Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Robert Green
I wish to comment on the recommendation that NodeLists returned by the selectors API will be static. I feel this removes one of the great benefits of live collections, that is, that once a collection is created, it is automatically updated by the browser itself. This provides the

Re: Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:32:56 +0100, Robert Green rg...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have been told that the reason for not having live collections is for performance, but I find that hard to understand. The current live collections are much faster than their native javascript emulations, I can't

Re: Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:49:17 +0100, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Just as a point of record, I believe browser implementors were split on the issue (e.g. I think in Gecko live performance would be as good, if not better in many cases, as non-live performance. I said so at the time

Re: Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:49:17 +0100, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Just as a point of record, I believe browser implementors were split on the issue (e.g. I think in Gecko live performance would be as good, if not better in many cases, as non-live performance.

Re: Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:00:49 +0100, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: Interesting. I recall only hearing back from WebKit and Opera at the time I made the initial decision. I recall that feedback as well, but assumed that this was the usual issue of some

Re: Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Anne van Kesteren wrote: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Mar/0066.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Apr/0009.html I read those. That was long after this was initially discussed though. And also around the time I stopped being the active editor of

RE: FW: problems using http://bondi.omtp.org/

2009-03-23 Thread David Rogers
Hi Josh, Many thanks for your input, again I'll ensure your comments are considered. Thanks, David. -Original Message- From: timeless.b...@gmail.com [mailto:timeless.b...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of timeless Sent: 23 March 2009 14:17 To: David Rogers Cc: WebApps WG Subject: Re: FW:

Re: Selectors API

2009-03-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:30:54 +0100, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Mar/0066.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Apr/0009.html I read those. That was long after this was initially

Allowing widget to change (or ask to change) it's own mode

2009-03-23 Thread ivan.demarino
Hello. Does anyone agrees that probably we missed an API? Something like widget.changeMode(String newMode);? This should allow the widget to ask the WUA to change it's mode: of course the WUA can refuse to do so, but I think the API should be available. Any idea/feedback about this? Regards

localStorage and IE8

2009-03-23 Thread Ian Hickson
IE8 implements the localStorage feature of the Web Storage specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#storage However, in a recent thread on the whatwg mailing list [1], it was noticed that IE8 fails to implement the following requirement from the section entitled 3.6 Threads: #