Re: [whatwg] size limits on web databases

2009-08-29 Thread Rob Kroeger
Hi, On Saturday, August 29, 2009, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Rob Kroeger wrote: From http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/: The openDatabase() method on the Window and WorkerUtils interfaces must return a newly constructed Database object that represents the

Re: [whatwg] Element content models

2009-08-29 Thread Schuyler Duveen
There is a use case for hierarchical progress elements: e.g. multiple file uploads (or multiple phases). Consider the following example: progress id=p max=17 value=5 data-units=MB progress id=current-file-progress max=21/progress /progress could be displayed something like this: style div

[whatwg] The removal of datalist

2009-08-29 Thread tali garsiel
Hi, Will this element come back? From my experience web applications always contains: 1. A tree control 2. A sortable data grid with a data provider All js libraries like dojo , ext js etc have this elements(and of course all libraries like swing). If such a basic GUI element will not be

Re: [whatwg] Global Script proposal.

2009-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Dmitry Titov wrote: Currently there is no mechanism to directly share DOM, code and data on the same ui thread across several pages of the web application. Multi-page applications and the sites that navigate from page to page would benefit from having access to a

[whatwg] Storage mutex feedback

2009-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote: First of all, I was wondering why all user prompts are specified as must release the storage mutex ( http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#user-prompts). This is because otherwise, if the script has the storage mutex, the user can't open any

Re: [whatwg] Storage mutex

2009-08-29 Thread Mike Shaver
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jeremy Orlowjor...@chromium.org wrote: Can a plugin ever call into a script while a script is running besides when the script is making a synchronous call to the plugin?  If so, that worries me since it'd be a way for the script to lose its lock at _any_ time.

Re: [whatwg] Text areas with pattern attributes?

2009-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Alex Vincent wrote: I'm drifting into writing code for the pattern attribute on text fields again, and I wondered:� if text inputs can have pattern attribute for regular expression matching, why not text area elements? Lack of compelling use cases. On Wed, 19 Aug

Re: [whatwg] Web Encodings

2009-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Today every browser implements their own encoding label matching algorithm, supports their own list of encodings, their own list of encoding label aliases, and everything sort of works, but not really. HTML5 solves part of this problem by

Re: [whatwg] Text areas with pattern attributes?

2009-08-29 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Mike Shaver wrote: It's also pretty common to enter multiple email addresses or tracking numbers or URLs one-per-line for batch operations on sites, and they would benefit from having client-side validation

Re: [whatwg] Text areas with pattern attributes?

2009-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Mike Shaver wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Mike Shaver wrote: It's also pretty common to enter multiple email addresses or tracking numbers or URLs one-per-line for batch operations on sites, and they