Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-30 Thread Noah Mendelsohn
Thank you. Please let me know if there are any significant changes to the status of this. Noah Chair: W3C Technical Architecture Group On 11/30/2011 12:57 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: Noah - FYI, I updated [Action-640] to include the TAG's comment [LC-2] (it originally was only for Ashok's person

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-30 Thread Arthur Barstow
Noah - FYI, I updated [Action-640] to include the TAG's comment [LC-2] (it originally was only for Ashok's personal comment [Ashok]) and updated LC-2 to connect it to Action-640. -AB [Action-640] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/actions/640 [LC-2] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WebSt

Re: Call for Contributors: TAG's Web App Storage work [Was: Re: TAG Comment on Web Storage]

2011-11-23 Thread Noah Mendelsohn
I should also clarify that the TAG itself has not at this point reached consensus on the goals or scope for any work we might do in the storage area, though we have given Ashok an action to investigate what, if anything, might be useful. One possible direction would be for the TAG to do what i

Re: Call for Contributors: TAG's Web App Storage work [Was: Re: TAG Comment on Web Storage]

2011-11-23 Thread ashok malhotra
Hi Mark: The idea is to involve some of those folks in this effort. All the best, Ashok On 11/23/2011 2:49 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: What effect will this effort have on the implementations? Are they listening? Cheers, On 23/11/2011, at 11:49 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: Hi All, Off-list, As

Re: Call for Contributors: TAG's Web App Storage work [Was: Re: TAG Comment on Web Storage]

2011-11-23 Thread Mark Nottingham
What effect will this effort have on the implementations? Are they listening? Cheers, On 23/11/2011, at 11:49 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > Hi All, > > Off-list, Ashok and I talked about his comments and TAG's Web Application > Storage work [1]. Ashok would welcome WebApps' participation in tha

Call for Contributors: TAG's Web App Storage work [Was: Re: TAG Comment on Web Storage]

2011-11-23 Thread Arthur Barstow
Hi All, Off-list, Ashok and I talked about his comments and TAG's Web Application Storage work [1]. Ashok would welcome WebApps' participation in that work. Thus, for the WebApps group - this is call for contributors. If you are interested in contributing to this area, please respond to this

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-21 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 11/20/11 8:33 PM, ext ashok malhotra wrote: The idea is not to remove APIs. We have several client-side storage facilities that cover different but overlapping usecases. Can we step back and look at what we have and come up, perhaps, with a smaller set of facilities and better coordinated

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:47:05 +0100, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> >> For example, some browsers still (!) support , but that doesn't >> mean we should promote its use. > > FWIW, is defined as a feature in HTML5 browsers are expected to > i

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-21 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:47:05 +0100, Mark Nottingham wrote: For example, some browsers still (!) support , but that doesn't mean we should promote its use. FWIW, is defined as a feature in HTML5 browsers are expected to implement. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Mike Taylor wrote: > > A quick search of Google code [1], Github [2][3], and Bitbucket [4][5] would > indicate otherwise, IMO. For example, the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor that is > included in every Wordpress installation (currently estimated at 65,787,814 > sites [6])

Revising Web Storage, was: Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 11/20/11 7:27 PM, Mike Taylor wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:30:15 -0500, Mark Nottingham wrote: Yes, if you configure your browser to do so, you'll be assaulted with requests for a "test db" from many Web sites that use common frameworks. I don't think that this should count as "use." I

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread Mike Taylor
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:30:15 -0500, Mark Nottingham wrote: Yes, if you configure your browser to do so, you'll be assaulted with requests for a "test db" from many Web sites that use common frameworks. I don't think that this should count as "use." I do think now is precisely the time to be

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread ashok malhotra
The idea is not to remove APIs. We have several client-side storage facilities that cover different but overlapping usecases. Can we step back and look at what we have and come up, perhaps, with a smaller set of facilities and better coordinated APIs. All the best, Ashok On 11/20/2011 3:42 PM

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 21/11/2011, at 10:42 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > You're welcome to tilt at that windmill, but the chance that you get > these APIs removed from browser is approximately zero. There's a difference between the W3C and browser vendors promoting these as the future of the Web as-is, and supporting t

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread Adam Barth
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Yes, if you configure your browser to do so, you'll be assaulted with > requests for a "test db" from many Web sites that use common frameworks. > > I don't think that this should count as "use." Indeed. That is not the sort of use I'm r

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-20 Thread Mark Nottingham
Yes, if you configure your browser to do so, you'll be assaulted with requests for a "test db" from many Web sites that use common frameworks. I don't think that this should count as "use." I do think now is precisely the time to be asking this kind of question; these features are NOT yet used

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-18 Thread Noah Mendelsohn
> Noah - the TAG's comment has been added to the comment tracking document > for this LC: > > http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WebStorage-Comments-LC-25Oct2011#LC-2 Thank you. Noah On 11/18/2011 10:01 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: Noah - the TAG's comment has been added to the comment tracking

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-18 Thread Arthur Barstow
Noah - the TAG's comment has been added to the comment tracking document for this LC: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WebStorage-Comments-LC-25Oct2011#LC-2 If anyone wants to propose extensions or changes to Web Storage, please use [Bugzilla] and please feel free to contribute to the group

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Noah Mendelsohn
Speaking for myself now, and not necessarily for the TAG: I agree with those who say or imply that it's late for making incompatible changes to the Web Storage specification. I'm less clear that's the case for appcache, given comments about its many problems at the workshop last week, but just

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Glenn Adams wrote: >> Perhaps. But widely implemented does not necessarily imply widely used. In >> any case, support for or use of a feature of a WD or CR does not imply it >> must be present in REC. > >Use of a feature does, in fact, impl

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Glenn Adams wrote: > Perhaps. But widely implemented does not necessarily imply widely used. Is anyone really suggesting that Web Storage isn't widely used? In any case, support for or use of a feature of a WD or CR does not imply > it must be present in REC.

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Glenn Adams wrote: > Perhaps. But widely implemented does not necessarily imply widely used. In > any case, support for or use of a feature of a WD or CR does not imply it > must be present in REC. Use of a feature does, in fact, imply that, unless there are *very

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Glenn Adams
Perhaps. But widely implemented does not necessarily imply widely used. In any case, support for or use of a feature of a WD or CR does not imply it must be present in REC. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM, wrote: > >* From:* ext Glenn Adams [gl...@skynav.com] > *> * > > Could you quantify "wi

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Pritchard
Extend, not delete. On Nov 15, 2011, at 3:51 PM, ashok malhotra wrote: > But we should give it a try, no? > The spec are still Working Drafts. > All the best, Ashok > > On 11/15/2011 2:47 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> These APIs are quite widely used on the web. It seems unlikely that >> we'll be

RE: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Art.Barstow
> From: ext Glenn Adams [gl...@skynav.com] > > Could you quantify "widely"? I think this definition of "widely used" is useful for this context: http://caniuse.com/#search=storage Personally, I see little to negative value in ignoring the fact the "ship has sailed" for this spec. -AB On Tue,

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Pritchard
Chromium devs put forward a unified quota API recently. localStorage provides 5 megs of UTF16 storage; or about 2 megs of storage for binary files saved as base64 strings. It's terrible for that use. appCache had some Apis in existing proposals for programatically adding items. I don't know if

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:51 PM, ashok malhotra wrote: > But we should give it a try, no? > The spec are still Working Drafts. The status in the W3C Process is largely irrelevant when determining if the web depends on something. ~TJ

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread ashok malhotra
But we should give it a try, no? The spec are still Working Drafts. All the best, Ashok On 11/15/2011 2:47 PM, Adam Barth wrote: These APIs are quite widely used on the web. It seems unlikely that we'll be able to delete either of them in favor of a single facility. Adam On Tue, Nov 15, 2011

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Glenn Adams
Could you quantify "widely"? On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > These APIs are quite widely used on the web. It seems unlikely that > we'll be able to delete either of them in favor of a single facility. > > Adam > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Noah Mendelsohn > wrote:

Re: TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Adam Barth
These APIs are quite widely used on the web. It seems unlikely that we'll be able to delete either of them in favor of a single facility. Adam On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > This is a comment from the W3C Technical Architecture Group on the last call > working draft:

TAG Comment on Web Storage

2011-11-15 Thread Noah Mendelsohn
Sorry I messed up the subject of the first copy of this note. (I was checking to make sure I got the title of the working draft right, put it in the body of the note, and forgot the subject line). Please accept my apologies...the risks of working in a hurry while running out the door. Noah On

TAG Comment on

2011-11-15 Thread Noah Mendelsohn
This is a comment from the W3C Technical Architecture Group on the last call working draft: "Web Storage" [1]. The HTML5 Application Cache (AppCache) [2] and Local Storage [1] both provide client-side storage that can be used by Web Applications. Although the interfaces are different (AppCache