00:03
<Hixie>
the holidays are boring. no controversy on the tag or ac lists.
00:03
<Hixie>
still no replies to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Dec/0083.html
00:03
<Hixie>
and i doubt it's because everyone was suddenly convinced
00:07
<webben>
Hixie: That's a lovely simple case-study of why defining error-handling is a Good Thing.
00:23
<Hixie>
webben: yeah
00:31
<Hixie>
webben: i just love that it was brought up as an attempt of reductio ad absurdum, and it was really a perfect simple example
00:32
<webben>
very neat, yes :)
01:02
Hixie
learns about "SACD" disks
01:02
<Hixie>
apparently this christmas present will not play on normal audio players
01:02
<Hixie>
though the ps3 supports it!
01:03
<Hixie>
not that that helps me at all
01:03
<Hixie>
man, these have even more obnoxious drm than bluray
01:07
<webben>
Hixie: "not that that helps me at all" ... unless you were looking for an excuse to buy a PS3, presumably ;)
01:09
myakura
thinks that current PS3 has removed its playback
01:11
<Hixie>
they removed digital playback iirc
01:11
<Hixie>
but i think analog still works
01:11
<Hixie>
(by ps3 is hooked up to a 20 year old tv, so...)
01:14
<Lachy>
I'd never heard of an SACD before either
01:15
<Lachy>
wikipedia says there's currently no way to crack the DRM. That sucks.
01:15
<myakura>
yeah, that really sucks
01:15
<Lachy>
though if SACD ever becomes popular enough, someone will be motivated enough to crack it.
01:17
<Lachy>
I just buy all my music in DRM free format online anyway. I don't think I'd ever be interested in returning to physical media, especially with DRM, again
01:18
<Lachy>
I discovered that 7digital.com doesn't seem to enforce regional restrictions, like stores like Amazon MP3 do
01:18
<myakura>
(though the sound quality is way better than ordinary CDs, i kinda like the format
01:18
<Lachy>
I don't have a sound system that can take advantage of the better quality sound anyway
01:19
myakura
neither :(
01:19
<Lachy>
but even if I did, I'd still rather rip the music to a hard drive than have to use a disc
01:19
<Lachy>
that's what I do with my DVDs. Rip them with MacTheRipper and create an ISO with mkisofs
01:24
<Lachy>
btw, my christmas present is probably going to end up costing me up to $800 in a repair bill, thanks to faulty manufacturing of DVD packaging
01:25
<Lachy>
(that's $800 AUD. I was told up to 4000 NOK)
01:27
<webben>
faulty packaging did that?
01:27
<Hixie>
i have very nice speakers (audioengine5) but they're still just 2.0 stereo
01:28
<Hixie>
so this sacd is lost on me anyway
01:28
<Hixie>
oh well
01:28
<Hixie>
it's my fault, i should have noticed it wasn'ta cd when i put it on my amazon wishlist :-)
01:40
<Lachy>
webben, glue from the DVD packaging had become stuck to the underside of the disc, and without noticing, I put that into my DVD drive. The drive is now screwed
01:40
<webben>
eww... that's one to watch out for :(
01:40
<Lachy>
It was The Simpsons Season 11, limited editon collectors box set
01:41
<Lachy>
it worst package design I've ever seen. The discs are so hard to get out
01:42
<Lachy>
I contacted Fox today, asking them to replace the disc and compensate me for my repair expenses. Though it's the weekend and I probably won't hear back till next week
02:50
annevk
is back; time to go to bed :)
03:37
<Hixie>
so www.whatwg.org traffic spiked the week of feb 17th 2008, and the week of april 30th
03:37
<Hixie>
i wonder why
03:39
<dave_levin>
Happy birthday Hixie.
03:40
<Hixie>
thanks :-)
03:42
<Hixie>
i wonder which bot is using "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
03:42
<Hixie>
whatwg's highest usage is from that bot this month
03:56
<Hixie>
can someone tell me what this means?:
03:56
<Hixie>
> Just one thing: a note says a synthetic click doesn't perform the same
03:56
<Hixie>
> actions as required by the click() method, but those seems suitable as
03:56
<Hixie>
> pre-click activation steps (or post-click, if needed), eventually
03:56
<Hixie>
> telling the UA to take care of the synthetic click source (user's device
03:56
<Hixie>
> or document scripts) if such causes any difference, aren't they?
07:32
<zcorpan_>
hmm, either the forums weren't spammed during christmas, or it was cleaned up already
07:33
<zcorpan_>
190 new emails, less than i expected
07:42
<Hixie>
yeah so little e-mail
07:45
zcorpan_
wonders when https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8131 will be fixed
08:50
<zcorpan_>
Hixie: is this conforming? <svg><foreignobject> foo <br> baz </foreignobject></svg>
08:51
<Hixie>
i believe so
08:51
<Hixie>
though i don't know which spec is responsible for knowing how to render the "foo"
08:51
<Hixie>
ask the svg wg i guess
08:52
<zcorpan_>
the spec seems to only talk about which *elements* are allowed
08:53
<Hixie>
yes
08:53
<annevk>
Hixie, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)" was causing the huge traffic spike on html5.org
08:53
<Hixie>
annevk: did you get an IP address?
08:53
<zcorpan_>
what does interleaved mean? is it not allowed to nest mathml in html in svg?
08:53
<annevk>
Hixie, it uses a proxy
08:53
<annevk>
Hixie, lots of them
08:54
<Hixie>
annevk: which country?
08:54
<annevk>
dunno, I'm using the stats package from dreamhost
08:54
<annevk>
it seems it is still hitting the server, but it now gets 403 back (it always requested URIs with &amp; in them rather than &)
08:55
<Hixie>
zcorpan_: <a/><b/><a/><b/> is a and b interleaved together
08:55
<Hixie>
zcorpan_: <a/><a/><b/><b/> does not have interleaving
08:55
<Hixie>
zcorpan_: make sense?
08:57
<zcorpan_>
Hixie: yeah
08:57
<annevk>
<svg><foreignObject><h1>test</h1> <math/> <p>wow</p><foreignObjecct></svg> should be fine, no?
08:58
<Hixie>
what does svg say about how you render that?
08:58
<annevk>
dunno, I believe I asked once
08:59
<Hixie>
the reason i made the spec require all the html to be in one block is that then we can define the rendering sanely without stepping outside our area of responsibility and authority
08:59
<annevk>
I'd hope rendering of <foreignObject> does not depend on children...
09:00
<zcorpan_>
i think i tested this before and didn't find any interesting interop problems, so the svg spec should just allow it and define it
09:01
<Hixie>
well i don't really mind allowing multiple html blocks if we can define what it means somewhere
09:01
<Hixie>
svg 1.2 tiny got through CR, so presumably one just has to look at the tests they wrote to test <foreignObject>, and then see what part of the spec those tests are testing
09:02
<zcorpan_>
the svg 1.2 tiny testsuite is sad
09:02
<zcorpan_>
or should i say tiny
09:03
<Hixie>
i couldn't find it -- all i could find were about 600 tests somewhere
09:03
<Hixie>
i dunno where the actual test suite they used to exit CR is
09:03
<zcorpan_>
i think that's it
09:03
<Hixie>
what's it?
09:03
<zcorpan_>
the 600 tests are the testsuite
09:03
<Hixie>
can't be, that would mean they violated w3c process again
09:04
<zcorpan_>
i asked ed and he said there were about 600 tests
09:04
<zcorpan_>
iirc
09:04
<Hixie>
how odd
09:04
<Hixie>
i guess i'll ask www-svg
09:09
<annevk>
roc had some idea on how <foreignObject> should work at some point, though I believe it still had an issue with what exactly the root element would be
09:11
jgraham
wonders if zcorpan_ knows that he got invited to his house for New Year
09:12
<zcorpan_>
jgraham: yep :)
09:12
annevk
wonders if that sentence is grammatically dubious
09:12
<zcorpan_>
i.e. jgraham got invited to my house
09:13
<zcorpan_>
anyone else wanna join?
09:15
zcorpan_
takes that as a no
09:16
<takkaria>
christ, Hixie, you've been working hard the last few days
09:17
annevk
will come to Linkoping somewhere in 2009 for slightly longer than a day :)
09:18
<zcorpan_>
annevk: we should have a beer at de klomp then
09:18
<annevk>
hehe
09:19
zcorpan_
has been there once already
09:19
<annevk>
full of Dutchies?
09:19
<zcorpan_>
some of them were dutch
09:19
<annevk>
seems Hixie reached a new low: http://www.whatwg.org/issues/data.html
09:22
<zcorpan_>
though i had to ask for frietssaus so i'm a bit disappointed
09:22
<annevk>
maybe 'cause it's called mayo?
09:23
<zcorpan_>
whatever it's called i didn't get it without asking for it
09:24
<annevk>
:/
09:24
<annevk>
do they have poffertjes? :)
09:24
<zcorpan_>
and they didn't wet the glass before drawing the beer
09:25
<zcorpan_>
no don't think so
09:25
<zcorpan_>
i had poffertjes when we were in amsterdam
09:36
<Hixie>
i'm trying to reach 1500 by the 31st
09:38
<takkaria>
Hixie: going on vacation any time soon?
09:38
<Hixie>
no
09:48
<roc>
annevk: what's the issue with foreignobject rendering?
09:50
<annevk>
roc, if <foreignObject> gives you a viewport, like <iframe> or something, what is the root element in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing-block-details ?
09:50
<annevk>
in a case like <foreignObject> <html/> <html/> </foreignObject>
09:50
<roc>
ah
09:50
<roc>
this is certainly underspecified
09:50
<roc>
in Mozilla, <foreignObject> does not create a viewport
09:52
<roc>
it wraps the children in an anonymous block which is a block formatting context and an abs-pos container
09:52
<roc>
it should also be a fixed-pos container; we don't do that yet
09:52
<annevk>
ok, so a new kind of container basically?
09:53
<roc>
only the fixed-pos container part is really new
09:53
<roc>
but CSS transforms also need to create fixed-pos containers that are not the viewport
09:54
<roc>
and it's not that hard to do
09:55
<roc>
we already implemented fixed-pos container-ness for CSS transforms and extending that to foreignobject should be simple
09:56
<annevk>
kk
09:58
<roc>
I realize these decisions are a bit arbitrary but obviously if any child of the foreignobject can have a containing block that's outside the foreignobject, you're doomed
10:51
<Hixie>
some spec should actually define that somewhere
10:51
<Hixie>
but html5 isn't the right spec, so...
11:05
<Hixie>
gah, i wish there an xml parser spec
11:05
<Hixie>
where do specs define that a 'load' event is fired after parsing an xml doc?
11:05
<Hixie>
sigh
11:05
<Hixie>
maybe i should write a section for html5 that defines an xml parser
11:14
<Hixie>
i wonder what state dom3 events is in
11:14
<Hixie>
anyone following that at all?
11:16
<zcorpan_>
not me, though i probably should
11:17
<zcorpan_>
Hixie: <pre><code> breaks the leading line break authoring convenience feature
11:17
<Hixie>
as far as i can tell it _fixes_ the feature :-P
11:18
<zcorpan_>
and makes some people write <code><pre> instead which made you have to expand the aaa list
11:18
<Hixie>
*shrug*
11:56
<Lachy>
wtf? I just got a BSOD in Windows XP running inside a Virtual Machine
11:58
<Hixie>
what was the error?
12:04
<Lachy>
it was one that required it instantly restart, so I didn't get a chance to read the BSOD, as it only flashed for a second
12:08
<Philip`>
You can configure whether Windows restarts automatically on BSOD
12:08
<Philip`>
in, uh, Control Panel -> System -> Error Recovery or something like that?
12:09
<Philip`>
otherwise it'll always just restart straight away
12:24
<Lachy>
Philip`, I've had BSODs in the past that didn't automatically restart, and I've never touched that setting before
13:09
<zcorpan_>
is it just me or is lists.w3.org down?
13:09
<Hixie>
lists.w3.org is down more often than whatwg.org
13:13
<karlcow>
and me who thought that someone grew older a few days ago
13:13
<Hixie>
?
13:14
<Hixie>
i believe that statement to be accurate
13:14
<Hixie>
whatwg.org is down all the time
13:14
<Hixie>
and lists.w3.org is down more often
13:14
<Hixie>
it's actually rather annoying (indeed, both are)
14:12
<gsnedders>
BenMillard has managed to get Hixie to call me "G" now, too :P
14:16
<zcorpan_>
Hixie, annevk: http://simon.html5.org/dump/content-venn.svg
15:58
<karlcow>
zcorpan_: http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/html-wg/20081228#l-92
17:04
<gsnedders>
Hixie: yt?
17:23
gsnedders
notes (gladly) he's got no bug reports on Anolis since 1.0 shipped
21:00
jwalden
applauds http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#sectioning-root for (already) saying that headings inside blockquotes don't contribute to outlines
21:00
<jwalden>
was afraid I was going to have to propose that to the list :-)
21:00
<gsnedders>
jwalden: But that means I don't need to read the algorithm and work that out! That's boring!
21:02
gsnedders
should create a service which just displays the outline for a document
21:17
<Philip`>
gsnedders: Does it really need to be a service, and not just a bookmarklet or whatever those things are called?
21:38
<gsnedders>
There are duplicate tests in the validator tests in html5ib
21:40
<Philip`>
That's to provide extra assurance that the validator implementations are deterministic, and that they don't fail if you feed them the same input twice
21:44
<gsnedders>
Actually, I think I'm being stupid
21:44
<gsnedders>
They are however outdated
21:49
<virtuelv>
gsnedders: just FYI, RDF is still relevant
21:49
<virtuelv>
thinking otherwise is misguided, at best
21:50
<virtuelv>
fwiw, on the relevance of w3c: web technologies are being used outside of average web 2.0-startups
21:50
<virtuelv>
(In reply to various tidbits on twitter)
21:51
Philip`
has only interacted with RDF data once, and that was dmoz.org's URL listing, and he just used regexps for that since he had no idea what else to do with it :-(
21:53
<virtuelv>
I'd just like to point out that every firefox extension uses rdf
21:54
gsnedders
notes that doesn't help bots crawling the web understand it
21:55
<gsnedders>
virtuelv: I'd say it'd be a push to say that RDF was irrelevant. but is it relevant for what it set out to do (i.e., making the web more semantic)? I see almost no websites using RDF, so it doesn't seem to have done what it was meant to
21:56
<virtuelv>
gsnedders: the web also happens to be more than what google is willing to index
21:56
<virtuelv>
"almost no websites"?
21:56
<virtuelv>
you know that RSS 1.0 is RDF?
21:56
<virtuelv>
and FOAF?
21:56
<gsnedders>
Yes, I am aware.
21:56
<gsnedders>
I have written a not unheard of feed parser
21:56
<virtuelv>
(Note, I'm not a huge RDF fan myself, but calling it "irrelevant" is hyperbole)
21:57
<gsnedders>
From a parsing point of view, RSS 1.0 isn't whatsoever
21:57
<gsnedders>
I don't think I touch anything in the RDF namespace at all
21:58
<gsnedders>
Well, apart from checking the root element
21:59
<virtuelv>
that you don't have to use an RDF parser to parse it, doesn
21:59
<virtuelv>
't make it any less RDF
21:59
<gsnedders>
That you don't need to touch RDF at all does in my mind make the fact it is technically RDF irrelevant
22:00
Philip`
wonders what the motivation is for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420506
22:00
<virtuelv>
fwiw, behind the scenes, http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/ is all semweb
22:02
<virtuelv>
(There was a pretty awesome presentation about that site at XTech in Dublin this year)
22:02
gsnedders
would've gone to XTech is study leave had started when it normally did and not two weeks later
22:02
<svl>
Philip`: iirc mostly that RDF code in Mozilla is effectively unmaintained and hard to work with.
22:02
<gsnedders>
*if
22:05
<Philip`>
I'm sure I saw something some time ago discussing trying to remove Mozilla's dependency on RDF for extensions, but I can't remember where I found that
22:06
<roc>
RDF might be an OK interchange format for some uses, but it's totally inappropriate as an internal data structure for an aplication
22:11
<virtuelv>
roc: and while I agree with that, I still hope that people can stop labelling it as "irrelevant" and other hyperbole
22:28
<gsnedders>
Anyone got any music suggestions for me?
22:32
<annevk>
oi va voi
22:32
<annevk>
spinvis
22:33
<virtuelv>
annevk: in Norway already again?
22:34
<annevk>
yeah, to celebrate new year and do some work :)
22:35
<svl>
gsnedders: http://viennateng.com/listen/ (in general: what kind of music do you like?)
22:35
<gsnedders>
svl: That's a hard question to answer. I like random things of pretty much any genre.
22:36
<annevk>
(my second suggestion is Dutch music btw)
22:36
<virtuelv>
gsnedders: Jan Garbarek
22:36
<gsnedders>
svl: http://www.last.fm/user/gsnedders if you want to get a vague idea
22:36
<gsnedders>
(the top two bands are such primarily because they a) have a lot of albums, b) I own all their albums)
22:39
<svl>
gsnedders: Almost but not entirely completely unlike my own taste. The one strain of recommendations I have branch off from Death Cab for Cutie: Try Mesh - http://www.mesh.co.uk/ - and No-man - http://www.myspace.com/nomanuk
22:39
<gsnedders>
annevk: The second one sounds nice, I just fail to understand everything :)
22:47
gsnedders
listens to preview of Mesh on last.fm and concludes it's way too like EDM
22:47
<gsnedders>
(EDM that I can at all stand is rare)
22:51
<gsnedders>
OK, nice load of suggestions
22:54
<jgraham>
gsnedders: Random bands I have recently liked: Sigur Ros, The Decemberists, Malcolm Middleton
22:54
<jgraham>
s/bands/artists/
22:55
<jgraham>
Bright Eyes, Bat for Lashes
22:55
<jgraham>
Joy Division, Arcade Fire
22:56
gsnedders
notes jgraham's list is longer than pretty much everyone else's put together ;)
22:56
<gsnedders>
* :)
22:56
<jgraham>
I can go on :)
22:57
<jgraham>
(but I don't know if I'm being useful or just naming bands that I like)
22:57
gsnedders
has heard of most of them
22:57
<jgraham>
Belle & Sebastian, Nick Cave
22:57
<gsnedders>
jgraham: Oh, I like so much random stuff that naming bands you like is about as useful as you can be :)
22:59
<jgraham>
http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/ has a bunch of free sigur ros to download
22:59
<gsnedders>
That's a good price.
23:01
<gsnedders>
jgraham: Sorry, but Malcolm Middleton has a Scottish accent from the wrong part of Scotland.
23:01
jgraham
wonders who gsnedders hasn't heard of
23:02
<jgraham>
gsnedders: Falkirk?
23:02
<jgraham>
Why is that the wrong part of scotland?
23:02
<gsnedders>
jgraham: Wrong accent.
23:02
<gsnedders>
:)
23:04
<jgraham>
Oh well, I thought you'd like the humor and misery
23:06
<gsnedders>
:P
23:06
<gsnedders>
Nah, most of his stuffis decent
23:08
<gsnedders>
jgraham: I've heard of obscure stuff, just not what my friends have heard of ;)
23:08
<gsnedders>
* :)
23:08
gsnedders
can't type toniht
23:08
<gsnedders>
*tonight
23:11
<jgraham>
gsnedders: Eh? Since I don't know what your friends have heard of that doesn't help much
23:11
<gsnedders>
jgraham: Oh, like what's actually popular
23:11
<jgraham>
Also: Flight of the Conchords (but it's good if you watch the TV show too)
23:12
<jgraham>
gsnedders: I have no idea what is acually popular. Nothing I like I guess
23:12
<jgraham>
Jeff Buckley. Is that too obvious?
23:12
<gsnedders>
jgraham: Nor do I. That's why I don't know what they like.
23:12
<jgraham>
amiina http://www.myspace.com/amiina
23:13
jgraham
doesn't thinnk he has ever linked to myspace before
23:14
gsnedders
wonders who in #whatwg has MySpace
23:14
gsnedders
doesn't
23:17
gsnedders
has been meaning to get some The View since before anyone had heard of them
23:17
<jgraham>
In other random culture recommendations, anyone who is in London soonish should try to visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum
23:17
<gsnedders>
jgraham: "soonish"?
23:18
<jgraham>
Before it closes. I don't quie recall when that is. Maybe april?
23:18
<gsnedders>
26 Apr 2009
23:18
<gsnedders>
There's also an exhibition on Darwin till the 19th
23:19
gsnedders
wonders whether to go to London in Feb
23:25
<gsnedders>
me is very submissive, apparently
23:29
gsnedders
wonders how you pronounce Amiina
23:35
jgraham
generally has no idea how to pronounce icelandic words
23:41
<gsnedders>
Anyone got any clue about why <http://www.jrcnetwork.com/designprohibited/>; doesn't have its background image (which is a JPEG) match up (in a colour sense) with the background colour in Safari?
23:41
<Hixie>
the JPEG probably has a color space set
23:41
<Hixie>
to something other than sRGB
23:42
<jgraham>
I agrre with Hixie although it sems to WFM
23:42
<gsnedders>
Ah, OK
23:42
gsnedders
forgot that JPEG could have gamma explicitly
23:43
<Hixie>
oh yeah, could be the gamma too
23:45
<jgraham>
The colour space is set to sRGB
23:45
<gsnedders>
If I'm not reading the metadata wrong, it is sRGB, and there is no gamma set
23:48
<jwalden>
hm, html5 doesn't allow a profile attribute on <head>? seems like that "breaks" the part of the web that's wordpress-based, mostly
23:48
<gsnedders>
jwalden: One update to WP can fix that
23:48
<Hixie>
jwalden: how does it break it?
23:48
<gsnedders>
jwalden: And WP is XHTML anyway, and good luck convincing them to output HTML.
23:48
<gsnedders>
Sorry, "XHTML".
23:48
<jwalden>
Hixie: "breaks" in the sense of doesn't validate, hence the quotes
23:48
<Hixie>
oh well it doesn't validate as html5 anyway
23:49
<Hixie>
it's html4 :-)
23:49
<Hixie>
or xhtml1
23:49
<gsnedders>
No, it's XHTML 1.0
23:49
<Hixie>
either way
23:49
<Hixie>
it's not going to validate
23:49
<jwalden>
sure, I'm ignoring the doctype error I get now
23:49
<gsnedders>
It's impossible to get WP to output HTML 4.01