers, Chris -Original Message- From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByAttr

2007-07-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
]) that returns whatever matches that selector the current editor's draft can be found at http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/selectors-api/Overview.html cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer

Re: [whatwg] getElementsByAttr

2007-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, but decided on having the single element method as an optimisation that does something reasonably useful (in our opinion) for both the implementors of user agents and the authors of code. It is listed as issue 110 in the WebAPI group issue tracker. Cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile

[whatwg] Nitpicking Re: Editorial Bug: Couple of Appendicies

2007-07-13 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
really are saying two, but lying. In this case, Smylers is correct that using couple is wrong, assuming that using reasonably good english is a goal. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL

Re: [whatwg] BC AD BCE CE trivia

2007-08-29 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
and the year of his reign, in all kinds of common documents. Islam also has a calendar that is different and is important to practising muslims (even those whose practise is pretty loose), and Judaism has its own calendar (about which I know relatively little). cheers Chaals -- Charles

[whatwg] Fwd: Re: Progress Events done event

2007-09-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
(abort, hideProgressBar, false); } == This is somewhat verbose. Clearly, the author is forced to repeat himself when all he really wants to do is hide the progress bar after the call is done. -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards

Re: [whatwg] Video, Closed Captions, and Audio Description Tracks

2007-10-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
be supported. How should closed captions and audio description tracks for accessibility be supported using video and these formats? cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals

Re: [whatwg] Removal of Ogg is *preposterous*

2007-12-11 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
is clearly not required. So any such concern about the wording that was in the spec is more FUD than fact. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http

Re: [whatwg] How to use SVG in HTML5?

2008-01-23 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
object data-foo.svg/object (again bad HTML, it should generally have some kind of fallback content - and a size). Unfortunately, of course, IE is still holding you back from doing it on the open web that simply :( cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group

Re: [whatwg] How to use SVG in HTML5?

2008-01-23 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
something like inkscape, but still easy to create and easy to automagically optimise to something lightweight). Which is why I disagree thoroughly with Chris' assertion here. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg

Re: [whatwg] accesskey

2008-01-27 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Opera SVG Re: How to use SVG in HTML5?

2008-01-27 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, -Vlad http://xhtml.com Original Message From: Charles McCathieNevile Date: 2008-01-24 10:47 PM Hi Vlad, On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:50:45 +1100, Vlad Alexander (xhtml.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I tested Opera's support for SVG through the img element and it incorrectly clips

Re: [whatwg] accesskey

2008-01-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
the situation. This is, after all, primarily a question of user interface design, not markup design. cheers chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http

Re: [whatwg] accesskey

2008-02-18 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
haven't developed yet...). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] several messages about figure and related subjects

2008-02-26 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
than a decade. Given the lengths that HTML5 goes to so that it can degrade gracefully, this sounds like a high price to pay to avoid adding an element. cheers chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http

Re: [whatwg] Usemap and ismap for canvas tag

2008-03-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
it) - the fact that it is relatively lightweight, ergo faster. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] ARIA

2008-03-07 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, for not mentioning Opera ;) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question

2008-03-17 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, but that's not a great solution either. In my ideal world, people would actually implement the aural style, but I think we are the biggest implementation of that and we only do it on windows for the voice plugin :( cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question

2008-03-17 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:07:52 -, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/03/2008, Charles McCathieNevile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad assumption - they don't read it out. They read what is put on the screen. (Well, sort of - what they actually do is parse the DOM themselves quite

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Accessibility question

2008-03-17 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
one - at least I have a handful of windows screen readers). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com

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

2008-04-23 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
in that group. There is an instance of W3C's tracker following various issues on the mailing list (where you can see if it picked up a relevant thread - and link it if it didn't happen). http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/ cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je

Re: [whatwg] Expanding datetime

2008-04-24 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
this would introduce any particular complications (beyond a few more test cases). I am inclined to think that the use cases justify the cost, at least enough to investigate further. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2008-06-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
the ID of an element in the page. Sounds like a semantic web project to me, infobot. (Personally I think that would be useful, but at that point I'd switch to basing my work on XML anyway, where there are infrastructures for this kind of thing). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile

Re: [whatwg] access to local path in input type=file

2008-06-05 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/fileio/fileIO.htm cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com

[whatwg] language quibbles: either works Re: same-origin versus same origin

2008-07-05 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
things - but one counterbalanced by the fact that many of the people who want to understand the descriptions have some level of familiarity with it. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http

Re: [whatwg] Making it possible to do an anchor link to any DOM node

2008-07-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
proposing is to reinvent XPointer. As originally done most of a decade ago. There may still be traces available via http://jibbering.com/discussion/fuzzy-pointers.html cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer

Re: [whatwg] Application deployment

2008-07-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
one common approach. An alternative, which is used to get a bit more functionality by people who were thinking the same as you and building platforms to do it, is the widget packaging spec - http://www.w3.org/tr/widgets (but it isn't developed by WHAT-WG). cheers Chaals -- Charles

Re: [whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

2008-09-27 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
webpage is in memory. Except if it is being used for an advertising display, or the like, and happens to be around for a long time. Why not define a way to say forever that means it (and doesn't require us to count the loops in our implementation)? cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile

Re: [whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

2008-11-07 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
actually not sure that we mean the same thing when we say nearest but I will talk to you off the list about that to clarify that in my mind :-) Ok. rel=help is now defined to apply to the link element's parent and its children. Thanks, this seems sound to me. cheers Chaals -- Charles

Re: [whatwg] accesskey attribute with display:none elements

2008-12-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
' it - especially in a way that breaks stuff) is the one that carries the most weight. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] attribute media on script element

2008-12-28 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
makers are not really interested in), and I agree with David's concern that it can have some pretty costly implications. Can you explain why XBL2 is part of the solution here? It seems you have something in mind that I don't understand yet. thanks Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2008-12-31 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
believe that this discussion is going to last for some time (I cannot imagine why, given the HTML timeline, it would need to be resolved before June), so there will be time for others to discuss more fully the many points Ian raises as ones he would like to understand. cheers Chaals -- Charles

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-01 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
. If they have a use-case, and I think it is widely accepted that they do, then it would seem obvious that being able to identify the source of each part, and any conditions that vary between different sources, is a use case. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:52:35 +1100, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:43:05 +1100, Andi Sidwell a...@takkaria.org wrote: On 2009-01-01 15:24, Toby A Inkster wrote: The use

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:51:53 +1100, Calogero Alex Baldacchino alex.baldacch...@email.it wrote: Charles McCathieNevile ha scritto: ... it shouldn't be too difficoult to create a custom parser, comforming to RDFa spec and availing of data-* attributes... That is, since RDFa can be emulated

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-04 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:37:08 +1100, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: No, I don't think so. Google searches based on analysis of the open web are *not* generally more reliable than faceted searches over

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-04 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
with no problem, but may not be allowed to index others. Meanwhile, a human finds it more useful to see the abstracts on a page than have to guess from a bunch of titles whether to look at each abstract. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-07 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, to me. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

[whatwg] What RDF does Re: Trying to work out...

2009-01-11 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
that you know the data model without knowing the vocabulary a priori - since this is sufficient to automate the process of merging data into your model. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http

Re: [whatwg] Trying to work out the problems solved by RDFa

2009-01-11 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
(a form of RDF carefully designed to fit into HTML). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Synchronized play/seek of multiple audio elements?

2009-02-26 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-09 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
the names of consuls for a few centuries), and can easily date lots of events (but not the birth of Jesus, which probably took place around 4-6 BC :) ). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-09 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
RDFa, since using RDF it is already simple to deal with these use cases, and the people who have them very often ahve their data in an RDF-compatible form already. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:03:37 +0100, David Singer sin...@apple.com wrote: At 3:22 +0100 10/03/09, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: That format has some serious limitations for heavy metadata users. In particular for those who are producing information about historical objects, from British

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-12 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] Please review use cases relating to embedding micro-data in text/html

2009-04-25 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
, BibTex) in a consistent manner, so that tools that use this information separate from the pages on which it is found have a standard way of conveying the information. cheers -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer

Re: [whatwg] Please review use cases relating to embedding micro-data in text/html

2009-04-25 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:46:09 +0200, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: * Shouldn't require the consumer to write XSLT or server-side code to process the annotated data. Does process here mean extract from the page, or something more? cheers -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera

Re: [whatwg] Please review use cases relating to embedding micro-data in text/html

2009-04-25 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
you have selected? What's the process here? cheers chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

[whatwg] alt text...

2009-04-26 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
.org/TR/ATAG10/#check-no-default-alt [9] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ATAG20-20080310/#gl-manage-alts cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] converting word (was code attributes

2009-05-01 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
is not rocket science, either. It is the sort of thing that was routine more than a decade ago when people started to use HTML as well as, or instead of, Word and similar formats. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español

Re: [whatwg] Clickjacking and CSRF

2009-07-16 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
. If you're curious, Sigbjørn is our lead for this effort. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] HTML5: has input device: use motion detection been included?

2009-08-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
benefits, and the opportunity to appear and play in game spaces. This is among the things that the Device API group is expected to cover with new APIs for such capabilities. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg

Re: [whatwg] HTML5: has input device: use motion detection been included?

2009-08-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
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Re: [whatwg] Test results for xmlns:foo attribute preservation across all browsers

2009-08-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
websites with browser sniffing check version numbers, but only the first digit. I.e. they can't count to ten yet). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http

Re: [whatwg] Test results for xmlns:foo attribute preservation across all browsers

2009-08-11 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:37:15 -0400, Bil Corry b...@corry.biz wrote: Charles McCathieNevile wrote on 8/6/2009 2:24 PM: On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:12:07 -0400, Manu Sporny mspo...@digitalbazaar.com wrote: The test ensures that attributes originating in the markup of an HTML4 document are preserved

Re: [whatwg] Alt attribute for video and audio

2009-08-11 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
-- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

Re: [whatwg] SVG: Accessible Forms

2009-09-03 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
action on anything :( cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

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