On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote:
A while back there have been some requests from developers (seconded
by those working on GitHub) to have an API to indicate whether a site
is busy with one thing or another (e.g. networking).
They'd like to use this to
On 7/13/15 10:36, smaug wrote:
On 07/13/2015 01:50 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
Obligatory: Will this be restricted to secure contexts?
But given that web pages can already achieve something like this using
document.open()/close(), at least on Gecko, perhaps exposing the API
to
On 07/13/2015 01:50 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote:
A while back there have been some requests from developers (seconded
by those working on GitHub) to have an API to indicate whether a site
is busy with one thing or another
Jonas Sicking wrote:
window.navigator.addBusyTask(promise);
would be great. The API can be called any time and any number of
times. The API would run the spinner until all provided promises are
resolved. So if it's called twice with different promises, the spinner
doesn't stop when one of
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mike Connor mcon...@mozilla.com wrote:
Anne, I assume the point is not to draw attention to background tabs. There
are much more useful ways to do that, if they're going to ask for a new
API/UI. Instead, my read is that they're looking for a hopefully-not-janky
On 06/07/2015 03:22 , Mike Connor wrote:
Does it need to be an API, or would dispatching an event be sufficient?
Something like busy and idle events would be easy to send from JS, and
UAs would be free to honour or ignore based on context.
On the face of it it's certainly useful: writing your
I think an API like:
window.navigator.addBusyTask(promise);
would be great. The API can be called any time and any number of
times. The API would run the spinner until all provided promises are
resolved. So if it's called twice with different promises, the spinner
doesn't stop when one of the
A while back there have been some requests from developers (seconded
by those working on GitHub) to have an API to indicate whether a site
is busy with one thing or another (e.g. networking).
They'd like to use this to avoid having to create their own UI. In
Firefox this could manifest itself by
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:21 PM, fantasai fantasai.li...@inkedblade.net wrote:
On 07/05/2015 11:11 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
A while back there have been some requests from developers (seconded
by those working on GitHub) to have an API to indicate whether a site
is busy with one thing or
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote:
Is there a reason we shouldn't expose a hook for this?
On the one hand, this seems really useful. On the other hand, I'm
pretty worried about the UX implications here. I wouldn't want a dozen
flashing/spinning/moving
On 07/05/2015 11:11 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
A while back there have been some requests from developers (seconded
by those working on GitHub) to have an API to indicate whether a site
is busy with one thing or another (e.g. networking).
They'd like to use this to avoid having to create
On 07/05/2015 06:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
A while back there have been some requests from developers (seconded
by those working on GitHub) to have an API to indicate whether a site
is busy with one thing or another (e.g. networking).
They'd like to use this to avoid having to create
On 5 July 2015 at 11:53, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote:
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl
wrote:
Is there a reason we shouldn't expose a hook for this?
On the one hand, this seems really useful. On the other hand, I'm
pretty worried about the UX
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