Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-08-20 Thread Mark Callow
On 2014/06/26 12:58, Marcos Caceres wrote: I would be in favor of this. It would be good to support the legacy content as its use on the Web is significant. Search I did back in Oct 2013 found these proprietary tags appeared on something like 1% of pages in Alexa's top 78K pages 1%!

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-08-20 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Mark Callow callow.m...@artspark.co.jp wrote: On 2014/06/26 12:58, Marcos Caceres wrote: I would be in favor of this. It would be good to support the legacy content as its use on the Web is significant. Search I did back in Oct 2013 found these proprietary

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-08-19 Thread fantasai
On 06/26/2014 12:50 PM, Tobie Langel wrote: On Jun 26, 2014, at 21:20, Marcos Caceres w...@marcosc.com wrote: On June 26, 2014 at 1:58:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. (jackalm...@gmail.com) wrote: Here's a first crack at a better spec: Moved your text here: https://github.com/whatwg/meta-brand-color

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-08-19 Thread Adam Barth
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:52 PM, fantasai fantasai.li...@inkedblade.net wrote: On 06/26/2014 12:50 PM, Tobie Langel wrote: On Jun 26, 2014, at 21:20, Marcos Caceres w...@marcosc.com wrote: On June 26, 2014 at 1:58:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. (jackalm...@gmail.com) wrote: Here's a first crack at a

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-30 Thread Tao Bai
Shall we enforce brand-color in head elements? it could make the brand-color loaded ASAP, just like the favicon. - Michael On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Kit Grose k...@studioiq.com.au wrote: It feels utterly bizarre to me that this sort of property is declared in the markup and not in the

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tao Bai michael...@google.com wrote: Shall we enforce brand-color in head elements? it could make the brand-color loaded ASAP, just like the favicon. Not needed, imo. If you put it in the head (or at least, early in the body), it'll get read early; if you put

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Tao Bai wrote: Hi, I have added brand-color meta extension in http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions, and would like have your comment on it. Please check the detail on linked spec. The cited spec mentions mapplication-navbutton-color and

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Tao Bai
The brand color is super set of them and not limited to use in the navbutton or status bar, furthermore, not all browsers have navbutton or status concept, it makes developer confused. The mapplication-navbutton-color and apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style are prefix and browser specific,

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Marcos Caceres w...@marcosc.com wrote: Folks at Mozilla and Google would like to standardize the `brand-color` meta extension. The `brand-color` keyword has been added to the MetaExtensions WHATWG wiki and a rough spec is below (prepared by some folks at

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: This feature has been developed in the past under multiple proprietary names, such as mapplication-navbutton-color for Internet Explorer and apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style for Mobile Safari. Authors MUST NOT

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Tao Bai wrote: The brand color is super set of them and not limited to use in the navbutton or status bar, furthermore, not all browsers have navbutton or status concept, it makes developer confused. I don't think it confuses authors any more, and possibly a lot less,

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: This feature has been developed in the past under multiple proprietary names, such as mapplication-navbutton-color for Internet Explorer and

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Adam Barth
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Tao Bai wrote: The brand color is super set of them and not limited to use in the navbutton or status bar, furthermore, not all browsers have navbutton or status concept, it makes developer confused. I

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Domenic Denicola
I would like to reiterate that brand- is not a good prefix for this purpose. It has nothing to do with brands, and much more to do with the app or with system integration.

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Marcos Caceres
On June 26, 2014 at 1:58:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. (jackalm...@gmail.com) wrote: Here's a first crack at a better spec: Moved your text here:  https://github.com/whatwg/meta-brand-color We can better capture issues, etc. there. I also updated the Wiki to point there as the official version. We

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Tobie Langel
On Jun 26, 2014, at 21:20, Marcos Caceres w...@marcosc.com wrote: On June 26, 2014 at 1:58:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. (jackalm...@gmail.com) wrote: Here's a first crack at a better spec: Moved your text here: https://github.com/whatwg/meta-brand-color Could we change the name to something a tad

Re: [whatwg] `brand-color` meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Marcos Caceres
On June 26, 2014 at 2:17:22 PM, Ian Hickson (i...@hixie.ch) wrote: I think it would make sense to allow vendors to treat these all as independent values (in particular, we wouldn't want IE to be forced to extend their interpretation of msapplication-TileColor and

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Mathias Bynens
On 26 Jun 2014, at 20:45, Domenic Denicola dome...@domenicdenicola.com wrote: I would like to reiterate that brand- is not a good prefix for this purpose. It has nothing to do with brands, and much more to do with the app or with system integration. Major +1 here, seeing as this feedback

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Mathias Bynens mathi...@opera.com wrote: Interesting to see this would be only the second HTML attribute value to get parsed as a simple color (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#simple-color) rather than a

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Mathias Bynens mathi...@opera.com wrote: On 26 Jun 2014, at 22:24, Mathias Bynens mathi...@opera.com wrote: Interesting to see this would be only the second HTML attribute value to get parsed as a simple color

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: The spec does not suggest that it would be a simple color; it says to allow any CSS color. simple color in HTML is solely a 6-digit hex color. In that case you want the same code path canvas uses. As well as setting

Re: [whatwg] brand-color meta extension

2014-06-26 Thread Mathias Bynens
On 26 Jun 2014, at 22:37, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Mathias Bynens mathi...@opera.com wrote: On 26 Jun 2014, at 22:24, Mathias Bynens mathi...@opera.com wrote: Interesting to see this would be only the second HTML attribute value to get