02:15
<Hixie>
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14
02:15
<Hixie>
it's so sad seeing the w3c validator team try to make itself irrelevant
02:15
<Hixie>
long live hsivonen
02:19
<kfish>
http://validator.annodex.org/
02:19
<kfish>
^^^ for checking Ogg Theora videos in HTML5 ;-)
02:25
<Philip`>
http://validator.annodex.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.opera.com%2Fhowcome%2F2007%2Fvideo%2FA_New_Computer--small.ogg :-(
02:29
<kfish>
Philip`, yeah, a common encoding problem ;-)
02:29
<kfish>
perhaps that should be a warning ...
02:29
<kfish>
gah, gotta go ... l8r
02:30
<Philip`>
Is there any chance of having a link to an explanation of what the messages mean? :-)
02:31
<Philip`>
(and maybe suggestions of how to fix them)
02:31
<Philip`>
because I haven't got a clue what a granulepos is :-p
02:35
<mpt>
Granuleposes are delicious delicacies.
03:36
<aroben_>
does anyone know why HTMLTableElement doesn't have a createTBody method?
03:37
<Hixie>
in DOM2 HTML, or in HTML5?
03:37
<aroben_>
Hixie: either
03:37
<Hixie>
html5 is just whatever dom2 did
03:37
<Hixie>
dom2... dunno
03:37
<Hixie>
we could add one if people actually use these apis
03:38
<aroben_>
Hixie: it's an inconvenient omission
03:38
<Hixie>
feel free to send a suggestion to whatwg
03:38
<aroben_>
Hixie: will do
03:38
<Hixie>
cool
03:38
<aroben_>
Hixie: thanks
03:38
<Hixie>
np
03:44
<othermaciej>
aroben_: do other browsers have that?
03:44
<othermaciej>
I think the table methods to create specific table part elements are a little silly
03:44
<aroben_>
othermaciej: i don't know
03:44
<othermaciej>
it seems weird for table parts to have a convenience way to make them but not most other elements in HTML, beyond createElement
03:45
<aroben_>
othermaciej: if we're going to have convenience methods at all they might as well be convenient
03:45
<othermaciej>
well, the really convenient way to dynamically munge up markup is innerHTML
03:46
<othermaciej>
aroben_: furthermore, the tbody element is optional so the need to ever make one dynamically is low
09:27
<hsivonen>
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator-about/#src
09:27
<hsivonen>
feedback from Windows XP/Vista users would be appreciated
09:27
<hsivonen>
(works on Mac OS X and Ubuntu)
09:28
<hsivonen>
(doesn't run annevk's tests yet)
10:14
<virtuelv>
hsivonen: Just wondering about one of the terms in your license: "You must not cause the service to access content that is deemed illegal in Finland. "
10:15
<virtuelv>
knowing that might be hard
10:15
<hsivonen>
virtuelv: right. I guess that is useless anyway.
10:16
<virtuelv>
yeah, it's kind of unenforcable
10:16
<hsivonen>
virtuelv: taken out
10:21
<hsivonen>
aaargh. Jetty API changed argument meanings without changing the signatures
10:23
<hsivonen>
no. something even weirder going on with Jetty and AJP
10:31
<hsivonen>
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-239 fun they won't release a new binary for a total AJP blocker
10:46
<krijnh>
Is putting a class attribute on <html> acceptable?
10:46
<krijnh>
Although not allowed by current DTDs
10:49
<hsivonen>
krijnh: ok in HTML5
10:49
<krijnh>
Yeah, I thought so
10:50
<krijnh>
Was it an error in the html4.01 DTD?
10:50
<krijnh>
Or was that the id attribute
10:51
<hsivonen>
krijnh: id at least. can't remember about class
10:51
<krijnh>
Me neither
10:52
<krijnh>
Most of the times I add a js_enabled class to the html element with JS
10:56
<mikeday>
Here is a HTML/CSS rendering question for the assembled multitude
10:56
<mikeday>
why do empty table cells get a default height of one line?
10:57
<mikeday>
eg. <tr><td> </td></tr> will not be zero height
10:57
<hsivonen>
mikeday: there's a CSS line box in there
10:57
<mikeday>
but for <div> </div>, there isn't?
11:02
<mikeday>
hmm, hang on. Looks like I got confused.
11:02
<mikeday>
Bah, each table cell had a secret non-breaking space hidden in it that wasn't showing up in the editor.
11:03
<mikeday>
That's why it was getting a non-zero height.
12:45
<Dashiva>
distributive law, coming soon to your selectors syntax
12:48
<virtuelv>
annevk: yt?
12:49
<annevk>
yeah
12:50
<virtuelv>
pm
15:33
<annevk>
http://nickcowie.com/2007/html5-and-mobile-browsers/
15:38
<MikeSmith>
annevk - quoting that, "One reason being by 2010 more people will be accessing the internet by mobile phone than computer" ... I don't know what data he bases that claim on, but I don't reckon it to be accurate.
16:15
<annevk>
any ubuntu users here?
16:16
annevk
wonders how to switch his laptop into "presentation mode"
16:16
<annevk>
hasather, are you using ubuntu?
16:17
<hendry>
annevk: are you using FullerScreen extension?
16:18
<annevk>
I'm just using Opera
16:18
<annevk>
that's not the problem
16:18
<annevk>
the problem is what to do once I'm connected to a projector
16:19
<hasather>
annevk: yea
16:19
<annevk>
hasather, do you know what to do when you're connected to a projector?
16:19
<hasather>
never done that
17:24
<met_>
http://www.google.com/trends?q=html%2C+xhtml%2C+xml
17:29
<Dashiva>
Lots of XHTML in Czech Republic (relatively)
17:30
met_
will stop googling for xhtml whole day and it will decrease 8-)
17:30
<met_>
and the winner is India
18:45
<annevk>
Presentation at reboot went quite good I think
18:46
<annevk>
Except that I had to switch to Windows last minute because I couldn't get multiple screens to work in Ubuntu on time
18:54
<met_>
annevk: are slide from your presentations somewhere? or it is the same html file with svg on background?
18:55
<annevk>
questions: why have <font>, is there multiple file upload, why not use xhtml, why make the language looser (we don't), how long before we can use it, ...
18:55
<annevk>
fortunately it's recorded...
18:55
<annevk>
met_, it's similar, but different
18:55
<annevk>
not online yet
18:55
<MikeSmith>
annevk - recored = videotaped?
18:56
<MikeSmith>
recorded
18:56
<annevk>
MikeSmith, yeah
18:56
<MikeSmith>
excellent
18:56
<MikeSmith>
how long was your actual presentation?
18:56
<met_>
questions - maybe update http://blog.whatwg.org/faq/ ?
19:05
<annevk>
MikeSmith, I think 30 minutes
19:05
<annevk>
MikeSmith, I think QA took about 10, not entirely sure
19:06
<zcorpan_>
annevk: you mean Q&A?
19:06
<annevk>
yeah
19:06
<annevk>
the audience was really involved, it was quite good
19:06
<annevk>
I guess everyone has opinions about HTML :)
19:06
<zcorpan_>
oh indeed
19:07
<Dashiva>
Did they understand document conformance?
19:07
<annevk>
I'm not sure
19:07
<annevk>
I don't think I did a good job of explaining it though
19:08
<annevk>
good point, I should add examples about a document that's syntacally correct but non conforming and one that's syntactically incorrect
19:08
<annevk>
anyway, got to go
19:08
<annevk>
got a flight in 30 minutes or so and I need a new book
19:09
<othermaciej>
HTML for Dummies!
19:10
zcorpan_
wonders when there will be an HTML5 for Dummies
19:12
<met_>
it will be HTML for Dummies 5
19:13
<zcorpan_>
oh right
19:14
<Dashiva>
I thought HTML5 was for dummies (too)
19:20
<othermaciej>
zing!
20:09
<zcorpan_>
wtf is this about? http://softwinsite.org/rss-publishing-software/firefox-and-its-advantages/
20:10
<met_>
zcorpan_ based on http://neoarticle.com/Article/Firefox-And-Its-Advantages/27309
20:10
<met_>
free article service
20:11
<zcorpan_>
ok, but what is the actual article about?
20:11
<met_>
do you have website with no content? no problem look on neoarticle.com for some free article, put them on you website and ... you have content. then add google adds and wait for money
20:11
<met_>
is whole about SEO and money
20:11
<zcorpan_>
ah
20:11
<met_>
hardly understandable for technical people 8-)
20:12
<met_>
not worth reading
20:12
<zcorpan_>
makes sense, the article is about nothing and there are lots of ads
20:13
<met_>
looks like all article from this domain vere copied from neoarticle.com
20:14
<Philip`>
Why would someone copy an article that's not even written in coherent English? There must be much better places to borrow from
20:14
<zcorpan_>
Philip`: who cares? it has lots of good keywords ;)
20:15
<zcorpan_>
even WHATWG in there
20:16
<met_>
Philip` as I have said, it's hardly understandable for technical people 8-)
20:16
<Philip`>
Oh, good point - I suppose they don't actually care what anyone thinks after having read it, as long as you look at their page once :-)
20:16
<zcorpan_>
so long as they get money from their ads
20:18
<Philip`>
Ooh, my advanced SEO techniques have finally given me higher Google ranking on my site's name than a material safety data sheet PDF for some single-sided woven tape
20:19
Philip`
should start selling links to people
20:20
met_
will blackmail Philip` about not telling Google that Philip` uses forbidden technique, so should be banned form google index completely
21:15
<ddfreyne>
Heh, people are saying HTML should have a </sarcasm> tag — open tag forbidden, close tag required :)
21:19
<jruderman>
lol
21:24
<met_>
it was on whatwg mailing list about 2 months ago
21:24
<met_>
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/011023.html
21:25
<ddfreyne>
Oh, hadn't seen it on the list yet… awesome.
21:25
<met_>
read whole thread
21:27
<Philip`>
It's more compatible with current authoring practices if both the opening and closing tags are optional
22:14
<gsnedders>
Philip`: yes, but that's a UA requirement! :P
22:14
<gsnedders>
</sarcasm>
22:37
<Philip`>
The main UA requirement would be for the UA to be AI-complete, so it can detect sarcasm and allow user stylesheets to highlight it in case the user wasn't reading carefully enough, which shouldn't be that hard
22:37
<Philip`>
If browsers developers concentrated all their effort on the AI, then once they've finished they can sit back and the rest of the browser can literally write itself, after pointing it at a few C++ tutorials
22:38
<annevk>
<ai> does that
22:38
<annevk>
specifically, "data:text/html,<ai>"
22:40
<zcorpan_>
annevk: are your slides available somewhere?
22:41
<Dashiva>
Philip`: Then what happens when the browser discovers the HTML tutorials on the web? :)
22:48
<Philip`>
Dashiva: I suppose you'd have to keep it in a carefully-controlled offline environment and only give it access to a limited number of documents, else it's likely to go insane like anyone else who looks at too much HTML
22:50
annevk
looks into putting his slides online
22:59
annevk
used the <u> element
23:01
<annevk>
Presentation is at http://www.w3.org/mid/op.ts7o3ua264w2qv⊙aooc
23:01
<zcorpan_>
cheers
23:01
<zcorpan_>
(as in thanks, not as in bye :) )
23:02
<zcorpan_>
annevk: btw, you don't need class="one-liner"
23:02
<zcorpan_>
body > * { page-break-after:always; }
23:03
<annevk>
I think this is faster in browsers :p
23:03
<zcorpan_>
yeah yeah :P
23:03
<karlUshi>
annevk has made a very good presentation of html5 at the XTech lightning talk
23:10
<zcorpan_>
annevk: lol at the plug :)
23:11
<annevk>
there were these Opera marketing people around :)
23:11
<zcorpan_>
ok :)
23:20
annevk
aded it to the list
23:42
Hixie
comes back from meeting with the TAG
23:42
<Hixie>
they didn't kill me!
23:42
<zcorpan_>
did you get some soup?
23:42
<Hixie>
they are apparently reconsidering their versioning finding
23:43
<zcorpan_>
is that http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/versioning ?
23:43
<Hixie>
i mean the one in www-arch
23:43
<Hixie>
but that document is part of the work they're doing yes
23:44
zcorpan_
isn't following what TAG are doing
23:44
<Hixie>
i wasn't either
23:44
<Hixie>
i pointed out to them that what they were doing wasn't really useful to the html work
23:44
<Hixie>
nor the css work
23:44
<Hixie>
they didn't seem horrified by this
23:52
<zcorpan_>
what is the finding saying? skimming that document didn't get me any wiser
23:54
<othermaciej>
Hixie: so they didn't hassle you about content sniffing?
23:54
<Hixie>
zcorpan_: that versioning information must be included
23:54
<zcorpan_>
ok
23:55
<Hixie>
othermaciej: they asked me what they could do. i suggested rescinding the mime type finding. we then discussed why the finding was great theoretically, but couldn't work in many cases.
23:55
<othermaciej>
neat
23:56
<Hixie>
i don't know if anything will happen
23:56
<othermaciej>
wow, the diagrams in that versioning finding hurt my brain
23:56
<Hixie>
(i don't really see the point of the tag frankly)