Re: [charter] Request for Comments; deadline Sept 10

2015-08-28 Thread timeless
Art wrote: The proposal to merge the WebApps WG and the HTML WG has started a formal review period that ends September 10: http://w3c.github.io/charter-html/group-charter.html IRC: active participants, particularly editors, regularly use the #webapps W3C IRC channel is this channel

Re: CR: Web Storage (Second Edition)

2015-07-02 Thread timeless
http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-webstorage-20150609/ Particpate: [sic] the event must have its key attribute initialised to the name of the key in question, `initialized` [About 11,800,000 results] should be spelled as such for w3c specs (w3c is en-us) instead of `initialised` [About 553,000

Re: PSA: publishing new WD of Service Workers on June 25

2015-06-30 Thread timeless
http://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/publish/service_worker/WD-service-workers-20150625/ Invoke Run Service Worker algorithm with serviceWorker as the arguement [sic]. Fetch invokes Handle Fetch with request. As a result of performing Handle Fetch, the Service Woker [sic] returns

[Pointer Lock] Comments

2014-12-02 Thread timeless
1. w3c is en-us https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/pointerlock/raw-file/ea789b4e5b82/index.html#abstract modelling - modeling 2. Xlib

Re: April face-to-face meetings for HTML and WebApps

2012-02-08 Thread timeless
It's Passover [1]. Passover begins in the evening of Friday, April 6, 2012, and ends in the evening of Saturday, April 14, 2012. As it happens, your calendar hits the *end* of Passover which is just as major of a holiday as the beginning (the middle is somewhat minor). At the risk of being seen

Fwd: Data compression APIs?

2012-01-30 Thread timeless
Since webapps is currently rechartering, is this something it wants to consider? Note that I'm not a member of webapps at this time. There have been some requests for zip support [1], and probably less relevant for xhr [2]. Note that the use case I'm forwarding [3] requires support for both

Re: [editing] tab in an editable area WAS: [whatwg] behavior when typing in contentEditable elements

2012-01-07 Thread timeless
Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org wrote: We should make this configurable via execCommand: document.execCommand(TabBehavior, false, bitmask); The bitmask is because you might want a different set of behaviors: -Tabbing in lists -Tabbing in table cells -Tabbing blockquotes -Tab in none of the

Re: Enable Compression Of A Blob To .zip File

2011-11-30 Thread timeless
I think crypto is supposed to be in scope of another WG that was being chartered nowish On 11/30/11, Joran Greef jo...@ronomon.com wrote: It would be great to have a native binding to Zlib and Snappy exposed to Javascript in the browser. Zlib covers the expensive disk use-cases, Snappy covers

Re: Web Messaging Intents, was: Re: [DRAFT] Web Intents Task Force Charter

2011-11-18 Thread timeless
I'd like to request that people stop sending posts about web intents to public-webapps@w3.org and public-device-a...@w3.org The new list exists and should be used: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-intents/2011Nov/ On 11/18/11, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: On 11/18/11

Re: WebTV Use Cases (was Re: [DRAFT] Web Intents Task Force Charter)

2011-11-14 Thread timeless
As sa note, that document is in violation of http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/ The working language of the W3C is US English. The official version of a W3C document is the US English language version at the W3C site. So I fully expect it to change. On 11/14/11, Giuseppe Pascale

Re: [DRAFT] Web Intents Task Force Charter

2011-11-10 Thread timeless
Some of this really should wait until there's a list. I believe that generally one wants to adjust audio as close to the source as possible, in which case the TV doesn't know anything. Some parallels: A. If you have a cable box = vcr = tv in old serial fashion and use old fashion remotes,

Re: [DRAFT] Web Intents Task Force Charter

2011-11-10 Thread timeless
is that the web page actually does change the volume on the viewing device. That's the beauty of these home networking protocols. -Clarke On 11/10/11 2:53 PM, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: Some of this really should wait until there's a list. I believe that generally one wants to adjust audio

Re: Draft Minutes: 31 October 2011 f2f meeting

2011-11-01 Thread timeless
There are a couple of instances where the scribe.pl script broke and s///'s appear. Also because of that, there are a number of times when 'scribe:' appears as a speaker, with the former resolved, most of these should disappear. Lastly, due to autocompletion, there's a third scribe listed

Re: Re: CfC: new WD of Clipboard API and Events; deadline April 5

2011-09-07 Thread timeless
We've seen people who abused hidden style to smuggle evil shell commands into seemingly innocuous shell instructions. When pasting text into a word processor, one generally gets a functional preview of the results. When pasting into a shell, things are typically executed immediately sans preview.

Re: CfC: publish Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL; deadline July 7

2011-07-10 Thread timeless
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Although there are ongoing discussions regarding exceptions, there were no objections to this CfC. As such, I will request publication of a LC specification to encourage broader review and comments. Sorry, I'm in the

Re: Mutation events replacement

2011-07-08 Thread timeless
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:21 PM, John J Barton johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com wrote: 1. Graphical breakpoints. The user marks some DOM element or attribute to trigger break. The debugger inserts mutation listeners to watch for the event that causes that element/attribute to be created/modified.

Re: Mouse Lock

2011-06-24 Thread timeless
to the user how to press it; it isn't usefully labeled. On 6/23/11, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: timeless, I agree, it'd be nice to know. I'd really like to see this put toward the AG (Accessibility Guidelines) people, as they're the ones who follow this kind of things. It's absolutely

Re: Mouse Lock

2011-06-23 Thread timeless
And what if the device in question is just a touchscreen with no keyboard, mouse or hardware buttons? On 6/20/11, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 06/21/2011 12:25 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: The use-case

Re: [indexeddb] IDBDatabase.setVersion non-nullable parameter has a default for null

2011-06-23 Thread timeless
Cheers! On 6/23/11, Mark Pilgrim pilg...@google.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at

Re: [Bug 12965] New: Problem: I want to perform DNS queries from a HTML5 app, but the networking functions available are too restrictive to build a stub resolver. Why: DNS is not just for machines -

2011-06-15 Thread timeless
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12965           Summary: Problem: I want to perform DNS queries from a HTML5                    app, but the networking functions available are too                    restrictive to build a stub resolver. Why: DNS is not                    just for

Re: [indexeddb] Using WebIDL Dictionary in IDBObjectStore.createIndex for optionalParameters

2011-06-13 Thread timeless
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Israel Hilerio isra...@microsoft.com wrote: Is this what you were thinking? yes

Re: [indexeddb] Using WebIDL Dictionary in IDBObjectStore.createIndex for optionalParameters

2011-06-07 Thread timeless
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: For example, say that we in version 2 of indexedDB add support for foreign keys. So that you can say: createObjectStore(car, { keyPath: id, foreignKeys: [{keyPath: brand, objectStore: car-brands}]); It seems bad that if a

Re: Filtering clipboard MIME types (was: Re: clipboard events)

2011-05-17 Thread timeless
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen hallv...@opera.com wrote: to/from native clipboard types? Just off the top of your head? The typical Web MIME types would of course be something along the lines of text/plain text/html image/jpg image/gif image/png

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-12 Thread timeless
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Eric U er...@google.com wrote: There are a few things going on here: yes 1) Does the filesystem preserve case?  If it's case-sensitive, then yes.  If it's case-insensitive, then maybe. 2) Is it case-sensitive?  If not, you have to decide how to do case

Re: [widgets] WARP usability issue

2011-05-12 Thread timeless
2011/5/12 Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com: I'd be tempted to just strip off any trailing slashes on import. Actually I might do that for all path components in a WARP origin rather than throw an error. So. I was hoping it could be fixed by Stores when they import, but of course

Re: SpellCheck API?

2011-05-11 Thread timeless
2011/5/11 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+...@gmail.com: Here's an alternative suggestion that addresses the issues I had above, while (I think) still addressing all your use-cases.  Create a new interface: interface SpellcheckRange {  readonly unsigned long start;  readonly unsigned long length;  

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-11 Thread timeless
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Eric U er...@google.com wrote: Timeless replied: no, if the api is case insensitive, then it's case insensitive *everywhere*, both on Turkish and on English systems. Things could only be case sensitive when serialized to a real file system outside of the API

Re: clipboard events

2011-05-10 Thread timeless
I'm not really excited by the return of the attack on context menus. Allowing web sites to hold user's browsers hostage is a bad starting point. It might be ok if the user had to first opt into rich editing - maybe. Note that we only recently added protection for users against 'what you see is

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-08 Thread timeless
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: If *this API's* concept of filenames is case-insensitive, then IMAGE.JPG and image.jpg represent the same file on English systems and two different files on Turkish systems, which is an interop problem. no, if the api is case

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-08 Thread timeless
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: The one take-away I have from that bug: it would have been nice to have a more descriptive error message. It took awhile to figure out that the path length was too long for the implementation. if the exception included

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-07 Thread timeless
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: This can be solved at the application layer in applications that want it, without baking it into the filesystem API. I wasn't talking about baking it into the api, i meant that the application using it could write such code.

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-06 Thread timeless
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:43 AM, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: My argument is that we should favor:  'case preserving' + 'case folding' + 'case insensitivity'. The virtual file system is going to be something which

Re: [IndexedDB] Closing on bug 9903 (collations)

2011-05-06 Thread timeless
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: I'm not worried about crashes or security issues, but I am worried about performance. Not only is it the overhead of crossing from C++ into JS, but also the fact that the C++ code has to go through extra pains to ensure that

Re: [File API: FileSystem] Path restrictions and case-sensitivity

2011-05-05 Thread timeless
suggest the user use a more distinct name. As we're proposing file names that are longer than most users are likely to use by default, we can include datestamps (timeless unless collisions happen) to disambiguate user generated collisions via a browser side import -- if such a feature is provided at all).

Re: [widgets] Dig Sig spec

2011-05-02 Thread timeless
It's pretty much impossible for me to figure out which things are new or which i've missed in previous rounds. (It's also possible that I didn't review this spec, in which case, I'm sorry.) I don't believe these comments significantly affect the document, i.e. they're mostly editorial, although

Re: [widgets] Proposal to update Dig Sig spec; deadline May 3

2011-04-26 Thread timeless
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Widget People - if you have any objections/concerns re Marcos' proposal below, please respond by May 3 at the latest. (For some additional context, the start of the thread is [1]). Marcos - if no major

Re: publish new Working Draft of Indexed Database API; deadline April 16

2011-04-20 Thread timeless
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Eliot Graff eliot.gr...@microsoft.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Moving forward, I will track changes and resolution of these suggestions in bug 9379 [1]. ok Appreciate the time you've spent on this. here's next next part, note that i drafted it a while

Re: publish new Working Draft of Indexed Database API; deadline April 16

2011-04-12 Thread timeless
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote:  http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndexedDB/raw-file/tip/Overview.html I expect this message to only have editorial comments. However, I'm not fond of April 16th, this month is tax month and I still need to file. Transaction A

Re: How many ways to save store app data?

2011-04-10 Thread timeless
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Louis-rémi's thread [1] on AppCache led to discussions about other storage related APIs including DataCache, Google Gears, IDB and the File * APIs. Of note, Google Gears is basically gone (as of Google Chrome 12 and

Re: CfC: new WD of Clipboard API and Events; deadline April 5

2011-04-10 Thread timeless
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote:  http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/clipops/clipops.html If you have any comments or concerns about this proposal, please send them to public-webapps by April 5 at the latest. Sorry, i've been doing other stuff

Re: CfC: new WD of Clipboard API and Events; deadline April 5

2011-04-10 Thread timeless
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: Disagree. In explanatory text the more correct term is clearer. math is only american in usage, and avoiding the feeling that it is a typo would reduce congitive dissonance without being incorrect. ok not

Re: [widgets] Removed LocalizableString interface from Widgets API

2011-01-25 Thread timeless
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:32:57 +0100, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: a nokia maps application uses json for localization and could be easily ported to the widget format. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Charles McCathieNevile cha...@opera.com wrote: Could you automatically port

Re: [widgets] Removed LocalizableString interface from Widgets API

2011-01-21 Thread timeless
note that you don't *need* to duplicate html files. the format allows for one to have json based localizations. a nokia maps application uses json for localization and could be easily ported to the widget format. i can't do it publicly because i don't own/manage the code.

Re: [widgets] Storage keys and ECMAScript incompatibility?

2010-12-15 Thread timeless
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: things like widgets.preferences.12345=xyz throw exceptions. widgets.preferences[12345]=xyz probably works...

Re: [widgets] Storage keys and ECMAScript incompatibility?

2010-12-15 Thread timeless
note that i should have said: widgets.preferences[12345]=xyz probably works... since other reserved words don't work well unquoted... and obviously if your identifier includes , ', or \, you may need to quote it or escape it appropriately...

Re: Widget packaging spec: make it clear in the Abstract or Intro that PC widgets != UI controls

2010-11-07 Thread timeless
This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a class of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user interface widgets (e.g., buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.), widgets as specified in this document are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored

Re: [Widgets] Mozilla open apps

2010-10-20 Thread timeless
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: I've just had a look at this: https://apps.mozillalabs.com/ In some respects this is very much what we are aiming for (apps using HTML+JS+CSS) however it proposes a new proprietary app manifest format for

Re: ISSUE-122 (add mousewheel): Consider adding 'mousewheel' again [DOM3 Events]

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker sysbot+trac...@w3.org wrote: 'mousewheel' was later dropped based on feedback from implementers (Mozilla, Microsoft), who expressed a reluctance to implement 'mousewheel', and a lack of useful interoperability and

Re: XHR2 proposal: support for informational responses

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: it might be cool (and not too complicated) to (optionally) expose 1xx responses to the caller (see http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#status.1xx). There's one application I know of (not browser based) which

Re: [widgets] Draft minutes from 23 September 2010 voice conf

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote:   Regrets Minor note, I had told people in August that I would be on vacation for September, thus I should have been listed in Regrets for this meeting (and the previous one).

Re: A URL API

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Devdatta Akhawe dev.akh...@gmail.com wrote: 1) There are now two methods for getting at the URL parameters.  The and none for setting them? That's correct.  Looking at various libraries,

Re: [widgets] Best practice / recommendation for widget id scheme?

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Marcos Caceres marc...@opera.com wrote: Alway use a http uri.  Should we make an Authoring note in PC about this? https should be ok too :)

Re: Seeking agenda items for WebApps' Nov 1-2 f2f meeting

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
Thanks to Art, I'll be there. Most likely I'll be available as a scribe. I'm still digging through my backlog (one month's vacation takes time to recover). I should be done w/ my webapps backlog sometime tonight minus comments on actual documents (and that leaves one more mailing list w/ 400

Re: ISSUE-137 (IME-keypress): Should keypress events fire when using an IME? [DOM3 Events]

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker sysbot+trac...@w3.org wrote: ISSUE-137 (IME-keypress): Should keypress events fire when using an IME? [DOM3 Events] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/137 Raised by: Doug Schepers On product: DOM3 Events

Re: ISSUE-141 (IME examples): IME examples [DOM3 Events]

2010-10-10 Thread timeless
complete ti as timeless, from my perspective this is really an IME effect, it's equivalent to me pasteing timeless or meless over/after ti (however you want to think about it), it isn't equivalent to me typing t i m e l e s s, as I didn't do that. One reason to consider this is when you look at how PuTTY

Re: Seeking pre-LCWD comments for Indexed Database API; deadline February 2

2010-07-06 Thread timeless
Whomever adds delete/continue back to the spec needs to inline into the spec an explanation of why it's ok per ES5. Most (all) of us grew up pre ES5 and *believe* that they're truly reserved keywords and that what you're doing is invalid. So without inlining the explanation into the spec, you're

Re: Updates to File API

2010-06-13 Thread timeless
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Michael Nordman micha...@google.com wrote: Another advantage is that... blobdata://http_responsible_party.org:80/3699b4a0-e43e-4cec-b87b-82b6f83dd752 ... makes it clear to the end user who the responsible party is when these urls are visible in the user

Re: XMLHttpRequest Priority Proposal

2010-06-03 Thread timeless
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Mike Belshe mbel...@google.com wrote: Changes:    * changed the setPriority() method to be an attribute priority Applications may alter the priority by calling the setPriority() method on the XMLHttpRequest object.  The priority set on the object at the time

Re: ENISA Smartphone security study

2010-05-19 Thread timeless
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Giles Hogben giles.hog...@enisa.europa.eu wrote: I am a security expert at ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency). We conducting a study on smartphone security and would like to have input from the Web Apps WG via the attached

Re: Pre-LC Review Requested: System Information API

2010-05-12 Thread timeless
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Max Froumentin max...@opera.com wrote: - isBattery: true if the current power source is a battery - isBeingCharged: true if the current power source is a battery and is and drop current from the descriptions. Why? The power source can be changed over time.

Re: Pre-LC Review Requested: System Information API

2010-05-11 Thread timeless
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Max Froumentin max...@opera.com wrote: Ah, I see. It was the most logical place to put it. After both high and low were defined, but not separate. I don't know if it's wise repeating the same text in both places, either. I'm just flagging. I'm hoping someone

Re: Pre-LC Review Requested: System Information API

2010-05-10 Thread timeless
Please note, that like Jonas, I'm not endorsing any of this. http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/system-info/ the system which they are running on. ... on which they are running. Specifically, properties pertaining to the device hardware are addressed. exposed? Therefore, a conforming

Re: Pre-LC Review Requested: System Information API

2010-05-10 Thread timeless
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Max Froumentin max...@opera.com wrote: On 10/05/2010 11:12, timeless wrote: Please note, that like Jonas, I'm not endorsing any of this. What do you mean by that? Oh, it's sort of a standard disclaimer that people involved with Mozilla or as members of other

Re: [widgets] Moving to DVCS platform Re: [admin] DVCS platform at W3C

2010-05-04 Thread timeless
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Marcos Caceres marc...@opera.com wrote: With the WG's permission, I would like to move the widget specs to the  DVCS platform. sounds good Maybe we can put it on the agenda for discussion tomorrow.

Re: [widgets] Zip vs GZip Tar

2010-04-29 Thread timeless
2010/4/30 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com: I remain perplexed by the state of the spec is feature complete and looking for implementations - potential implementors saying the spec has X,Y,Z flaws - sorry, the spec is feature complete. We're looking for implementations. At this rate,

Re: [widgets] Zip vs GZip Tar

2010-04-28 Thread timeless
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Gregg Tavares g...@google.com wrote: I'm sorry if I'm not familiar with all the details of how the widgets spec is going but the specs encourage comment so I'm commenting :-) It seems like widgets have 2 uses #1) As a way to package an HTML5 app that can be

Re: [widgets] Zip vs GZip Tar

2010-04-28 Thread timeless
cool. thankfully the way the standards stuff works, it's too late to change any of this. e.g. the standards group has already selected a signing mechanism to which mozilla objects, but it can't be changed. similarly, zip can't be replaced in widgets. people are free to write replacement

Re: VMMF — new version

2010-03-10 Thread timeless
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Robin Berjon ro...@berjon.com wrote: I just produced an update of VMMF to make it ready for publication: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-vmmf/. Essentially I changed it so that it corresponds to CSS Media Queries. That, plus it being a UI oriented

Re: [widgets] API - openURL security considerations

2010-02-11 Thread timeless
://viper.haque.net/~timeless/blog/2/popups/ is the write-up, it's actually the oldest thing in my blog :). Note that my opinion has nothing specifically to do with widgets, I don't approve of random applications on my computer launching my web browser and ordering it to go somewhere. I'd rather my web

Re: Steps to creating a browser standard for the moz-icon:// scheme

2010-01-31 Thread timeless
2010/1/29 Pierre-Antoine LaFayette pierre.lafaye...@gmail.com: Perhaps if we found some creative commons icons to use as defaults for the most used extensions. It wouldn't match the native theme but at least we'd have something for cases where platform icons are not available. We'd need to

Re: [public-webapps] Comment on Widget URI (3)

2009-12-15 Thread timeless
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Robin Berjon ro...@berjon.com wrote: The term drive-by comment is one made against a specification in passing without the diligence and conscientiousness to participate in the follow-up discussion; and typically to then re-iterate it later. I believe that the

Re: [widgets] Draft Agenda for 17 September 2009 voice conf

2009-09-16 Thread timeless
Regrets, i'm on vacation for a month starting tomorrow

Re: [widget-uri] Widget URI ABNF definition comments

2009-09-15 Thread timeless
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:49 PM, jere.kapy...@nokia.com wrote: /4/ Finally, the IRI vs URI naming debate applies as ever. I agree it's messy in that we are so accustomed to URIs, but really should be using IRIs, and that not everyone is conditioned to mentally replace URI with IRI every time.

Re: ISSUE: The application/widget media type has not yet been registered with IANA. This will happen when the specification reaches Candidate Recommendation status.

2009-09-13 Thread timeless
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Innovimax SARLinnovi...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to propose that the mediatype should be application/widget+zip In this case it is clear that it is a zip package (just in case another widget package come along with another packaging format : gzip, opc,

Re: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme... it's baaaack!

2009-09-08 Thread timeless
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Mark Bakerdist...@acm.org wrote: I don't understand.  In what scenario would a script be comparing URIs produced by different implementations? implementations tend to be stupid and parse things by hand. if you don't believe this, all you have to do is look at

Re: HTTP status code equivalents for file:// operations - compat with xhr

2009-08-18 Thread timeless
I'd rather we formally indicate that using file urls in XMLHttpRequests is not expected to work with an explanation that there are security concerns which prevent XMLHttpRequest safely exposing arbitrary file urls. People who need access to local files should use a locally bound web server or if

Re: DnD vs CnP (was Copy/Paste Events)

2009-08-14 Thread timeless
Paul Libbrecht wrote: - drag and drop allows a precise visual target identification thus may be considered safer (and this is actually implemented so: you can faster drag-and-drop URLs than copy and paste them). this isn't true. depending on how friendly your drop target is, it theoretically

Re: Copy/Paste Events

2009-07-28 Thread timeless
Jacob Rossi wrote: Are you mostly referring to non-touch mobile users? I'll answer this first, by saying that it was a general reference. Although, it is true that today I work in the mobile industry. But i also worry about other scenarios. Perhaps for some people it's hard to use a mouse (there

Re: Copy/Paste Events

2009-07-27 Thread timeless
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Sebastian Markbågesebast...@calyptus.eu wrote: I agree with Jacob. I find this part of the spec... puzzling. so, one advantage of not distinguishing is that it enables people w/o mice to trigger drag events. if you don't do this, you effectively block such users

Re: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration LCWD review

2009-07-11 Thread timeless
Marcos Caceres wrote: a class of software application Was plural intended? Plural? as in: software applications

Re: widgets feedback

2009-07-08 Thread timeless
DoC: ok

Re: [widgets] PC, outstanding feedbac...

2009-07-08 Thread timeless
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Marcos Caceresmarc...@opera.com wrote: For the sake of the DoC, can you live with the current i18n model? No.

Re: widgets feedback

2009-07-04 Thread timeless
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Marcos Caceresmarc...@opera.com wrote: Fixed issues below. If satisfied with the corrections, please give us an OK for the DoC :) DoC: OK I guess the person at Times Square that made the decision to activate the widget. Oh well. Someday that user will be

Re: widgets feedback

2009-07-04 Thread timeless
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcos Caceresmarc...@opera.com wrote: Fixed all editorial comments  below for this third set of comments. If satisfied with the corrections, please give us an OK for the DoC :) DoC: OK This would be the author's fault for including an empty file. The UA

Re: widgets feedback

2009-07-04 Thread timeless
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Marcos Caceresmarc...@opera.com wrote: Addressed your final set of editorial issues. If satisfied with the corrections, please give us an OK for the DoC :) DoC: OK except for the one below. 4:37 PM A user agent will acquire a potential Zip archive from a data

Re: [widgets] PC, outstanding feedbac...

2009-07-04 Thread timeless
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Marcos Caceresmarc...@opera.com wrote: I talked to our localization guys about this, they said that is definitely not a good thing. They said any content is better than no content, even if there is a mismatch. I've spoken w/ coworkers recently, and other people

Re: [widgets] PC, outstanding feedbac...

2009-07-03 Thread timeless
I wrote: hey, you won't like this, but... I think we botched the l10n stuff :). The problem is that the design is based on individual resources, which is wrong. Negotiation should really be done at the Package level. This is one of those things where thinking HTTPish screws you over. A user

Re: File API Feedback

2009-07-01 Thread timeless
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote: The picasa-style example mentioned earlier uses the word upload. I've not used Picasa, but it appears to read files off a local network. confused. i suspect i was the one who mentioned it. Picasa is mostly a local

Re: [widgets] Please include a statement of purpose and user interaction expectations for feature

2009-06-23 Thread timeless
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Robin Berjonro...@berjon.com wrote: Precisely: defining behaviour would turn us into a UI specification — which we dearly want to avoid. yep. Constant prompting makes for a dreadful UX, that's for sure, yep. but fixing that should be up to UA vendors. or

widgets feedback

2009-06-18 Thread timeless
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/ Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:52 AM 2:29 AM me: hey   suppose that times square becomes widget capable 2:30 AM and starts running widgets, like a Clock.wdgt   who's the end user? :){ 9 minutes 2:40 AM me: Bluetooth is spelled as

widgets feedback

2009-06-18 Thread timeless
Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM 8:42 AM me: A conformance checker (CC) is a user agent that verifies if a widget package and a configuration document conform to this specification.   if = whether 56 minutes 9:38 AM me: liwhen the a class=no-toc no-num

widgets feedback

2009-06-18 Thread timeless
Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM 4:15 PM me: (e.g., floating and application mode) either floating mode and application mode or the floating and application modes   The following example shows the usage of the name element. widget xmlns=http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets; name short=Weather The

widgets spec

2009-06-18 Thread timeless
btw, don't forget the little people when you make the credits :) have a good vacation, sorry about the delays. all done :)

widgets feedback

2009-06-18 Thread timeless
Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:48 PM 6:36 PM me: (e.g., a user agent could use an array, or an object, or a hash map, etc.). drop each or 6:41 PM For each element in the elements list, if the element is one of the following: A preference element: doesn't mention readonly (this might be ok, or maybe

Re: File API Feedback

2009-06-18 Thread timeless
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Arun Ranganathana...@mozilla.com wrote: Hixie, I think a Base64 representation of the file resource may be sufficient, particularly for the image use case (which is how it is used already).  Can you flesh out why the new schema is a good idea? so. I have

Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures

2009-06-04 Thread timeless
Hi, apologies for the late comments. I hope all of my comments are of an editorial nature. The only one that might not be is the last one which is a question. http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/ - I'm aware this is non normative: 1.4 Example CanonicalizationMethod

Re: Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures

2009-06-04 Thread timeless
Why is Id written in mixed case? On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Thomas Roessler t...@w3.org wrote: That's a choice that was made in the original version of the XML Signature spec 7 years ago. gah. thanks, and i think i've actually asked about this before. oops. ok, retracted. sorry :)

Re: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme... it's baaaack!

2009-05-27 Thread timeless
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Roessler t...@w3.org wrote: 2. Where does the requirement for query strings suddenly come from?  I can't find it in the current editor's draft, and (beyond a side discussion with timeless) don't recall conversation about it. Basically web apps expect

Re: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme... it's baaaack!

2009-05-27 Thread timeless
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Roessler t...@w3.org wrote: Just to be clear...  The expectation you're talking about is that: 1. upon dereferencing, the query part is ignored I'm not specifically making this request, I believe in our unminuted discussion we talked about the potential

Re: [widgets] Draft Agenda for 28 May 2009 Voice Conference

2009-05-27 Thread timeless
regrets, i'm traveling (again, i seem to do this often these days)

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