Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Decentralized Identifier (DID) Working Group

2019-08-29 Thread L. David Baron
I think the reason not to formally object is that it leads to expenditure of both effort and political capital in a way that seems unlikely to change the result. It's an expenditure of effort because the goal is that the AC operate by consensus, so the initial result of formal objections is always

Re: Intent to unship AppCache

2019-08-29 Thread Jonathan Kingston
I spoke to some folks who work on Chrome and they suggested because of their larger usage numbers there wasn't a concrete timeline that they were working towards, however they think there is an active plan to exchange appcache for service worker on some Google products they have which will aid in i

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Decentralized Identifier (DID) Working Group

2019-08-29 Thread Eric Rescorla
I tend to agree with you. Is there a reason not to formally object? On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:30 PM L. David Baron wrote: > The W3C is proposing a new charter for: > > Decentralized Identifier (DID) Working Group > https://www.w3.org/2019/08/did-wg-charter.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archi

Re: [C++] Intent to eliminate: `using namespace std; ` at global scope

2019-08-29 Thread Eric Rescorla
+1. This::sounds::like::a::great::change. -Ekr On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:13 PM Nathan Froyd wrote: > Hi all, > > In working on upgrading our C++ support to C++17 [1], we've run into > some issues [2] surrounding the newly-introduced `std::byte` [3], > various Microsoft headers that pull in de

Re: [ Intent to Change ] Enabling the Triage Lead role to see security bugs in their component

2019-08-29 Thread Andrew Overholt
๐Ÿ‘ Thank you! On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Emma Humphries wrote: > When work on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417229 is > completed and the patch deployed to Bugzilla, users who are a Triage Owner > will be able to see security bugs in their components without needing > members

[C++] Intent to eliminate: `using namespace std;` at global scope

2019-08-29 Thread Nathan Froyd
Hi all, In working on upgrading our C++ support to C++17 [1], we've run into some issues [2] surrounding the newly-introduced `std::byte` [3], various Microsoft headers that pull in definitions of `byte`, and conflicts between the two when one has done `using namespace std;`, particularly at globa

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Timed Text (TT) Working Group

2019-08-29 Thread Adam Roach
Most of the deltas range from editorial to general good hygiene. The only changes of any real consequence that I see are: * Updating their previous work to new versions * Charter item to work on a profile of TTML2 to support audio-only use cases * Catch-all clause at the bottom of ยง2.1 tha

Re: Intent to prototype: re-enabling SharedArrayBuffer

2019-08-29 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:30 PM J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 12:48, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Note that SharedArrayBuffer itself is already enabled by default as >> ECMAScript (JavaScript) was never changed. And that standard requires >> a host to allow cross-thread usage as

Re: Intent to prototype: re-enabling SharedArrayBuffer

2019-08-29 Thread J. Ryan Stinnett
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 12:48, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Note that SharedArrayBuffer itself is already enabled by default as > ECMAScript (JavaScript) was never changed. And that standard requires > a host to allow cross-thread usage as while it describes > infrastructure for threads (agents) it d

Intent to prototype: re-enabling SharedArrayBuffer

2019-08-29 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Summary: SharedArrayBuffer (SAB) is a feature that allows high-performance applications using shared-memory multi-threading to run on the web. Shortly after releasing SAB, Firefox (and other browsers) disabled SAB as part of our initial Spectre mitigations (see https://blog.mozilla.org/security/201

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Timed Text (TT) Working Group

2019-08-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:41 AM L. David Baron wrote: > > The W3C is proposing a revised charter for: > > Timed Text (TT) Working Group > https://www.w3.org/2019/08/ttwg-proposed-charter.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2019Aug/0004.html > > The comparison to the g