Re: [whatwg] Notifications: usage feedback

2013-10-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:15 AM, James Burke jrbu...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Ability to pass data with the Notification Right now, we URL-encode some args to the iconURL to pass data to the handler function that is registered via navigator.mozSetMessageHandler('notification', function(){}) [1].

Re: [whatwg] Canvas in workers

2013-10-14 Thread Kenneth Russell
Would you mind looking at the proposal http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasInWorkers and commenting on it? This was arrived at after extensive discussions with the Google Maps team, and addresses their key use cases. Compared to the one below, it solves the following problems: 1) Rendering from a

Re: [whatwg] IRC and WWW integration proposal

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Gryllida wrote: Usecase 1: I search for python and see a link to their website in search results, and the search engine looks up both title and IRC info - so I see webpage title, and a link to its irc network or channel. There's nothing stopping search engines today from

Re: [whatwg] HTTP Forms extension specification

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Cameron Jones wrote: http://cameronjones.github.com/form-http-extensions/index.html On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Cameron Jones wrote: The motivations are the same which support declarative over imperative programming, access to the HTTP protocol methods and headers (ETags,

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments

2013-10-14 Thread Simon Pieters
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:52:49 +0200, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: You'd actually write CSS.escape, so that's basically the longer, different name. Is that sufficient? I don't want to bikeshed over this, but I was thinking of perhaps serializeIdent(), or escapeIdent(). The API is

Re: [whatwg] Canvas in workers

2013-10-14 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Kenneth Russell k...@google.com wrote: Would you mind looking at the proposal http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasInWorkers and commenting on it? Sure. Kyle and I looked at it while we were working on our proposal. The main issues I have with it are that

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Locale Preferences API

2013-10-14 Thread Marcos Caceres
Ping? Mozilla would like to know if anyone else is interested or specially if people are NOT interested. We would like to implement this and expose it on the platform. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780953 On Friday, July 26, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote:

Re: [whatwg] Supporting scanners on the web

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: One of the use cases that has come up for why people are still using plugins is supporting scanning to the web, in particular multi-page scanning. It seems to me that we could hook this up to input type=file multiple, but that we should try to

[whatwg] Feature requests that I've converted to bugs II

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
Over the years I've collected a number of threads on this list that were requesting features (as opposed to reporting bugs), and which lacked immediate interest from more than one browser vendor. I collected a bunch of them and filed bugs for them back in July:

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Locale Preferences API

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Marcos Caceres wrote: Ping? Mozilla would like to know if anyone else is interested or specially if people are NOT interested. We would like to implement this and expose it on the platform. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780953 I was just

Re: [whatwg] Supporting scanners on the web

2013-10-14 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: For now I intend to focus on implementing the scanning UI in the browser and just handing the site the final product. Any thoughts of exposing a fine-grained control over previews

[whatwg] Behavior of anchor element when wrapping floated images

2013-10-14 Thread Bruno Racineux
I've ran into the following layout issue while using the accessibility audit extension on Chrome. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tools/issues/64 In brief, there is an accessibility issue with floated images within an anchor element, which is present on the web on a

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments

2013-10-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Leaving aside the issue that CSS-escape is more than one operation depending on what kind of token you're creating, My understanding is that you can do both of them, at least for selector-related escaping, so the author doesn't

Re: [whatwg] Supporting scanners on the web

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: For now I intend to focus on implementing the scanning UI in the browser and just handing the site the final product. Any thoughts of

Re: [whatwg] Supporting scanners on the web

2013-10-14 Thread Rick Waldron
Does providing a means to scan-to-the-web make web developers a new group for patent trolls to target? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/scanning-documents-patent-trolls-want-you-pay Rick On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking

Re: [whatwg] Supporting scanners on the web

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Rick Waldron wrote: Does providing a means to scan-to-the-web make web developers a new group for patent trolls to target? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/scanning-documents-patent-trolls-want-you-pay Only your own legal counsel can determine that for you. -- Ian