| 00:17 | <Hixie> | wow, lots of e-mails asking for href="" on all elements |
| 00:17 | <Hixie> | pity that would be nigh-on-impossible to implement |
| 00:18 | <Hixie> | if it wasn't for these pesky implementations, xhtml2 would have been on to something |
| 00:48 | Hixie | replies to 47 e-mails with what amounts to a one-word answer, "no". |
| 00:54 | <Hixie> | i feel bad |
| 00:55 | <Hixie> | i think i've now said no to about half a dozen suggestions by this Eugene T. S. Wong person. |
| 00:55 | <Hixie> | it really is nothing personal... it's just that in each case, the arguments against were stronger than the arguments in favour. :-( |
| 01:02 | <Hixie> | yay, i broke the 3500 barrier! |
| 01:03 | <Hixie> | down to 3482 issues |
| 08:14 | <tantek> | Hixie, re: nigh-on-impossible to implement href="" on all elements, it's actually not that bad. if you think of "hyperlinkness" as just a behavior that anything can have, it's quite trivial. As if you could just wrap an <a href> element (assuming proper inline/block embedding etc.) around the element being hyperlinked. |
| 20:32 | <Hixie> | gsnedders: eh, we published the html5 draft on the whatwg site, what more can we ask for :-) |
| 20:33 | <gsnedders> | Hixie: "Best/You've got to be the best/You've got to change the world/And you use this chance to be heard/Your time is now" |
| 20:47 | <gsnedders> | Hixie: rewrite the spec from scratch. kthxbai. |
| 20:47 | <Hixie> | heh |
| 20:47 | <Hixie> | already done! |
| 20:50 | <gsnedders> | <http://hg.gsnedders.com/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/http-parsing/rev/081bf04d92de>; — what isn't in RFC 2616 (unbelievably, and I have my doubts about whether such a thing will get into the bis) |
| 20:52 | <Hixie> | we can hope |
| 20:53 | <gsnedders> | I now need to add a section on comparing quoted strings, which calls that algorithm… |
| 20:53 | gsnedders | sighs |
| 20:54 | <gsnedders> | (oh, we're doing algorithms in computing at school now — vitally important for me, obviously) |
| 20:54 | <Hixie> | i never did algorithms. missed out on a bunch of stuff that i really should have learnt. |
| 20:55 | <Hixie> | big O() notation, sort algorithms, etc |
| 20:56 | <gsnedders> | oh, I mean the _really_ simplistic algorithms like in both of our specs |
| 20:56 | <gsnedders> | (well, arguably, they aren't that simple in parts, but compared with some stuff, they are) |
| 21:04 | <gsnedders> | and then we get to implement the algorithms… in BASIC. |