08:40
hsivonen
sees Ahem.ttf on android.git.kernel.org. Does Android ship with Ahem?
12:09
<jgraham>
hsivonen: If the doctype name is folded, is there any constraint on which way it should be folded? Fold-o-lowercase makes the most sense to me but isn't what Gecko does at the moment.
12:09
jgraham
is catching up with some of the email from the last month
12:13
<hsivonen>
jgraham: lower case seems more elegant and more sane when mapping to XML 1.0 but browser-wise, I'd just want to get an interned string
12:13
<jgraham>
hsivonen: OK.
12:40
<hsivonen>
heh. Geolocation is now seen as part of "html5" on twitter
18:04
<yecril71>
Microsoft Internet Explorer treats all unknown elements as empty.
18:05
<yecril71>
Only custom elements with namespace prefixes can contain other elements in the DOM.
18:06
<Philip`>
That's sort of true, except if you do document.createElement('foo') then it'll start parsing <foo> as non-empty
18:07
<Philip`>
i.e. <foo>a</foo><script>document.createElement('foo')</script><foo>b</foo> will produce an empty FOO element, then 'a', then an empty /FOO element, then a script element, then a foo element that contains 'b'
18:07
<yecril71>
That requires script support and does not work for restricted sites.
18:07
<Philip`>
Why would it be different in restricted sites?
18:08
<yecril71>
Because restricted sites do not allow scripts to run.
18:08
<Philip`>
Ah
18:08
<yecril71>
I know because I had to restrict several for my own use.
18:09
<yecril71>
Anyway, if the author wants arbitrary elements, he can use XML+CSS
18:09
<yecril71>
or XML+XSLT
18:10
<Philip`>
or a different browser
18:10
<yecril71>
There is no need to push them into HTML.
18:10
<yecril71>
The author surely can use a different browser.
18:10
<yecril71>
The problem is the viewer cannot.
18:12
Philip`
has to go away for a while
18:13
<Dashiva>
The combination of restricted site and restricted browser sounds like intranet
18:16
<yecril71>
Restricting sites is useful at home as well.
18:17
<yecril71>
Nobody likes the browser to hang in the middle of something.
18:23
<Dashiva>
There's no restriction on browsers at home, though.
18:25
<yecril71>
Internet Explorer has restricted zones.
18:25
<yecril71>
A site that belongs to a restricted zone is restricted.
18:26
<yecril71>
The decision on whether a site should be restricted is on the home user.
18:41
<Philip`>
If a user configures their browser so that some web sites stop working, that's the user's problem and it shouldn't be the authors' responsibility to cope with those atypical restrictions
18:42
<Philip`>
Is it just me, or is "Re: [whatwg] SPOOFED: Re: SPOOFED: Re: ---" a pretty rubbish subject line for an email thread?
18:50
<Lachy>
Philip`, the original message with the subject "[whatwg] ---" was even more rubbish
18:53
<Philip`>
Lachy: I disagree - I think the longer subject exhibits more of what kids nowadays would call "epic fail" than the original
18:54
<yecril71>
I think placing sites into the restricted zone is a typical setting.
18:54
<yecril71>
It is better to have them restricted than to have them break the browser.
18:54
<hsivonen>
hmm. Opera's "always standards mode" really means "map quirks to standards but keep almost standards as almost standards"
18:55
<Lachy>
the longer one is a result of poor spam filtering software and a lack of effort to manually clean it up, but the shorter one is a result of consiously using a bogus subject line
18:57
<yecril71>
The author�s responsibility is to publish valid content.
18:58
<yecril71>
Content that uses custom elements should remain invalid.
19:00
<yecril71>
"SPOOFED" means the presence of Envelope-Sender in this case.
19:00
<Philip`>
Lachy: So the shorter one is merely the result of consciously using a bogus subject line, whereas the longer one is a result of that plus poor spam filtering software plus another four authors who didn't bother fixing the subject and is therefore more rubbish
19:01
<yecril71>
It means WHATWG is posing as the author.
19:02
<Philip`>
That's because it's a pretty standard mailing list, so it's silly for a mail client to think that's a problem
19:03
<yecril71>
The world is a place of all sorts of weird things.
19:03
<Philip`>
That's what makes it interesting enough to bother living in :-)