Re: Intent to implement and ship: HTMLMediaElement.allowedToPlay

2018-07-31 Thread Adam Gashlin
I don't think that Netflix would accept allowedToPlay == false for media which is the whole point of visiting a page. They probably wouldn't even check it then, instead allowing for the possibility that the user will be prompted or that it just won't autoplay if they expressed that preference.

Re: Web Replay landed in Firefox nightly

2018-07-31 Thread Anthony Jones
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 03:38:00 UTC+12, mte9...@gmail.com wrote: > I am waiting a lot this feature but I am a Linux user so I cannot try it. To be clear: this is not a feature, it is a proof of concept. > So I tried to add the flag on Linux and see what happens. > Adding

Re: PSA: xptcall on Tier-3 platforms

2018-07-31 Thread Kris Maglione
This is fantastic news. XPIDL has been stagnant for far too long, given how core a part of our platform it is. As anyone who's had to work with it can attest, it's basically a relic of the coding styles of the late '90s, and doesn't translate well to the practices of our current codebase.

PSA: xptcall on Tier-3 platforms

2018-07-31 Thread Bobby Holley
XPConnect requires some platform-specific code to do its magic [1]. There are around ~28 different copies of this code in xpcom/reflect/xptcall, which makes it very difficult to maintain. Historically, we've handled this by treating xptcall as fixed and working around its deficiencies. Given the

Re: Developer Outreach - Web Platform Research and Recommendations

2018-07-31 Thread James Graham
On 27/07/2018 21:26, Dietrich Ayala wrote: Additionally, much of what we're proposing is based directly on the interviews we had with people in different roles in the development of the web platform. Common themes were: lack of data for making selection/prioritization decisions, visibility of

Re: Intent to implement: Clear-Site-Data header

2018-07-31 Thread Andrea Marchesini
Right, I saw bug 1479519. I'm going to implement some WPTs to cover that part of the spec. On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 6/20/18 9:14 AM, Andrea Marchesini wrote: > >> Do other browser engines implement this? >> Shipped in Chrome 61. >> > > It looks like there is no