HTML5 Specifications Community Group

HTML5 tag proposal : sandbox

Loveneet S — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:03:58 +0000

HTML has evolved beyond the original 22 tags; and so has evolved the web and the supporting infrastructure around consuming HTML. Things are getting even more interesting with content being published (and micro-published) and then embedded (videos, widgets, scripts) as content within content. The content within the content (or micro-content) is (a) infrastructure driven, like embedding of scriptlets for web tracking (b) consumption driven, like widgets for news, weather, jobs (c) interaction driven, like videos, slideshows, micro-documents, spreadsheet snapshots and (d) submissions like search forms, data-capture fields, etc.

The micro-content in large part is distributed as a code fragment wrapped either in

Another example HTML fragment (news widget in sidebar). By default allows content which is plain HTML with links, text and associated styles.

Benefits:

Fine-grained control while composing content (or application output) from multiple sources
Shared responsibility between page author and user-agent
Takes the browser security to a new level
Portable permissions instead of relying on individual user-agent configuration options for various permutations and combinations.

Under what circumstances the new tag may not make sense:

User-agents take full resposibility of such fine grained permissions through their own implementations and user configuration options
Micro-content, content inclusion etc. become passé

A Propusal for A New Pseudo Element Called :icon

Anas R. — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:17:55 +0000

Take a look to this HTML5 code as shown here:

The question is: Isn’t icon="" attribute here a presentation attribute?
You might say yes, and it should be set using CSS like this:

command.align-right{icon: '....'}

However, this presentation attribute in turn needs presentation attributes! (position, padding…).

So, we need something in between: A Pseudo Element.
A Pseudo Element is simply an attribute has attributes.




.page-about:icon {
	content: char(ℹ);
	font: 10pt RichStyle;
	icon-position: top;
}

.domain-settings:icon {
	content: char(⚙);
	font: 10pt RichStyle;
	icon-position: top;
}

Thus, icon="" as an HTML attribute for should be deprecated.

The Shameless Plug Tag

Steven Gordon — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:02:55 +0000

Particularly with the rise in self promotional activities around Social Networks there is a need for a self promotional meta tag – distinct from factual content descriptive meta tags.

Insert Shameless Plug Here

When A Form Should Start Validation?

Anas R. — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:52:50 +0000

Let’s take a look to this simple demo form:
http://www.richstyle.org/demo-form.html

I use the following code to style the validation issue:

input:required + output::after,
textarea:required + output::after { content: '*'; }

input:invalid + output::after,
textarea:invalid + output::after { content: '⨉';color: maroon }

input:valid + output::after,
textarea:valid + output::after { content: '✓';color: green }

The only thing looks unacceptable, is that the form validation process starts just when the form is loaded, whilst, it’s much better to start it in each input field independently, as user starts write something in it.

So, I thought of inventing a new attribute called “start-validation” with the following values:

form {
	start-validation: on-load | on-focus | on-type | on-blur | on-submit;
}

Let’s free A and HREF!

Anas R. — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:16:16 +0000

Take a look to this example:



	Home
	About
	Downloads
	Contact
	Bookmark

Isn’t better if it was possible to be written like this:


	Home
	About
	Downloads
	Contact
	Bookmark

or even:


	Home
	About
	Downloads
	Contact
	Bookmark

I mean why should I have to add tag to every object/tag I want to link to something? Isn’t better if I were able to add href="" attribute to this object/tag without using tag?

Why don’t we use href="" as a global attribute?

Likewise, think of using tag without href="" when the link name = the link address:

.., you can download it from http://example.com/downloads/.

instead of:

.., you can download it from http://example.com/downloads/.

A Unified Naming Attribute for Everything

Anas R. — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:25:30 +0000

Hi all,

I’m glad to participate with the first post in this group

Has anyone thought of using label="" as a unified naming attribute; as an alternative to all naming tags and attributes:

, , , alt="", for="", title="", summary="".

title="" attribute could be deprecated in favor of a CSS attribute called title: with the following values:

{ title: attr(label) | attr(accesskey) | attr(label) attr(accesskey) | none }

The typical way for label="" presentation is to use :before and :after pseudo elements; beside the title: CSS attribute.

Hello world!

Ian Jacobs — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:43:35 +0000

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