Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-21 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Marcos Caceres marc...@opera.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: Marcos Caceres wrote: ... Yeah, you are right. I guess we get so

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-20 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Alex Russell a...@dojotoolkit.org wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: OK, so is the conclusion that XHR is

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-20 Thread Julian Reschke
Marcos Caceres wrote: ... Yeah, you are right. I guess we get so used to having these crappy retrospective APIs around that one forgets that things could be done in better ways - thankfully decent frameworks have been built around them to make these things usable. ... Maybe that could be a

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-20 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: Marcos Caceres wrote: ... Yeah, you are right. I guess we get so used to having these crappy retrospective APIs around that one forgets that things could be done in better ways - thankfully decent frameworks have

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Marcos Caceres marc...@opera.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: Marcos Caceres wrote: ... Yeah, you are right. I guess we get so used to having these crappy retrospective APIs around that one forgets

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 16, 2009, at 21:47, Klotz, Leigh wrote: I'd like to suggest that the main issue is dependency of the XHR document on concepts where HTML5 is the only specification that defines several core concepts of the Web platform architecture, such as event loops, event handler attributes,

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On Dec 16, 2009, at 21:47, Klotz, Leigh wrote: I'd like to suggest that the main issue is dependency of the XHR document on concepts where HTML5 is the only specification that defines several core concepts of the Web

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Klotz, Leigh leigh.kl...@xerox.com wrote: If XHR is wholly dependent on HTML5 then it should either be moved into the HTML5 recommendation-track document, or renamed XHR for HTML5.   Ian has made a point that modularizing HTML5 itself is a large task; it's not

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
Comments from W3C Forms WG On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Klotz, Leigh leigh.kl...@xerox.com wrote: If XHR is wholly dependent on HTML5 then it should either be moved into the HTML5 recommendation-track document, or renamed XHR for HTML5.   Ian has made a point

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
, Leigh Cc: Henri Sivonen; Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG ... I don't think I understand your suggested changes. As long as the concepts that XHR uses are only defined in the HTML5 spec, XHR will always require that those

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
  From: Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com   Subject: Re: [XHR] LC comments from the XForms Working Group   Date: 2009-10-08 15:31:27 GMT   On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:24:48 +0200, Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at mit.edu wrote:   Anne van Kesteren wrote:   It would change the conformance

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote:   From: Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com   Subject: Re: [XHR] LC comments from the XForms Working Group   Date: 2009-10-08 15:31:27 GMT   On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:24:48 +0200, Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at mit.edu wrote:

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
-Original Message- From: Jonas Sicking [mailto:jo...@sicking.cc] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:54 AM To: Klotz, Leigh Cc: Henri Sivonen; Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG ...snip And then go on to cite

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG ...snip Though I just realized that I'm not sure all dependencies can be solved this way. How would you for example break the dependency on the event loop, currently only specified in the HTML5 spec (but implemented in basically every piece of software

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Klotz, Leigh leigh.kl...@xerox.com wrote: Jonas, I'm not sure how the dependency is specified in the XHR draft.  Can you point me to it?  The word event loop doesn't appear. The term queue a task is defined in HTML5, and uses the event loop. / Jonas

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
-Original Message- From: Jonas Sicking [mailto:jo...@sicking.cc] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:33 AM To: Klotz, Leigh Cc: Henri Sivonen; Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On Thu, Dec 17

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
: WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On 12/17/09 2:10 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: I'd be surprised if some of these aren't terms already defined elsewhere. URL for example, is surely not given a different definition in HTML5 from the definition in RFC 3986

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/17/09 2:22 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Thank you for the clarification. Surely then this ought to be fixed with an IETF or W3C document describing this fact After some pushback, there is in fact such a document being worked on. It's not quite far enough to reference normatively last I

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
[mailto:bzbar...@mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:38 PM To: Klotz, Leigh Cc: WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On 12/17/09 2:22 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Thank you for the clarification. Surely then this ought to be fixed with an IETF or W3C

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
HTML5 for reference. Leigh. -Original Message- From: Boris Zbarsky [mailto:bzbar...@mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:38 PM To: Klotz, Leigh Cc: WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On 12/17/09 2:22 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Thank

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Klotz, Leigh
WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG As Ian already has mentioned. No one is disputing that most of these things should be factored out of the HTML5 spec. But so far no one has stepped up to that task. Until someone does we'll have to live with the reality

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 12/17/09 2:22 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Thank you for the clarification. Surely then this ought to be fixed with an IETF or W3C document describing this fact After some pushback, there is in fact such a document being worked on. It's

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-17 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
: Boris Zbarsky; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG As Ian already has mentioned. No one is disputing that most of these things should be factored out of the HTML5 spec. But so far no one has stepped up to that task. Until someone does we'll have to live

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-16 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:46:59 +0100, Klotz, Leigh leigh.kl...@xerox.com wrote: This comment on XMLHttpRequest [1] is from the Forms WG. A standalone W3C Recommendation-track document is welcome, particularly because of the statement in [2] The goal of this specification is to document a

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-16 Thread Klotz, Leigh
van Kesteren [mailto:ann...@opera.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:54 AM To: Klotz, Leigh; WebApps WG Cc: Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:46:59 +0100, Klotz, Leigh leigh.kl...@xerox.com wrote: This comment on XMLHttpRequest [1

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-16 Thread Klotz, Leigh
; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Therefore, even in the light of the changes in details I've cited (and your kind corrections for my errors and outdated imformation), our request that you abstract out

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-16 Thread Klotz, Leigh
, December 16, 2009 12:04 PM To: Klotz, Leigh Cc: Ian Hickson; Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG Note that just referring to a few specific concepts defined in HTML5 does not force anyone to implement the rest of HTML5. As things stand right

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-16 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Therefore, even in the light of the changes in details I've cited (and your kind corrections for my errors and outdated imformation), our request that you abstract out the dependencies on HTML5 into a separate document (perhaps part of the

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-12-16 Thread Klotz, Leigh
, Leigh Cc: Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Forms WG Subject: RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Klotz, Leigh wrote: Therefore, even in the light of the changes in details I've cited (and your kind corrections for my errors and outdated imformation), our

Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-11-25 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 11/25/09 3:46 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: The XMLHttpRequest functionality described in this document has previously been well isolated, and in fact XHR itself has beeen implemented by a number of different desktop browser vendors by copying the original implementations. Note that these were

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-11-25 Thread Klotz, Leigh
: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:54 PM To: Klotz, Leigh Cc: public-webapps@w3.org; Forms WG Subject: Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG On 11/25/09 3:46 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote: The XMLHttpRequest functionality described in this document has previously been well isolated, and in fact

RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

2009-11-25 Thread Klotz, Leigh
-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Klotz, Leigh Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:27 PM To: Boris Zbarsky Cc: public-webapps@w3.org; Forms WG Subject: RE: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG Boris, Thank you for your response. I appreciate your asking the clarifying questions. I'll put some