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June 2008
Comet Daily » Blog Archive » The Future of Comet: Part 2, HTML 5’s Server-Sent Events
Comet doesn’t have to be a hack. Currently, as we saw last time, Comet relies on undocumented loopholes and workarounds, each one with some drawbacks. We can make Comet work effectively in every browser, using streaming transports on subdomains of the same second-level domain, or using script tag long polling across domains. But this leaves Comet developers implementing (and more frustratingly, debugging) several transports across several browsers. Traps are numerous and easy to stumble into.
event-source is the future of all Comet things.
May 2008
John Resig - postMessage API Changes
Embed your data- in HTML 5 - SWiK
Simon Willison pointed out the part of the HTML 5 spec that discusses a way to add attributes to HTML elements for your own needs via data-.
HTML5 IRC logs: freenode / #whatwg / 20080507
mwahahaha. I wonder when people will grow up.# [10:43] Hixie: karl of course totally misunderstood what i meant by "doesn't work", as usual
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April 2008
Re: Direct formatting STYLE attribute from Paul Prescod on 1995-12-07 (www-style@w3.org from December 1995)
ahahahahI would _not_ support this position if I thought that most people who used this STYLE attribute would understand it. In HTML 5.0, when everyone understands exactly what the Web is, we can make it easier to get at.
Re: Hey Microsoft! cool it with CSS points ok? from Todd Fahrner on 1997-10-24 (www-style@w3.org from November 1997)
Todd Fahrner, first mention of HTML 5? in 1997.Note that the full range of _relative_ sizes specified by the author is preserved in this scheme, which may simply be necessary to differentiate the 12 levels of heading in, say, HTML 5.
March 2008
www-html from June 1994: Re: meta information
Chris wilson en juin 1994. Cela ressemble a des quotes de maintenant_BUT_, they can be private techniques which won't break current and future WWW clients. Otherwise, each new data element will require not only the discussion/consensus cycle, but also the implementation cycle for each Web browser or server out there.
HTML evolution
HTML Evolution Considered Harmful - And a Path Out Version: 1.0 Brian Behlendorf, [log in to unmask] 1 October 1995
Comment etendre en HTML
The HTML WG has several times expressed a strong preference that HTML be officially extended only by standards-track "versions", not by registered extensions. This is the reason why proposed individual feature extensions are being handled with experimental RFCs, rather than as standards-track ones. The responsible Applications Area Director would prefer that IANA start a registry of this type only in coordination with that WG, lest the registration mechanism become an alternative to normal IETF processing.
No consensus on the versioning problem
fabuleux. tous les sujets discutes dans la liste html-wg l'etait deja il y a 13 ans.No consensus on the versioning problem
Acid3 test - Comment jouer avec la verité.
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » The Acid 3 Test
Moi qui croyait que le but d'Acid3 était de vérifier l'implémentation des standards.WebKit had a number of minor parsing bugs that Acid 3 targeted. [...] We have updated our parser to be much closer to the HTML5-specified parsing rules.
Firefox non standards extensions … Drawing text using a canvas - MDC
Oh wait! IE8 n'a pas le droit d'étendre mais Mozilla oui? Deux poids, deux mesures?The <canvas> element supports drawing text on it via experimental Mozilla-specific APIs.
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » The Acid 3 Test
Just to illustrate how far browsers are (were) implementing previous specifications of html.WebKit has also never parsed DOCTYPEs before. I re-wrote WebKit’s DOCTYPE parsing to match the HTML5 specification, and so now if you put a DOCTYPE into your page it will be present in the DOM. In addition many bugs centered around proper mode resolution (quirks vs. strict) have now been fixed. You can document.write a DOCTYPE for example in a new document and have the correct mode be selected.
February 2008
ISCOC04 Talk « Adam Bosworth’s Weblog
As with HTML, there is just enough information to be useful. Like HTML, it can be extended when necessary, but most people do it judiciously.
Code Simplicity » Simplicity and Strictness
Probably the best-known strictness disaster is HTML. […]
Some people argue that HTML is commonly used because it’s not strict. That the non-strictness of its design makes it popular. That if web browsers had always just thrown an error instead of accepting invalid HTML, somehow people would not have used HTML. That is a patently ridiculous argument.
Code Simplicity » When Is Backwards-Compatibility Not Worth It?
But sometimes, maintaining backwards compatibility for any area of your application can lead to a point of diminishing returns. This applies to everything about a program, not just its API.
html5, datagrid, box model et CSS
The biggest obstacle for tasks above in conventional html/css is that box model. It does not support vertical alignment/flex. At all. You cannot say: "I want this table span the whole height of the view/container minus possible margins and borders". Thus we were forced to introduce "flex length units" to be able to support such typical UI tasks.
html 5 parsing versus authoring
Il y a vraiment besoin du guide pour les auteursperson A: P.S. The reason I did not understand the original message is that I do see wbr mentioned in the current draft of the html5, and I don't see where it declares that it is an error.
person B: It's not a parse error, but there's no way to include it in an HTML document without violating the content models.
