Re: [whatwg] localStorage + worker processes

2009-03-28 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Michael Nordman micha...@google.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I do think it would be great if workers had access to some type of structured storage. However I agree

Re: [whatwg] Worker feedback

2009-03-28 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Robert O'Callahan wrote: Now, with the storage mutex, are there any cases you know of where serializability fails? If there are, it may be worth noting them in the spec. If there aren't, why not simply write serializability

Re: [whatwg] video and acceleration

2009-03-28 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: What is the recommended way to handle the video tag on such hardware? There are two obvious solutions: 0. Implement the spec, and just let it be really slow. 1. Attempt to approximate the correct behavior,

Re: [whatwg] Worker feedback

2009-03-28 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
On 28.03.2009, at 4:23, Ian Hickson wrote: I think, given text/css, text/html, and text/xml all have character encoding declarations inline, transcoding is not going to work in practice. I think the better solution would be to remove the rules that make text/* an issue in the standards

Re: [whatwg] Worker feedback

2009-03-28 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Scripts, and worker scripts in particular, should use application media type; using text/javascript is obsolete. [RFC4329#3]. Chris

Re: [whatwg] Canvas - toTempURL - A dangerous proposal

2009-03-28 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
IFRAME where SRC=javascript:... has the same disk full problem as Canvas.toTempURL, and a DOS attack can also be launched simply by creating a large array that will fill the hard drive with virtual memory. In general, handling OOM conditions is not covered by the specification. Chris

Re: [whatwg] Canvas Shadows - Unnecessary Barrier to Entry

2009-03-28 Thread Philip Taylor
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: [...] We've been working on Javascript / Canvas projects for two years now. We're in the process of releasing full implementations targeting the Common Runtime Language, Java AWT, ActionScript and DCOM. I'm sure you

Re: [whatwg] URL decomposition on HTMLAnchorElement interface

2009-03-28 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:53:48 -0400, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Kartikaya Gupta wrote: The empty string falls under the anything else case in my suggestion above and would work as you expect. Null and empty string should, imo, have the same behavior here. It doesn't make

Re: [whatwg] URL decomposition on HTMLAnchorElement interface

2009-03-28 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Kartikaya Gupta wrote: Do you agree that null and empty string should behave differently for search and hash? No, not really. Are they treated differently in current UAs (past null being treated as null, possibly)? To me, it doesn't make sense to treat null and the empty string

Re: [whatwg] URL decomposition on HTMLAnchorElement interface

2009-03-28 Thread João Eiras
Interestingly, it looks like Opera doesn't support the hostname setter at all. Safari ignores the call in this case. I don't have IE to test offhand. True. Opera currently does not support setting these values separately.