Re: ISSUE-65: Should Window spec add parentWindow property to documents?

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: Options would be: 1) forget about defaultView, just have parentWindow 2) don't add parentWindow 3) keep both I favor #3. Agreed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: ISSUE-66: should Documents that aren\'t being presented be required to have a null defaultView?

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: It also requires that if any document that *isn't* being presented in a browsing context implements the DocumentWindow interface, then the defaultView must be null. Ian Hickson questioned whether it makes sense to require this - I am

Re: ISSUE-65: Should Window spec add parentWindow property to documents?

2006-04-05 Thread Ian Hickson
. defaultView and parentWindow definitely both get used. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ISSUE-73: Are we going to support non-ECMAScript languages?

2006-04-06 Thread Ian Hickson
binding and no _not_ permit a JS implementation to expose that API. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: several messages

2006-04-06 Thread Ian Hickson
, and the location and cookie properties of the DocumentWindow # object, must return null, and any methods that are defined in terms of # the browsing context's session history must do nothing. (...except change DocumentWindow to something more correct.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: several messages

2006-04-06 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote: So I am not sure that the connection between script and Window is the right one. It's about ten years too late to change this... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

re: (XMLHttpRequest 2) Proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest

2006-04-10 Thread Ian Hickson
are clear that it can't give you any information that getResponseHeader() can't give you. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: (XMLHttpRequest 2) Proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Hickson
independently of the other. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: XHR: restrictions on request headers

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Julian Reschke wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: ... But I would add one more. Authors are stupid. We shouldn't provide them with features whose only possible use is for them to shoot themselves in the foot. In other words, I would phrase the question not as which headers

Re: Further update to Window Object 1.0, I think it's ready for first Working Draft

2006-04-13 Thread Ian Hickson
at a minimum going forward. Sounds good. Let me know when you think you've addressed all my comments so I can do another thorough review. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: Potential security risk of XHR in distributed authoring

2006-04-14 Thread Ian Hickson
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Site_Scripting The solution is to not allow scripts uploaded by one user to be displayed to another user, or to only allow them to be displayed on a site that is unrelated to where you are doing your authenticated edits. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: ACTION-25: Make a proposal for the additions that the mobile folks have been asking for in keyboard events

2006-04-14 Thread Ian Hickson
+0039 (0-9), U+0023 (#) and U+002A (*). This only really makes sense if we do the same with A-Z keys on Western keyboards, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: (XMLHttpRequest 2) Proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest

2006-04-14 Thread Ian Hickson
introduces security vulnerabilities). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: (XMLHttpRequest 2) Proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest

2006-04-17 Thread Ian Hickson
-flight check. OK; I wasn't sure if you were retracting that or not. I think we should retract it for POST. I agree we should keep it for non-GET and non-POST methods. I'll post an updated proposal that takes into account comments so far later today. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

(XMLHttpRequest 2) Second proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest

2006-04-17 Thread Ian Hickson
not return any header values except for the following headers: Cache-Control, Content-Language, Content-Type, Expires, Last-Modified, Pragma. The document.cookie attribute must return the empty string, and must do nothing when set. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: several messages

2006-04-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Ian Davis wrote: On 18/04/2006 00:12, Ian Hickson wrote: Access check: If there are response headers with the name Content-Access-Control, then they must have their values parsed as the data part of an ?access-control? PI. My concern with this security

Re: several messages

2006-04-18 Thread Ian Hickson
or an older system (indeed, the older the better, as it'll work with more browsers). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ISSUE-75: Is method case-sensitive?

2006-04-20 Thread Ian Hickson
accurately represent what implementations do is useless. Make it implementable, take into account feedback from implementers who are telling you the constraints, and don't write a spec that you know will not represent reality. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: ISSUE-75: Is method case-sensitive?

2006-04-21 Thread Ian Hickson
, it means there's no point requiring put to be sent as put instead of PUT because an implementor has informed you that implementors use network libraries that are outside their controls and these libraries sometimes convert put to PUT. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [comment] XMLHttpRequest Object - testable assertions

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
HTTP. I have made this change, are there similar examples elsewhere in the draft? How do you test that requirement? I'm confused as to why that is a conformance requirement and what it means. Shouldn't that just be non-normative introductory text? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: [comment] XMLHttpRequest Object - Address Extensibility

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
in designing the real feature. (Or, would have been forced to call it something else.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [comment] XMLHttpRequest Object - Address Extensibility

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
convention to everything. Just have the spec say the preferred syntax for extensions is to have the vendor name in the extension. No reason to make any sort of conformance statement out of it -- how would you test it anyway? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: ISSUE-75: Is method case-sensitive?

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Let's face it, XMLHttpRequest only offers access to a subset of HTTP protocol features, this is not avoidable, now let's pick that subset based on pragmatic considerations, not theoretical purity. Hear hear. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: ISSUE-75: Is method case-sensitive?

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
significant use, is not really a major issue. But let's not just casually increase spec complexity without doing our due diligence. Again, hear hear. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: XMLHttpRequest progress events

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
gigabytes in size, I would request that you please provide the numbers in consistent units (bytes) if you provide them at all. I don't want to have to back-compute the bytes transferred or have to special case different sizes of files. Bytes are nice and simple and work. -- Ian Hickson

Re: XMLHttpRequest.responseXML and invalid XML documents

2006-04-25 Thread Ian Hickson
be parsed into a DOM as XML can. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Fwd: ACTION-169: Mouse wheel events

2006-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Proposed IDL interface for WheelEvent: interface WheelEvent : UIEvent { interface MultiWheelEvent : UIEvent { I recommend inheriting from MouseEvent instead of UIEvent. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: ACTION-169: Mouse wheel events

2006-05-12 Thread Ian Hickson
in which the wheel is not on a mouse, I guess screenX/Y and clientX/Y are 0? They are presumably the same value as they are on click events that are dispatched as the default action of keyboard events. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch

Re: XMLHttpRequest.abort()

2006-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:22:49 +0200, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been asked a couple of times before. At some point reset will be defined and it will say that all members of the object are set to their initial value

Re: XHR constructor example

2006-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
those), it's generally considerd quite bad practice. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: XHR constructor example

2006-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2006 14:05:57 +0200, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); Given that it doesn't have to be a request I think 'r' is saver or perhaps just 'x'... Please don't use single letter

Re: ACTION-87: Selectors API

2006-05-30 Thread Ian Hickson
array. I actually like this idea a lot since that'll integrate much better with scripts than a StaticNodeList would. That makes a lot of sense. I support this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

(XMLHttpRequest 2) Third proposal for cross-site extensions to XMLHttpRequest

2006-06-06 Thread Ian Hickson
that the Cross-site Extensions to XMLHttpRequest specification should have the acronym XXX. I figure if I'm going to be involved in a spec that has an X in the name, I'd better go the whole way. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: Extension HTTP methods

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Hickson
the way it is is Security). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Extension HTTP methods

2006-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
names. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Include Referer-HTTP-header in requests from XMLHttpRequests

2006-06-29 Thread Ian Hickson
to Xmlhttprequest), a simple one-domain XMLHttpRequest call can trivially turn into a cross-domain call simply by hitting a redirect. IMHO the restrictions for XXX should be the same as for normal XMLHttpRequest, otherwise we're just asking for obscure security bugs. -- Ian Hickson

Re: [selectors-api] Security Considerations and stability

2006-07-26 Thread Ian Hickson
and, indeed, a community dedicated to finding such issues. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] Security Considerations and stability

2006-07-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 27 juil. 06 à 07:08, Ian Hickson a écrit : On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is hostile content? Content that attempts to subvert the implementation. Then say it. I think it will help. I'll leave that up to the editor

Re: XMLHttpRequest conformance comments

2006-07-31 Thread Ian Hickson
. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] Security Considerations and stability

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 27 juil. 06 à 10:17, Ian Hickson a écrit : Note that we were more than happy to see a security section. Personally I think that having a separate security section is a bad way of designing a spec, since it doesn't encourage you to think

[File Upload] Security problems with File Upload

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Hickson
clicking game attack will be unsuccessful, by positioning the file dialog such that the button location doesn't coincide with a sensitive part of the dialog.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [File Upload] Security problems with File Upload

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Hickson
the APIs for browsers to an absolute minimum, especially now with the ballooning number of new APIs that are being specified, and for HTML browsers I really think it would be much simpler (and safer) to stick this on the end of HTMLInputElement rather than have a whole new API. -- Ian Hickson

Re: Cross-site extensions for XMLHttpRequest (XXX...)

2006-09-24 Thread Ian Hickson
on timescale. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: XMLHttpRequest: Why list HTTP method names

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Hickson
that did not support, say, GET or POST but only did HEAD would be useless. Of course. But you don't need a spec to tell you that. Famous last words... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: ISSUE-102: CSS selectors for namespace prefixes

2006-11-15 Thread Ian Hickson
this issue. Doesn't that make it impossible to match an uppercase prefix? Or am I missing something? Selectors are case-insensitive; thus there can't be an uppercase prefix. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

RE: Selectors API naming

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Hickson
themselves Hmm. Now what does select() do in this particular situation?. Then we should switch to Chinese for method names. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

RE: Selectors API naming

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Hickson
be document.select(). It's clear what it does given the context, and fits in well with the similar existing functionality, document.all. Would select() be ok with you? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: Selectors API naming

2006-12-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Robin Berjon wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 23:02, Ian Hickson wrote: This thread is going nowhere. I propose that we let the document's editor take into account all the input and then have the editor make a decision that addresses everyone's concerns as much

Re: Selectors API naming

2006-12-20 Thread Ian Hickson
someone decide on a compromise? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Selectors API naming

2006-12-21 Thread Ian Hickson
and decisions. Naturally, this should be based on all the feedback received, but sometimes overall spec quality argues that not everyone can be happy. Having compromises where everyone can live with it means that the overall quality is lower for everyone. Then we all lose. -- Ian Hickson

Re: NSResolver Re: Selectors API naming (off-topic)

2006-12-22 Thread Ian Hickson
). FWIW, the special casing was done at the request of the HTML working group. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

heads-up on use of unnamespaced event types in XBL2

2007-01-05 Thread Ian Hickson
FYI, the XBL2 spec currently defines two events, 'xbl-bound' and 'bindings-are-ready', without namespaces. If anyone thinks that these events should be namespaced, please let me know. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: heads-up on use of unnamespaced event types in XBL2

2007-01-08 Thread Ian Hickson
. Yeah, I agree with that. What's the rationale for not having bindings-are-ready and bound? 'bound' on its own is too vague. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
precedent in the new world of public Web spec development. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
group override the editor on such a trivial issue as naming is a bad precedent for open Web spec development. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
creep and certainly, as you point out, without letting their own opinions make them ignore important parts of the community. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
micromanaging the names.) I should probably point out that I represent a company whose opinion is that the longer names are fine. I'm not worried about what the names are. My point is that the process by which the names were obtained is not a good one, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U

Re: Editorial Control (was: Selectors API naming)

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
that the editor is not being forced down a path that represents the community better, but is just being forced to take a different minority position? Especially on an issue that, as you point out, will never be more than a minor pain? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Selectors API naming

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
criteria. If it helps, as one of the editors of the Selectors specification, I would say that it isn't incorrect to consider div, p to be a selector (singular). The terminology in the spec says that technically that's a group of selectors, but I wouldn't worry about that. -- Ian Hickson

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Hickson
of: MUST fire at zero bytes MUST fire again at the end, even if that is zero bytes SHOULD fire at least once every 500ms in between the above two events, unless no progress has been made in that time. SHOULD NOT fire more than once every 10ms. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Ian Hickson wrote: I haven't actually looked at the spec, but, I would recommend something along the lines of: Apparently I should have given rationales, so: MUST fire at zero bytes ...so that progress bars can be initialized with the right length

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Jim Ley wrote: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MUST fire again at the end, even if that is zero bytes ...so that progress bars can be easily guarenteed to reach the 100% mark, which is important for usability. Using onload is sensible

Re: Progress event spec

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Hickson
, then removed by the handler for the existing 'load' event, we can easily foster backwards-compatible UI that will work identically in old and new UAs with the exception of having nice updating progress bars in the new UAs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

Re: ISSUE-112: Should progress run a UI or rely on other stuff too?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: Is it worth adding to progress events to support this use case, or should it stay as small as possible? Are there any other actual use cases? What else would you use the progress events for if not a standard progress UI? -- Ian Hickson

Re: ISSUE-112: Should progress run a UI or rely on other stuff too?

2007-02-10 Thread Ian Hickson
the hard work. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: New Progress Events spec

2007-03-06 Thread Ian Hickson
Events. The acknowledgements refer to the WHATWG progress event proposal as being invaluable in preparing this draft, but that seems unlikely since there is no such proposal (the provided reference is to the progress element, a UI widget). HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Network API editor's draft

2007-03-07 Thread Ian Hickson
the definitions back to HTML5 to deal with the more complicated cases which the Windows spec says are out of scope.) Could you give an exact list of the changes between the WHATWG draft and this one? (Ideally to the level of individual word and markup changes?) Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U

Re: File upload interface (fwd)

2007-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
section is empty. fileName: The name of the file, exclusive of its path. Good. - Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] update from the editor

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Hickson
% of the multibillion document sample) that the numbers are probably swamped by the error margin. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Method overloading in IDL

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: The problem we want to solve with the ES Bindings specification is that Who is we here? IMHO, the problem we want to solve is the lack of a clear and succint yet detailed formal definition of how DOM objects in JS should be implemented. -- Ian

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Hickson
, is the answer acceptable? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Running script in non-active documents

2007-05-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: The case I was particularly concerned about was not presented vs not presented, but has its own global scripting context and is neutral to script. A document in an IFRAME has its own Window -- if you have navigated away

DOMContentLoaded

2007-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
FYI, DOMContentLoaded is now defined as part of HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-06-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Does: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#browsing ...(specifically point 4 in the algorithm) Quite frankly, I don't see how point 4 is compatible with the real world. In particular, if point 4

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
not sure I remember which it was. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ACTION-61: text for embedding part of the Window object

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
do about that. It almost seems like window names should be scoped to origins But I bet that would break some site somewhere. :( Indeed, I tried doing that earlier and you complained, saying it would break sites. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Prototype chain for objects that implement multiple interfaces

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
-compatible way for compatibility with Web content, as I understand it. So the sooner we define how this is to work, the sooner we can get wider consistency and less browser differences that affect authors. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: Bindings spec ready for FPWD?

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Hickson
native representation of a byte array than a UTF-16 string. Editorial: you have which functions, analagously to the (extraneous comma) in various places. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: DOMContentLoaded

2007-07-12 Thread Ian Hickson
to have finished and then fires. As far as I can tell the spec is exact about this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [xhr] cross site proposal headers

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Hickson
. Non-idea for the end-user, but by their own choice. Referer is also blocked when going from https:// to http://, for the same reasons as above, and we want Referer-Root available then too. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U

Re: [progress-events] stalled, lengthComputable, loadstart vs begin

2007-07-31 Thread Ian Hickson
, it should probably be listed as something that specifications should only include if it is considered useful for that particular case. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [Bindings] extended attribute for callback function interfaces?

2007-10-17 Thread Ian Hickson
spec, I can just define a preprocessor step for this for myself.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [Bindings] extended attribute for callback function interfaces?

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Cameron McCormack wrote: Ian Hickson: Our conclusion was that we would like a way to mark an interface as being a callback and thus implementable as a function, with the interface having one method, that method defing the signature of the function. Such interfaces

Re: Window pointer

2007-11-19 Thread Ian Hickson
lifetime, depending on which document is active. What should happen when the original document is no longer the active document? Directly accessing window.document at that point could be across-origin error. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http

Re: Window pointer

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Hickson
my testing: http://tc.labs.opera.com/apis/XMLHttpRequest/open/031.htm Then again, there's no specification that I know of that defines when the document attribute on the Window object changes, exactly. HTML5 does. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: Window pointer

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Actually it does, in that navigation is the only way to change the window.document attribute's value. Removing an iframe from another document doesn't affect the iframe's Window object's document attribute. Is navigation

Re: OPTIONS and Method-Check

2008-01-12 Thread Ian Hickson
it as it gives more information to the server about what is going on and can help inform the server's response. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] What DOM feature Selectors API belongs to?

2008-02-14 Thread Ian Hickson
it now support Selectors API? Your answer is yes. mine, according to your specification - no. Yet if the spec had had a hasFeature check, it would be returning true right now, since they would have implemented that too. So hasFeature() doesn't solve your problem either. -- Ian Hickson

RE: [selectors-api] What DOM feature Selectors API belongs to?

2008-02-14 Thread Ian Hickson
think this is a highly theoretical concern and in practice hasFeature() is a waste of time and effort (and memory and CPU and bandwidth). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things

Re: [selectors-api]

2008-02-19 Thread Ian Hickson
matches it? That seems like optimising for the wrong case in a pretty big way. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Progress events progress...

2008-02-22 Thread Ian Hickson
sense to have authoring conformance requirements for this spec at all. Anyway. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: Requirements... Re: Progress events progress...

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Hickson
? How do you mean? Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: ElementTraversal comments

2008-02-26 Thread Ian Hickson
, and the commentors have a clear way of knowing when to look at the spec to see if they are happy with the new text. Just a suggestion, take it or leave it as you wish, I just find it helps. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [selectors-api] Why no querySelector(All) on DocumentFragments?

2008-03-13 Thread Ian Hickson
by the document. Thus it is possible for an element to match neither * * nor :root. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Re: [selectors-api] Why no querySelector(All) on DocumentFragments?

2008-03-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Webkit is correct. The Selectors spec defines :root as: The :root pseudo-class represents an element that is the root of the document. OK. It wasn't obvious to me whether that was because people hadn't considered

Re: [selectors-api] Why no querySelector(All) on DocumentFragments?

2008-03-14 Thread Ian Hickson
stuff ([#textContent*='...'], [#col=4], [#row2], etc), this, and the various other new ideas that have been suggested since Selectors last had new features suggested. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A

Re: [Bindings] What does typeof return for interface objects?

2008-03-18 Thread Ian Hickson
behaviour of their author's favourite browser, and thus failing on browsers that arbitrarily picked a different behaviour. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible

Re: [Bindings] What does typeof return for interface objects?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Hickson
to define [[Construct]], thus making this vary on a per-interface basis. Requiring that [[Call]] be implemented but not saying what its actual behaviour should be is a bit strange, I think. I agree that that is not an option either. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

RE: What is Microsoft's intent with XDR vis-à-vis W3C? [Was: Re: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

2008-03-26 Thread Ian Hickson
on a technologically superior, safer, and more comprehensive solution that has as much implementation experience and significantly more authoring experience, based on extending existing APIs instead of arbitarily introducing new, incompatible APIs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E

Re: What is Microsoft's intent with XDR vis-à-vis W3C? [Was: Re: IE Team's Proposal for Cross Site Requests]

2008-03-26 Thread Ian Hickson
'. It seems to have the same degree of 'compatibility' as introducing new APIs on the XHR object. The XHR2 proposal isn't a new API. It's the same API for same-domain as cross-domain requests. -- Ian Hickson

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