Re: New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 11/10/14, 12:45 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: FWIW, it is perfectly reasonable for us to admit that we as a platform aim to always be years behind other platforms. But then we should make this clear and communicate it to

Re: New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Brendan Eich bren...@secure.meer.net wrote: Right. Didn't we have a problem with Canvas's string-based getContext already? http://robert.ocallahan.org/2012/05/canvas-getcontext-mistake.html Domenic's question still needs addressing separately, but just a

RfC: WebAppSec's Last Call Working Draft of Mixed Content; deadline December 11

2014-11-10 Thread Arthur Barstow
[ Bcc: public-review-announce ] All, This is a Request for Comments for the November 13 Last Call Working Draft of WebAppSec's Mixed Content specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-mixed-content-20141113/ Please see in particular the spec's Modifications to WebSockets section

Re: New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-10 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Domenic Denicola d...@domenic.me wrote: From: Dimitri Glazkov [mailto:dglaz...@google.com] It's still not clear to me what the advantage is of creating a framework for designing proprietary APIs. If we don't do something like this as a platform, we'd be

Re: New approach to activities/intents

2014-11-10 Thread Brendan Eich
Dimitri Glazkov wrote: Domenic's question still needs addressing separately, but just a quick response here -- the API roc described there is different. Tubes are just like talking to a worker or any MessagePort. There is no extra API surface emerging from getContext-like function call. Any

Re: RfC: WebAppSec's Last Call Working Draft of Mixed Content; deadline December 11

2014-11-10 Thread Mike West
-Brad's PayPal address (which probably bounces now), +Brad's other address. Thanks for widening the audience! On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@gmail.com wrote: Brad, Mike - other than the Modifications to WebSockets section, if there are any other specific