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Comment on Designing a blog with html5 by Eulerplate, A Development Framework for Craftspeople « Byte Fair

Eulerplate, A Development Framework for Craftspeople « Byte Fair — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:05:35 +0000

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Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Alohci

Alohci — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:43:06 +0000

@Kevin – If I recall correctly such an idea was discussed on the w3c public-html mailing list (and probably elsewhere) and while it seems a good idea it raises all kinds of practical problems.

For example, what should happen if list A says it follows from list B, and list B says it follows from list A? What happens if list B and list C both say they follow from list A? Or what happens if list C says it follows from list B which says it follows list A, and then list B is deleted from the DOM in script?

No-one seemed to consider the use case valuable enough to want to identify all the possible issues that could arise, and define what should happen in each and every case, and then be in a position to get the browser manufacturers to sign up to implement it consistently.

Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Oli Studholme

Oli Studholme — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:34:10 +0000

@Philip & Sam — thanks for the extra info, I’ve updated the article.

@Louis — sorry for the typo! Corrected. Thanks for the polyfill too Also thanks to Matthew and @lennym for the code typo heads-up. Two typos!? I must be slipping >_<

@Kevin — I don’t know if there’s a way to do so. Hopefully someone will tell us if there is!

Comment on HTML5 Simplequiz 5: URLs of commenters by Cher Stewart

Cher Stewart — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:19:21 +0000

@ Mike – Because nesting an article within an article gives it the role of being a subarticle, indicating it no longer needs to stand on its own to be tagged as an article. I would love to see this added to the role attribute to indicate that it is a subarticle.

Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Kevin Sweeney

Kevin Sweeney — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Being able to break lists up is great, but I wish there was also a way to denote this relationship, aside from simply assuming that an ol with a “start” attribute continues the previous ol instance, which might not always be the case.

Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Niall McMahon

Niall McMahon — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:23:14 +0000

This will certainly come in handy. I’ve had to use specific values for each before, which isn’t too much of an issue for static lists, but it creates extra work if you were getting dynamic results from a database for example.

Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Louis

Louis — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:55:33 +0000

Hey, nice write-up, Oli. And thanks for mentioning my polyfill (which was improved recently by Remy Sharp). As Philip mentions, the latest Chrome Canary build supports reversed. That’s the only browser that I know of that has support. There’s still an open bug report for Gecko (linked in my blog post that you cited).

And one small correction: My last name is spelled “Lazaris”, not “Lazarus”. Common mistake, but I haven’t been resurrected yet.

Thanks again.

Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Sam Rayner

Sam Rayner — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:44:28 +0000

Comment on The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed by Philip Tellis

Philip Tellis — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:06:43 +0000

Very well written article, thank you. Just wanted to point out that the reversed attribute is supported by Chrome 18 (currently in the beta channel I think).

Comment on HTML5 Custom Data Attributes (data-*) by ASKWHYWEB Solutions

ASKWHYWEB Solutions — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:35:21 +0000

Nice article, perhaps it needs a slight modification to be understandable by some of the very fresh and new entries into JS and HTML5.

Overall, Very good effort. I like it.
Thanks