[whatwg] HTTP/2 push detection and control in JavaScript

2015-02-20 Thread Brendan Long
Hi, I’m wondering if there is any work in progress to define an API for JavaScript clients to detect that an HTTP/2 server has pushed content, and to control the “half closed” vs “closed” state of HTTP/2 streams (to control whether or not a server can push content). Use Case The use-case I

Re: [whatwg] HTTP/2 push detection and control in JavaScript

2015-02-20 Thread Kornel Lesiński
On 20 Feb 2015, at 10:48, Brendan Long s...@brendanlong.com wrote: The obvious question to ask is “why not just poll the server”? The answer its that live streaming latency depends (among other things) on how quickly you poll. Unless you can perfectly predict when the server will have an

Re: [whatwg] HTTP/2 push detection and control in JavaScript

2015-02-20 Thread Brendan Long
On Feb 20, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net wrote: For server push we already have Server-Sent Events: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#server-sent-events https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#server-sent-events Using an entirely

Re: [whatwg] Obsolete Feature [hgroup]

2015-02-20 Thread Jirka Kosek
On 18.2.2015 0:15, Barry Smith wrote: I have read where the W3C has made the hgroup element obsolete, http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features . I see the specification is still in the WHATWG HTML: The Living Standard specifications. Are there any

Re: [whatwg] Fetch, MSE, and MIX

2015-02-20 Thread Aaron Colwell
Hi Ryan, Thanks for writing this up. I know you already know this, but I wanted to publically declare my support as one of the MSE editors. While I wish we didn't need this, I can understand the concerns of content providers and I think this is a reasonable compromise. Aaron On Thu Feb 19 2015

Re: [whatwg] HTTP/2 push detection and control in JavaScript

2015-02-20 Thread Domenic Denicola
From: whatwg [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Brendan Long It’s not clear to me how we would cancel a pushed stream, or retrieve streaming body data without waiting for the request to completely finish. Working on that: - http://streams.spec.whatwg.org/ -