- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:07:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > FROIDURE Nicolas wrote: > > - 2 attributes for <textarea> : max (like other fields) and type > > (to specify a text mime type for the content edition bbcode, html, > > xhtml, xbbcode etc...). It will be a good way to improve the quality > > of the web by improving the quality of user interventions. > > Already done, see maxlength and type at: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/web-forms-2/#extensions1 > > Although as I've pointed out before, MIME types are not a sufficiently > specific tool: they don't differentiate between different versions of > HTML, can't suggest microformats, can't differentiate between full > documents and fragments, and so forth. Also BBCode, XBBCode, and the > various Wiki dialects don't even have MIME type. (Mind you, WHATWG could > actually submit some MIME type registrations to make type work a bit > better for the real web.) So this area still desperately needs more > work. I've dropped type="" (actually accept=""), as discussed in the past few weeks, because there was no interest from user agents, it didn't seem to solve a problem that wasn't solved by class="", and it has a series of difficulties (such as those described above). > > - 1 attribute for code : type. > > Not done really. One option would be to add microformats to the Wiki for > different languages, I suppose. If you were to do so, I suggest > including version numbers. PHP4 should not necessarily be highlighted > the same as PHP5. Otherwise one might as well use type and MIME types, > just as for <script/>, although I suspect many languages lack MIME > types. I enourage people to use the class attribute for this (or data-something="" if they want to us this for input to a script). > > - maybe an attribute for em and strong. Something like "degree" > > and a numeric value to notice the emphase degree of the sentences. > > Whenever this semantic problem is raised, two alternatives are proposed: > either add an attribute to <em/> and <strong/> or specify the semantic > meaning of nesting <em/> and <strong/>. Web Applications 1.0 currently > goes for the second option: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-em > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-strong > > Question for the editor: how many <em/> equal one <strong/>? They are orthogonal as defined now. On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, FROIDURE Nicolas wrote: > > Maybe that the DTD syntax could be use. The official DTD for W3C > standards and a personal DTD for other languages. In all cases, i think > that bbcode, wiki and other 'easy' web languages with disappear when > browsers will include real WYSIWYG editors. That's an interesting but somewhat expensive idea. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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