Re: [widgets] dropping Asynchronous HTTP Requests and Storage

2009-04-08 Thread Arthur Barstow
On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: I had a discussion with Anne on IRC about using the Storage interface and XHR [1]. He recommended that we recommend support for Storage only on user agents that support HTML5. With regards to XHR, the same applies: it would be a property of

Re: [widgets] dropping Asynchronous HTTP Requests and Storage

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Berjon
On Apr 7, 2009, at 06:37 , Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 Apr 2009, at 15:33, Anne van Kesteren wrote: You will have this problem regardless of how you solve this issue if you do not also require a specific

Re: [widgets] dropping Asynchronous HTTP Requests and Storage

2009-04-06 Thread Scott Wilson
These are common practices that are ready to be standardised to realize a benefit for widget developers and widget users. The argument of user agents having to support two storage mechanisms for widgets is a strawman: the cost for a UA to support the Widget Preferences (Storage) API and

Re: [widgets] dropping Asynchronous HTTP Requests and Storage

2009-04-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:26:15 +0200, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: These are common practices that are ready to be standardised to realize a benefit for widget developers and widget users. The argument of user agents having to support two storage mechanisms for widgets is a

Re: [widgets] dropping Asynchronous HTTP Requests and Storage

2009-04-06 Thread Arthur Barstow
On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: I had a discussion with Anne on IRC about using the Storage interface and XHR [1]. He recommended that we recommend support for Storage only on user agents that support HTML5. With regards to XHR, the same applies: it would be a property of

Re: [widgets] dropping Asynchronous HTTP Requests and Storage

2009-04-06 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 Apr 2009, at 15:33, Anne van Kesteren wrote: You will have this problem regardless of how you solve this issue if you do not also require a specific scripting language, markup language, etc. It seems to