- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:40:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Josh Aas wrote:
>
> - You use spacing in "HTML 4" inconsistently. Sometimes there is space
> between "HTML" and "4" and sometimes not. See the first two paragraphs
> of the introduction.
Fixed.
> - Section 1.1: "browsers prevalent in 2004" - could be more specific
> given that the number of decently conforming HTML 4 and DOM
> implementations can probably be counted on one hand (Gecko, KHTML, IE,
> Opera). This could better set the bar in terms of what is considered to
> be an acceptable implementation.
For political reasons it has been considered wiser not to actually mention
specific UAs. (In reality, user agents like Lynx and others were also
taken into account, actually.)
> - Section 1.2: perhaps "strong market *demand*" instead of "need".
> "need" is hard to justify, demand is not. And it sounds better.
Fair enough.
> - Section 1.8: digital signatures: can you include a list of patent
> numbers you are concerned about? If you don't do that, you're
> significantly adding to the amount of work somebody has to do to
> consider the problem.
I am not aware of specific patent numbers.
> - Section 2.2: hidden: "An arbitrary string that is not normally
> displayed to the user." Under what circumstances might a conforming UA
> display hidden input to a user? The HTML 4 spec makes no mention of such
> a circumstance.
HTML does not decide what gets shown. A stylesheet could easily say:
input[type=hidden]:after { content: attr(value); }
> - It is not clear to me why we need a month and week extension to the
> input element. Seems like it only complicates implementation and gives
> people who deal with dates more rows in the matrix of things they need
> to be able to handle. You can easily express both with date and
> datetime. Furthermore, figuring out a date's week # is simple. Even more
> so for months. I'd just think we should think hard before duplicating
> avenues for the same information.
type=month: Think about entering credit card expiry dates.
type=week: This is a very frequently used data type in European industry.
While it is true that you could ask someone to use a type="datetime"
control to state their credit card expiry date, I'd suggest it would not
be the most obvious UI.
HTH,
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