Window atttributes for timing info

2009-06-14 Thread Zhiheng Wang
Hello, I am writing to seek interest of adding a set of window attributes in the html5 specs to let browser expose timing-related information of a page. Many web pages/apps these days use javascript to measure component/page latencies. Some open source project has also been trying to make i

Re: [cors] Review

2009-06-14 Thread Mark Nottingham
Thanks - a few replies below. On 14/06/2009, at 10:24 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:58:31 +0200, Mark Nottingham wrote: As I said, I raised have raised substantive issues before: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2008Jan/0226.html and don't believe

Re: [WebIDL] double

2009-06-14 Thread Cameron McCormack
Ian Hickson: > Oh. Wouldn't it make more sense for JS compatiblility to have float be > 64-bit? It seems bad to have a type that is 32-bit but then have its most > common implementation not throw an exception or anything if setting a > number that is 64-bit into it. When converting Number value

Re: [WebIDL] double

2009-06-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Cameron McCormack wrote: > Ian Hickson: > > How do I know when to use float or double, for types that are supposed to > > represent infinite range? Should I just make everything double? > > If you want more range, sure, use double. Web IDL doesn’t have an > arbitrary precis

Re: [WebIDL] double

2009-06-14 Thread Cameron McCormack
Ian Hickson: > How do I know when to use float or double, for types that are supposed to > represent infinite range? Should I just make everything double? If you want more range, sure, use double. Web IDL doesn’t have an arbitrary precision numeric type. But double specifically means 64-bit IEE

Re: [WebIDL] double

2009-06-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Cameron McCormack wrote: > > I’ve added a distinct double type, as exists in OMG IDL: > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#idl-double > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#es-double > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#java-double How do I know when to use flo

[widgets] Comments on Widgets 1.0: Packaging and configuration, 9.1 Processing rules

2009-06-14 Thread Francois Daoust
Hi, Oops, it looks like I have a few more points to make on path resolution. These comments apply to the editor's draft 11 June 2009 version of the Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration specification. Comments apply to the "Rule for finding a file within a widget package" section in 9.1 P

Re: [webidl] definition of const string literal

2009-06-14 Thread Cameron McCormack
Cameron McCormack: > (Also I see that you’re using the “string” and “wstring”, and L"wide > string" values. Are you of the opinion that Web IDL should introduce > those instead of DOMString?) Shiki Okasaka: > In my opinion, it would be nice if we can use the keyword 'string' as > the same meaning

Re: [WebIDL] double

2009-06-14 Thread Cameron McCormack
Anne van Kesteren: > For longitudes at least Geolocation needs high precision floating > point values. We can either introduce the double type in Web IDL or > just make float map always map to the 64 bit variant (as it already > does for ECMAScript as I understand things). I don't feel strongly > e

File API - W3C Working Draft 7 June 2009

2009-06-14 Thread timeless
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileUpload/publish/FileAPI.xhtml Note, I expect all of my comments here to be of an editorial nature. In the Abstract: > use of appropriate [DOM]DOM methods should return a FileList object, [DOM]DOM has no markup and seems very out of place. > have the ability to m

Re: [cors] Review

2009-06-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:58:31 +0200, Mark Nottingham wrote: > As I said, I raised have raised substantive issues before: >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2008Jan/0226.html > and don't believe they were formally addressed (note that I'm using > Process terminology here).

ISSUE-89: Reduce the length of the header names? [CORS]

2009-06-14 Thread Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker
ISSUE-89: Reduce the length of the header names? [CORS] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/89 Raised by: Anne van Kesteren On product: CORS In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009AprJun/0643.html Mark Nottingham suggests that we rename the headers used in the pro

Re: XHR without user credentials

2009-06-14 Thread Jonas Sicking
A few comments: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Tyler Close wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >>> Isn't your answer above only about client (user agent) behavior? I'd still >>> like understand what the recommended/expected difference in server behavior >>> should/might