Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: I think this would fall over more often than not. Most developers

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-23 Thread Gavin Sharp
What does it mean to save your complex web app for later viewing? I don't think there's a lot of overlap between sites that would use the functionality roc is proposing, and sites that make sense to save for later viewing. Gavin On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's very important that whatever applies the animations is run on the same thread that handles input. Otherwise it's very easy for animations to get out-of-sync.

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Ms2ger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2015 09:12 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Julien Wajsberg jwajsb...@mozilla.com wrote: Le 20/02/2015 04:25, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread James Long
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's very important that whatever applies the animations is run on the same thread that

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Julien Wajsberg
Le 20/02/2015 04:25, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making all of the DOM APIs asynchronous. That's what Servo needs anyway. That's a step in the right

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Julien Wajsberg jwajsb...@mozilla.com wrote: Le 20/02/2015 04:25, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making all of the DOM APIs

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread James Long
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making all of the DOM APIs asynchronous. That's what Servo needs anyway.

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread James Long
I'm not heavily involved in platform work, so take my input as a somewhat naïve outsider. I've been tracking this kind of stuff very closely, especially after I got to play with react native. The place where this is most important is mobile, and I don't think #2 is going to cut it. It's not just

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread James Long
Sorry, I may have missed the last part of your email where you say that you could provide touch positions as input too. This would be neat research and I'd like to see more details. Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's very important that whatever applies the

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-19 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long longs...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making all of the DOM APIs asynchronous. That's what Servo needs anyway. That's a step in the right direction for #3, and we can see much more we can