Re: [whatwg] Directory upload via input type=file directory

2010-04-28 Thread John Gregg
Also, I do believe the ability to upload a whole directory is important for some good use-cases, e.g. upload a directory of photos to a photo site while maintaing directory structure. I can't really say that I can think of any very urgent use cases for this. However only a minor tweak to

Re: [whatwg] Directory upload via input type=file directory

2010-04-22 Thread John Gregg
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:15 PM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: So are you suggesting an input element that accepts directories dragged onto it, but has no way of choosing a directory through a system dialog?  -John On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org wrote

Re: [whatwg] Directory upload via input type=file directory

2010-04-06 Thread John Gregg
shown to users? How will it be clear to users when they can do one or the other? Ojan On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: For context, Ian Fette started a thread about uploading directories of files in December: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg

Re: [whatwg] Directory upload via input type=file directory

2010-04-06 Thread John Gregg
. Is it just the leaf name conflict issue? I agree that's a problem, but maybe there's a different solution to that? Ojan On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:53 PM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: That's a fair question, but how is it clear today whether an input can accept multiple files vs. a single

[whatwg] Directory upload via input type=file directory

2010-04-01 Thread John Gregg
For context, Ian Fette started a thread about uploading directories of files in December: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/024455.html At that time, it was thought that directory upload could be implemented by a UA in response to a input type=file multiple tag

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread John Gregg
The Webapps WG is working on a spec for a Web Notification API. You can see the current draft at http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/, and I would suggest sending comments to the public-webapps mailing list. That spec attempts to address the icon+title+text use case, and

Re: [whatwg] Notification API

2010-02-03 Thread John Gregg
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, John Gregg john...@google.com wrote: The Webapps WG is working on a spec for a Web Notification API. You can see the current draft at http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-08-10 Thread John Gregg
TO SUMMARIZE: -There are many other existing ways to notify -I'd suggest browsers have a Notification process with which open tabs register. -Registered open tabs could tell the browser to pop up a notification, perhaps with title text, body text, and image -Clicking the notification would

[whatwg] Notifications UI for Persistent Workers

2009-03-31 Thread John Gregg
Hi WHATWG, There have been discussions in the past about building notifications (toasts) as a way for workers, especially persistent workers, to have a form of UI. It's not spec'd in HTML5 at the moment, but I'm currently working on an implementation in Chromium and wanted to get broader