Personally, I think TypedArrays are too closely tied to WebGL -- as they
become part of JS and not just tied to WebGL (for example, IE10 will
support TypedArrays but not WebGL), they are going to be used for other
things. For example, reading/writing binary file formats or exchanging
wire
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote:
And for all realistic purposes, the world has standardized on
little-endian.
Other than network protocols, which are all big-endian.
--
John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote:
The result was increased polymorphism at call sites, which defeated the
Java VM's
optimizing compiler and led to 10x slowdowns in many common
situations.
FWIW, I think this has no bearing at all on JS.
Check out this
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote:
Maybe I misunderstood what he was referring to; I was thinking about the
comparative cost of making, say, a C++ function virtual (added dispatch
cost). It wouldn't make calls to functions any more polymorphic--you
already
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Kenneth Russell k...@google.com wrote:
The rationale for specifying the string encoding and decoding
functionality outside the typed array specification is to keep the
typed array spec small and easily implementable. The indexed property
getters and setters on
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote:
Using Views instead of specifying the offset and length sounds good.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
- What's the use case for supporting anything but UTF-8?
Other Unicode encodings
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Ilya Sherman isher...@chromium.org wrote:
Maybe some of the supported keywords could be dropped (e.g. those that
are
not recommended to use). Since there's no legacy yet, we can reject bad
keywords completely and only support the best practice keywords.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, John Tamplin wrote:
The entire web application, which includes both client and
server-side code, must have the same idea about what locale the user
is using. If the app provides a drop-down
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Dennis Joachimsthaler den...@efjot.dewrote:
Am 02.08.2011, 13:12 Uhr, schrieb Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com
If users cannot trust their userscripts and addons (provided they can do
unsafe things) they have lost already.
True. We do not make standards
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote:
Isn't the obvious solution to both problems to apply compression before
masking?
Yes. However, that is not what deflate-stream does. There has been a
proposal for deflate-frame which would do exactly that, but it has not
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fiwrote:
I think the main problem is triggering the decimal separator mode (or
the order of numeric day and month for that matter) on the UI locale
rather than the locale of the page,
Well that's certainly at least _one_ of
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fiwrote:
Well, HTML(5) is not just about client-server applications. It’s also about
offline applications and about the bulk of web and intranet content that
cannot be characterized as “applications” in any significant meaning.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoe...@gmx.net wrote:
Yes, but it's a long way from there to saying that parsing must be a-
voided because parsing is inherently slow. As it becomes more common to
load very large libraries where you don't actually use most things, or
use
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoe...@gmx.net wrote:
While I am sure that people here have done far more extensive research
than what we've heard so far, this is Ian Hickson's mailing list and as
I recall, he puts great emphasis on research and the proceedings being
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote:
I thought the case being addressed here is fetching scripts early but not
compiling or evaluating them until the app knows the functionality provided
the script is going to be needed. The degradation story depends on the
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote:
Is there a specific problem with letting Web Workers handle this use case?
They should not interfere with the UI thread.
I'm not really the one to answer and I don't know the details of the problem
or solution, I was
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote:
They have a way to download and execute scripts. So if the UI thread has a
minimal script that takes care of creation of workers and creates a tunnel
for DOM modifications you could theoretically be all set. (I have not
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
Here's the thing. Parsing is a black-box behavior. Nothing says a browser
needs to do it right before execution, that it needs to happen on the main
thread, or that it's happening at all.
For example, for Gecko we have
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
You don't need to be more efficient to avoid freezing the UI. You just
have to not do the parsing work in a single shot on the main thread. You can
either break it up (cooperative multitasking, effectively), or put it on a
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Belshe m...@belshe.com wrote:
FYI: SCTP is effectively non-deployable on the internet today due to NAT.
+1 on finding ways to enable UDP. It's a key missing component to the web
platform.
But there is so much infrastructure that would have to be
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Simon Pieters sim...@opera.com wrote:
From our testing it seems that Vista has a limit of 1398 open sockets.
Apparently Ubuntu has a limit of 1024 file descriptors per process.
On Linux, that is just the default (which may vary between distros) and can
be
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Perry Smith pedz...@gmail.com wrote:
[[
Note: There is no limit to the number of established WebSocket
connections
a user agent can have with a single remote host. Servers can refuse to
connect users with an excessive number of connections, or disconnect
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:43 AM, J Ross Nicoll j...@jrn.me.uk wrote:
Looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-FileAPI-20091117/#dfn-file
There doesn't appear to be anyway of retrieving creation date, modification
date or size of the file. Could I suggest adding attributes creationDate,
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
silviapfeiff...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Eoin Kilfeather ekilfeat...@dmc.dit.ie
wrote:
I was wondering if any though had been given to a consistant way of
dealing with stereoscopic displays. A use case has come up in a
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