Re: [whatwg] SharedWorkers and the name parameter

2009-08-17 Thread timeless
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Michael Nordmanmicha...@google.com wrote: Tim Berners-Lee seems to think this could be a valid use of URI references. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fragment.html The significance of the fragment identifier is a function of the MIME type of the object Are

Re: [whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

2009-08-17 Thread Max Romantschuk
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Precision is influenced more strongly by the temporal resolution of the decoding pipeline rather than the polling resolution for currentTime. I doubt the previous implementations of start and end gave you a 3 sample accurate resolution even for wav files. I'll chime in

Re: [whatwg] A tag for measurements / quantity?

2009-08-17 Thread Max Romantschuk
Ian Hickson wrote: I don't really understand the use case here. What problem would this be solving? What do we have to demonstrate that this problem matters? It might well be that there is no problem. From a practical perspective it would be nice to have an ambiguous way to mark up numerical

Re: [whatwg] A tag for measurements / quantity?

2009-08-17 Thread Max Romantschuk
Max Romantschuk wrote: it would be nice to have an ambiguous way to mark up numerical constants Make that an unambiguous way... I seem to have lost my negations today. -- Max Romantschuk m...@romantschuk.fi http://max.romantschuk.fi/

Re: [whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

2009-08-17 Thread Dr. Markus Walther
Hi, I see no reason why they should not be applicable to data URIs when it is obvious that the data URI is a media file. This has not yet been discussed, but would be an obvious use case. OK. That would be welcome - although there could be syntactic problems as where to place fragment

Re: [whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

2009-08-17 Thread Dr. Markus Walther
Max Romantschuk wrote: I'll chime in here, having done extensive work with audio and video codecs. With current codec implementations getting sample- or frame-accurate resolution is largely a pipe dream. (Outside of the realm of platforms dedicated to content production and playback.)

Re: [whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

2009-08-17 Thread Max Romantschuk
Dr. Markus Walther wrote: The much weaker goal I would propose is to support at least one simple lossless audio format in this regard (I am not qualified to comment on the video case). Simple means 'simple to generate, simple to decode', and PCM WAVE meets these requirements, so would be an

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Campbell
Oops. This has been sitting in my outbox for a while, so it's a response to somewhat old messages, but I think it still has some value, especially the examples taken from Philip Taylor's data and elsewhere on the web. On Jul 19, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: Certainly there are

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Campbell
On Aug 16, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Erik Vorhes wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Erik Vorhes wrote: It is often the most semantically appropriate element for marking up a name There is no need to

Re: [whatwg] A tag for measurements / quantity?

2009-08-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Max Romantschukm...@romantschuk.fi wrote: It might well be that there is no problem. From a practical perspective it would be nice to have an ambiguous way to mark up numerical constants in a document and thus allow a straightforward way of doing conversions.

[whatwg] Global Script proposal.

2009-08-17 Thread Dmitry Titov
Dear whatwg, The previous discussion about shared page and persistence has sent us back 'to the drawing board', to think again what is the essence of the feature and what's not important. Talking with web apps developers indicates the most of benefits can be achieved without dangerous background

Re: [whatwg] SharedWorkers and the name parameter

2009-08-17 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Jim Jewettjimjjew...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, SharedWorkers accept both a url parameter and a name parameter - the purpose is to let pages run multiple SharedWorkers using the same script resource without having to load separate resources from the server.

Re: [whatwg] Installed Apps

2009-08-17 Thread Dmitry Titov
After some internal discussions, I've sent a quite updated proposal which includes use cases we've looked at (Global Script). We've got some experience of talking with app developers and it seems having a concept of 'application context' or 'global script' is a recurring theme.. The unwanted

Re: [whatwg] SharedWorkers and the name parameter

2009-08-17 Thread Michael Nordman
What purpose the the 'name' serve? Just seems uncessary to have the notion of 'named' workers. They need to be identified. The url, including the fragment part, could serve that purpse just fine without a seperate 'name'. The 'name' is not enough to identify the worker, url,name is the identifier.

[whatwg] Spec comments, section 4.8

2009-08-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
In 4.8.2.1.9: It's kind of a nitpick, but I don't think this sentence is accurate: Another example of an image that defies full description is a fractal, which, by definition, is infinite in complexity. First of all, we're talking about describing images here, which are presumably projected onto

[whatwg] Proposal to drag virtual file out of browser

2009-08-17 Thread Jian Li
SUMMARY The HTML 5 spec defines the event-based drag-and-drop mechanism that could cross the browser boundary. If a draggable element contains a URL, dragging it out of the browser will only copy the URL value. However, in some scenarios, we really want to download the data file from the

Re: [whatwg] Changing postMessage() to allow sending unentangled ports

2009-08-17 Thread Drew Wilson
Following up on this issue: Currently, the checks specified for MessagePort.postMessage() are different from the checks done in window.postMessage() (as described in section 7.2.4 Posting messages with message ports). In particular, step 4 of section 7.2.4 says: If any of the entries in ports are