Server-Sent Events contradiction

2013-01-02 Thread Bill Thiede
The Server-Sent Events at http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-eventsource-20121211/ states under the IANA considerations / Security considerations section: Servers can be overwhelmed if a situation develops in which the server is causing clients to reconnect rapidly. Servers should use a 5xx status code

Affiliation change and Streams API status

2013-01-02 Thread Feras Moussa
Hi all,this is to announce that my affiliation has changed and I no longer work for Microsoft. I will remain part of the WG as an invited expert, and will continue on as editor of the Streams API spec. I've recently made a set of changes to the Streams API[1] and believe the spec is feature

[html-templates] Typos

2013-01-02 Thread Jens O. Meiert
Hi, I noticed the following typos in the HTML Templates draft [1]: * Under “Definitions,” “If DOCUMENT does not have a browsing context, Let…” (should be “let”). * Same section, “the stack of open elements is said be have” (seems to miss “to”). * Sometimes the word ”html” is used in lowercase,

Re: Server-Sent Events contradiction

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Bill Thiede wrote: The Server-Sent Events at http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-eventsource-20121211/ states under the IANA considerations / Security considerations section: Servers can be overwhelmed if a situation develops in which the server is causing clients to

Re: exposing CANVAS or something like it to Web Workers

2013-01-02 Thread 社用
Another issue as come up and that is one of being able to synchronize updates of a canvas in worker with changes in the main page. For a real world example see Google's MapsGL (http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=1630790) Apparently MapsGL uses 2 canvases and/or some DOM

Re: Server-Sent Events contradiction

2013-01-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Since none of the browsers I could test reconnect for 500s currently as far as I can tell, I've changed the spec to not make 5xxs reconnect. The server load issue seems like a pretty big deal. Ordinary exponential backoff deals

Re: Server-Sent Events contradiction

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Since none of the browsers I could test reconnect for 500s currently as far as I can tell, I've changed the spec to not make 5xxs reconnect. The server load issue seems like a