Re: [WebSQL] Any future plans, or has IndexedDB replaced WebSQL?

2011-04-02 Thread Nathan Kitchen
I agree that it'd be best to have a spec independent of database platform, which is why I was asking about an idea along the lines of RelationalDB https://github.com/keean/RelationalDBor the example I gave in the email which initiated this discussion, both of which are entirely abstracted from the

Re: [WebSQL] Any future plans, or has IndexedDB replaced WebSQL?

2011-04-02 Thread Joran Greef
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 00:42:40, Glenn Maynard wrote: You can certainly ask if they're interested in doing so, not for our benefit (whoever our means), but for the benefit of the Web as a whole, and there's nothing at all rude in asking. I'd say the opposite: it's rude to assume they

Re: [WebSQL] Any future plans, or has IndexedDB replaced WebSQL?

2011-04-02 Thread Joran Greef
I am incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of putting the responsibility of the health of the web in the hands of one project. In fact, one of the main reasons I started working at Mozilla was to prevent this. / Jonas I agree with you. All the more reason to support both WebSQL and

Re: How to standardize new Offline Web app features? [Was Re: Offline Web Applications status]

2011-04-02 Thread Arthur Barstow
Hi Michael, I am also not subscribed to public-html so I don't know if the HTMLWG discussed splitting Offline Web apps into a separate spec. One of reasons Storage, Server-sent Events, etc. were split out of HTML5 spec is to permit those specs moving through the W3C's Recommendation track

Re: [WebSQL] Any future plans, or has IndexedDB replaced WebSQL?

2011-04-02 Thread Keean Schupke
Pity. Anyway RelationalDB defines its API without reference to the underlying SQL or non-SQL database... So as a candidate for replacing WebSQL, it does not suffer from that problem. Cheers, Keean. On 2 April 2011 14:56, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:24 AM,

Re: Selectors API IDL Issues

2011-04-02 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 4/2/11 5:46 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Right, I get that much, but that mail I linked to previously claimed this difference was somehow observable from scripts, but I don't see how. Scripts can tell which object on the prototype chain a property comes from pretty trivially, no? Most simply