[whatwg] Proposal: JavaScript stack traces

2009-06-12 Thread Jordan Osete
Hi. I've wondered for some time if it weren't possible to harmonize stack traces across browsers. * What is the problem you are trying to solve? * If you want a traceback, you need to cater for multiple browsers behaviours, and different and incomplete information. * What is the feature you

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: JavaScript stack traces

2009-06-12 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
The ability to extract stack trace information from an exception is a script language feature; it has nothing to do with HTML. Chris

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: JavaScript stack traces

2009-06-12 Thread Patrick Mueller
Jordan Osete wrote: Hi. I've wondered for some time if it weren't possible to harmonize stack traces across browsers. ... Personally, I don't feel like this sort of functionality belongs in an HTML spec, but more in a JavaScript spec. I posted a message to the es-discuss list this week

[whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Shaver
Apologies for the poor threading, I wasn't subscribed when the message here was sent. In http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020237.html Chris DiBona wrote: The incredibly sucky outcome is that Chrome ships patent-encumbered open web features, just like Apple. That

Re: [whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: I still think that we need a better I have some externally-derived pixel data I'd like to just stick in this canvas API here. fillRect() has terrible performance characteristics (as has been brought up many times before), and the current imagedata

Re: [whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Ian Hickson wrote: 2) The description of putImageData says it Paints the data from the given ImageData object onto the canvas. It may be worth specifying that this uses the SOURCE operator, though this is clear later on when defining what the method _really_ does. That's the

Re: [whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: I still think that we need a better I have some externally-derived pixel data I'd like to just stick in this canvas API here. fillRect() has terrible performance characteristics (as has been brought up many times before), and the

Re: [whatwg] [html5] r3151 - [] (0) Try to make the magic margin collapsing rule more accurate.

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:36:25 +0200, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: Is this something that's really needed for web compatibility though? Probably not. Creating a DOM with multiple bodys is hard since the parser will never output such a

Re: [whatwg] document.contentType

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: Regardless of any decision on whether my recommendation for document.contentType to be standardized and made settable on a document created by createDocument() (rather than needing to call the less-than-intuitive doc.open() fix for HTML), I'd still

Re: [whatwg] Something better than DOM_QUOTA_ERROR when LocalStorage is immutable?

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote: When in private browsing mode, WebKit should not write any data to the hard drive. In addition, WebKit does not allow changes to localStorage that aren't going to be written to disk. Currently, it returns a DOM_QUOTA_ERROR on setItem when private

Re: [whatwg] Nested optgroups

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Markus Ernst wrote: I found a message in the list archives from July 2004, where Ian announced to put nested optgroups back into the spec: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-July/001200.html

Re: [whatwg] Pre-Last Call Comments

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Andrew W. Hagen wrote: In current-work, section 4.6.6, there is this explanation of the small element: Small print is typically legalese describing disclaimers, caveats, legal restrictions, or copyrights. Small print is also sometimes used for attribution. This

Re: [whatwg] A few comments on the keygen tag

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I agree, keygen seems like a poor design. That's one of the reasons I didn't extend it in HTML5; we're just defining what it does in browsers so that new browsers can implement it