Re: publishing new WD of URL spec

2014-09-10 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: WHATWG specs are not legitimate for reference by W3C specs. Do you have a citation to back up this claim? Their IPR status is indeterminate and they do not follow a consensus process. Do you have citations for where

Re: publishing new WD of URL spec

2014-09-10 Thread James Robinson
(public-webapps and www-tag to bcc, +cc public-w3cproc...@w3.org. sorry about the earlier mistake) On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:27 AM, James Robinson jam...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Glenn Adams gl

Re: Objection to publishing DOM Parsing and Serialization (was Re: CfC: publish LCWD of DOM Parsing and Serialization; deadline December 3)

2013-12-06 Thread James Robinson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.comwrote: Even worse is the removal of the reference to the source specification, given that you know that this is a contentious subject in this WG. Both Travis and I supported keeping that information in the boilerplate.

Re: [ambient light events LC] Feedback ( LC-2736)

2013-01-17 Thread James Robinson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:15 AM, frederick.hir...@nokia.com wrote: Dear Tab Atkins Jr. , The Device APIs Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Ambient

Re: CfC: publish WD of XHR; deadline November 29

2012-12-01 Thread James Robinson
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Ms2ger ms2...@gmail.com wrote: I object to this

Re: Scheduling multiple types of end-of-(micro)task work

2012-10-18 Thread James Robinson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:34 PM, James Robinson jam...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alan Stearns stea...@adobe.com wrote: On 10/18/12 2:51 PM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 10/19

Re: DOM3 Events - additional editing help to move the spec forward

2012-05-29 Thread James Robinson
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga garai...@deusto.es wrote: Hello, on Fri, 25 May 2012 16:49:25 -0700 Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: This is not yet an official last call, but if you'd like to re-read the spec and provide additional feedback--this is

Re: IndexedDB: Binary Keys

2012-05-21 Thread James Robinson
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Joran Greef jo...@ronomon.com wrote: IndexedDB supports binary values as per the structured clone algorithm as implemented in Chrome and Firefox. IndexedDB needs to support binary keys (ArrayBuffer, TypedArrays). Many popular KV stores accept binary keys

Re: exposing CANVAS or something like it to Web Workers

2012-05-14 Thread James Robinson
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 5/14/12 7:56 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: A tricky bit: you need to know which element to sync to, so the browser knows which monitor's vsync to use. According to [1] only WebKit's requestAnimationFrame actually takes an

Re: [IndexedDB] Numeric constants vs enumerated strings

2012-02-27 Thread James Robinson
Also note that however painful an API change may seem now, it will only get more painful the longer it is put off. - James On Feb 27, 2012 7:50 AM, Odin Hørthe Omdal odi...@opera.com wrote: I agree on the values. +1 -- Sent from my N9, excuse the top posting On 27.02.12 16:17 Jonas Sicking

Re: String to ArrayBuffer

2012-01-11 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: Currently, we can asynchronously use BlobBuilder with FileReader to get an array buffer from a string. We can of course, use code to convert String.fromCharCode into a Uint8Array, but it's ugly. The StringEncoding

Re: XPath and find/findAll methods

2011-11-21 Thread James Robinson
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Martin Kadlec bs-ha...@myopera.comwrote: Hello everyone, I've noticed that the find/findAll methods are currently being discussed and there is one thing that might be a good idea to consider. Currently, it's quite uncomfortable to use XPath in javascript.

Re: Question about implementing DataTransfer.addElement

2011-10-07 Thread James Robinson
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Daniel Cheng dch...@chromium.org wrote: For technical reasons, animating the drag image is non-trivial and not likely to be implemented in the near future, if it is ever implemented.

Re: [websockets] Making optional extensions mandatory in the API (was RE: Getting WebSockets API to Last Call)

2011-07-27 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.comwrote: We are talking about it at IETF81 this week. That said, I think either way browsers should not require deflate-stream. I am hoping we can make forward progress on deflate-application-data (

Re: [websockets] Making optional extensions mandatory in the API (was RE: Getting WebSockets API to Last Call)

2011-07-27 Thread James Robinson
protocol. That said, I think a lot of people would be happier if deflate-stream were an independent document as opposed to being the only extension included in the core specification as a known extension. -Ian 2011/7/27 James Robinson jam...@google.com On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Fette

Re: Mutation events replacement

2011-07-06 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 07/06/2011 08:14 AM, James Robinson wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org mailto:o...@chromium.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org

Re: Mutation events replacement

2011-07-06 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:14 AM, James Robinson jam...@google.com wrote: No browser updates the rendering after invoking every single task, but I'm pretty sure that no modern browser updates the rendering at any

Re: Mutation events replacement

2011-07-05 Thread James Robinson
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Rafael Weinstein rafa...@google.comwrote: It seems like these are rarified enough cases that visual artifacts are

Re: Mutation events replacement

2011-06-30 Thread James Robinson
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:15 PM, David Flanagan dflana...@mozilla.comwrote: This is actually a pretty hard problem to solve, and still wouldn't really solve the performance issues for DOM events Still better than current DOM Mutation event, though right? Are you saying that synchronous

Re: RfC: moving Web Storage to WG Note; deadline June 29

2011-06-22 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Note that there are currently major browsers that do not follow the spec as currently written and have explicitly said that they have no plans

Re: [Bug 12111] New: spec for Storage object getItem(key) method does not match implementation behavior

2011-06-16 Thread James Robinson
That text requires the storage mutex, which has not and will not be implemented by any vendors, let alone 2 interoperable implementations, so it seems rather doomed. - James On Jun 16, 2011 8:58 AM, Philippe Le Hegaret p...@w3.org wrote: Art wrote: All - given that addressing 12111 is a low

Re: [Bug 12111] New: spec for Storage object getItem(key) method does not match implementation behavior

2011-06-11 Thread James Robinson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.comwrote: On Jun/10/2011 3:05 PM, ext Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Arthur Barstow wrote: My take on the comments is that most commentors prefer the spec to be changed as PLH suggested in comment #5:

Re: Request for feedback: DOMCrypt API proposal - random number generation

2011-06-06 Thread James Robinson
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: ** Sure, that would be much more efficient. And I agree with others on that thread that the API should be non-blocking, non-failing, i.e. akin to Linux /dev/urandom. But my more important point was the second API:

Re: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest and events

2011-05-13 Thread James Robinson
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fiwrote: On 05/13/2011 11:39 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boris Zbarskybzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 5/13/11 4:07 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: It *does* however call for a readystatechange event to be

Re: ISSUE-173 (ericu): terminal FileWriter progress events should be queued [File API: Writer]

2010-12-10 Thread James Robinson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Eric Uhrhane er...@google.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:24:38 +0100, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker sysbot+trac...@w3.org sysbot%2btrac...@w3.org wrote:

Re: [XHR2] responseType / response / overrideMimeType proposal

2010-11-29 Thread James Robinson
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: Before I write it out it would be nice to assess whether there is consensus on this. From the current draft, asBlob, responseBlob, and responseArrayBuffer are removed. response and responseType are added. responseType

Re: requestAnimationFrame

2010-11-17 Thread James Robinson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 11/17/10 5:22 PM, Gregg Tavares (wrk) wrote: Think about this some more. the point if the previous suggestion is that updating keeping a JS animation in sync with a CSS animation has nothing to do with painting or

Re: XHR responseArrayBuffer attribute: suggestion to replace asBlob with responseType

2010-11-02 Thread James Robinson
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, David Flanagan da...@davidflanagan.comwrote: Is this a fair summary of this thread? Chris (Apple) worries that having to support both responseText and responseArrayBuffer will be memory inefficient because implementations will end up with both representations

Re: XHR responseArrayBuffer attribute: suggestion to replace asBlob with responseType

2010-10-28 Thread James Robinson
I think a good rule for any web API is that the user's needs come before the author's needs. In this case there is a very large amount of content out there today that uses XMLHttpRequest to download data, sometimes significant amounts of data, and that use .responseText exclusively to access that

Re: XHR responseArrayBuffer attribute: suggestion to replace asBlob with responseType

2010-10-28 Thread James Robinson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 10/28/10 9:11 PM, James Robinson wrote: I think a good rule for any web API is that the user's needs come before the author's needs. And the author's before the implementor's, right? OK, let's take that as given

[XHR2] overrideMimeType behavior

2010-10-05 Thread James Robinson
One issue raised briefly when discussing ArrayBuffer integration but not resolved was how to handle overrideMimeType(). The issue is whether calling overrideMimeType() can cause already downloaded data to be re-interpreted with a different charset. From my reading of the spec, this is the case.

Re: [XHR2] ArrayBuffer integration

2010-09-28 Thread James Robinson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 9/28/10 10:32 AM, Chris Marrin wrote: I'd hate the idea of another flag in XHR. Why not just keep the raw bits and then convert when responseText is called? The only disadvantage of this is when the author makes

Re: FileReader question about ProgressEvent

2010-04-26 Thread James Robinson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Jian Li jia...@chromium.org wrote: According to the spec, we will dispatch a progress event for a read method. But per the Progress Events 1.0 spec, the attributes loaded and total are

Re: [WebTiming] HTMLElement timing

2010-02-17 Thread James Robinson
of performance issues), and ideally how much JS parsing and SSL handshakes add to the load time. This would give website owners tremendously valuable data is currently impossible to reliably track. Lenny Rachitsky Webmetrics James Robinson-5 wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Zhiheng

Re: [WebTiming] HTMLElement timing

2010-02-02 Thread James Robinson
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Zhiheng Wang zhihe...@google.com wrote: Hi, Olli, On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fiwrote: On 1/27/10 9:39 AM, Zhiheng Wang wrote: Folks, Thanks to the much feedback from various developers, the WebTiming specs has

Re: [XHR] New api request

2010-01-31 Thread James Robinson
Why not create a new XMLHttpRequest object for each request? - James On Jan 29, 2010 5:31 AM, Pedro Santos pedros...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how interest is for you develop new APIs in order to enable a reuse of the XMLHttpRequest objects, without the need to call abort method? -- Pedro Henrique