Re: Is polyfilling future web APIs a good idea?

2015-08-05 Thread Glen Huang
Thanks for the detailed explanation. The only thing I'm not sure I understand is the pattern you described: ``` HTMLElement.prototype.foo = HTMLElement.prototype._foo; ``` I had this pattern in mind when you talked about prollyfills: ``` HTMLElement.prototype._foo = function() { if

Re: [charter] What is the plan for Streams API?

2015-08-05 Thread Takeshi Yoshino
+domenic We've recently finished the ReadableStream part of the spec and experimenting integration with the Fetch API. Most of the spec is still unstable. I don't have bandwidth to maintain W3C version of the spec even briefly currently... Takeshi On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Arthur Barstow

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-05 Thread MOHAN ARUN
Would implementors want to support (writing stuff to the clipboard)? Actually, no - The Simpsons already did it. Lets not think about windows clipboard. Those are Windows. We are browser. I feel clipboard is something that contains copy of contenteditable items of the same web page. We seem to

Re: Is polyfilling future web APIs a good idea?

2015-08-05 Thread MOHAN ARUN
Do polyfills like WebReflection's DOM4 look promising? No. Lets choose to not spoil a text-based markup language by trying to emulate geometry. etc. There are other tools for geometry. HTML not suited for geometry. 'I feel it's more sustainable to bet on spec APIs.' No. I prefer lets Focus on