Re: Handling too few arguments in method calls

2009-06-26 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Cameron McCormackc...@mcc.id.au wrote: Darin Adler: What about too many arguments, and ignoring extra ones? Is that settled? It seems consistent with current implementations to ignore extra arguments.  That approach might go against the desire to maximise the

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Berjon
On Jun 26, 2009, at 07:49 , Maciej Stachowiak wrote: It's also not clear to me if a BDB-level API is sufficient for developer needs. That's something that we should nail down early this time around. I tend to think that sufficient for developer needs means good enough that one can

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:43 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I strongly agree on these points. I would prefer to see SQL Storage split out of the rest of Web Storage. We seem to have rough consensus and strong multilateral implementor interest on LocalStorage and

Berkeley DB (was: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Doug Schepers
Hi, Maciej- Maciej Stachowiak wrote (on 6/26/09 1:49 AM): As a side note, it should be noted Berkeley DB itself could not be used by WebKit or Gecko to implement the spec, because even though it is open source, the license is not compatible with the LGPL. It seems unlikely that non-open-source

Re: Berkeley DB (was: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Doug Schepersschep...@w3.org wrote: Hi, Maciej- Maciej Stachowiak wrote (on 6/26/09 1:49 AM): As a side note, it should be noted Berkeley DB itself could not be used by WebKit or Gecko to implement the spec, because even though it is open source, the

RE: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Marcin Hanclik
+1 Stable specification moving faster in the standards track will definitely bring more implementations. Marcin Hanclik ACCESS Systems Germany GmbH Tel: +49-208-8290-6452 | Fax: +49-208-8290-6465 Mobile: +49-163-8290-646 E-Mail: marcin.hanc...@access-company.com -Original Message-

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Doug Schepers wrote: The plan of record would be to split out the SQL Storage section into its own spec, with an alternate spec edited by Nikunj, and to publish an updated draft of Web Storage that points to both those other drafts. This way, all parts of the web

RE: [WebIDL] Callback, PropertyOnly, NoInterfaceObject

2009-06-26 Thread Marcin Hanclik
Hi Cameron, Thank for your comments. It is clear now. I’ll probably loosen the IDL grammar to allow sequences of square-bracketed extended attributes instead of requiring them to be all in one, but for now you do need to have them all in one, comma separated. As for me it is not necessary to

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:23 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:43 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I strongly agree on these points. I would prefer to see SQL Storage split out of the rest of Web Storage. We seem to have rough consensus and strong

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Berjon
On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:54 , Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I don't think the Web Storage draft (I assume by this you mean the remaining draft that would define LocalStorage and SessionStorage) needs to link to either of the other drafts. It is customary, when something is split out of a draft, to

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:43:10 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:23 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: FWIW, Opera is implementing SQL storage too. That's great news! Having multiple independent implementations will, I hope, provide more reason to advance the

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:09:43 +0200, Marcin Hanclik marcin.hanc...@access-company.com wrote: +1 Stable specification moving faster in the standards track will definitely bring more implementations. To be clear, when we decided to implement this feature it was still part of the HTML5

RE: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Marcin Hanclik
Where it is specified did not really have an impact on whether we would do it or not. Agreed. The place does not matter. Stability does, IMHO. I would also be somewhat hesitant to say that separate drafts necessarily move faster. At least there is a chance. It seems more feasible to implement a

Re: [widgets] dig sig RelaxNG schema

2009-06-26 Thread Kai Hendry
Woops. The validator error messages go away when the ... are removed from the DigestValues. http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig/#example Attached is a signature1.xml template which validates to http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/Drafts/xmldsig-rngschema/ with rnv for me at least. :) ?xml version=1.0

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
Please don't skimp on due diligence before making such strong statements. It creates unnecessary friction. More details below. On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Nikunj R.

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: I think Nikunj's proposal definitely is worthy of being persued, just like the working group is persuing dozens of other proposals like XHR, CORS, Selectors API, Workers,

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Nikunj R. Mehtanikunj.me...@oracle.com wrote: On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: I have proposed to Mozilla a solution that provides access to an organized key-value database such as that

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:15 AM, Robin Berjon wrote: On Jun 26, 2009, at 07:49 , Maciej Stachowiak wrote: It's also not clear to me if a BDB-level API is sufficient for developer needs. That's something that we should nail down early this time around. I tend to think that sufficient for

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: Hi, Folks- Maciej Stachowiak wrote (on 6/25/09 7:20 PM): On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: I think Nikunj's proposal definitely is worthy of being persued, just like the working group is persuing dozens of other proposals

Re: Berkeley DB (was: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Doug Schepersschep...@w3.org wrote: Hi, Maciej- Maciej Stachowiak wrote (on 6/26/09 1:49 AM): As a side note, it should be noted Berkeley DB itself could not be used by WebKit or Gecko to implement the

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Nikunj R. Mehta nikunj.me...@oracle.com wrote: Please don't skimp on due diligence before making such strong statements. It creates unnecessary friction. More details below. Similarly, I'd ask you to make

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Nikunj R. Mehtanikunj.me...@oracle.com wrote: As a side note, it should be noted Berkeley DB itself could not be used by WebKit or Gecko to implement the spec, because even though it is open source, the license is not compatible with the LGPL. It seems unlikely

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2009-06-26 11:27 -0700, Jonas Sicking wrote: Note that mozilla has since long made a commitment not to ship code that is not compatible with all of GPL, LGPL *and* MPL. So unless the BDB license is compatible with all those three we couldn't use BDB. I think our (Mozilla's)

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: As a side note, it should be noted Berkeley DB itself could not be used by WebKit or Gecko to implement the spec, because even though it is open source, the license is not compatible with the LGPL. It seems unlikely that

Re: XHR and sandboxed iframes (was: Re: XHR without user credentials)

2009-06-26 Thread Tyler Close
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Mark S. Miller wrote: I don't really understand what we're trying to prevent here. Confused deputies such as XSRF problems. Original paper is at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ConfusedDeputy.html.

Berkeley DB license (was Re: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
Maciej, David, Jeremy, Doug, others, I understand the interest in using Berkeley DB in browsers provided appropriate licensing freedom were available. I am beginning to understand your concerns vis-à-vis Berkeley DB's license. I have asked our legal team to clarify what they mean by the

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
I have a tutorial available to understand how one can use Berkeley DB to store data with multiple fields [1]. If you are only interested in understanding how to do look up by one or more of them, please skip to slide 51. If this doesn't help, I can write up another explanation for the

Re: Berkeley DB license (was Re: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2009-06-26 15:27 -0700, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: I understand the interest in using Berkeley DB in browsers provided appropriate licensing freedom were available. I am beginning to understand your concerns vis-à-vis Berkeley DB's license. To be clear, I wasn't expressing any

Re: XHR and sandboxed iframes (was: Re: XHR without user credentials)

2009-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Tyler Close wrote: Consider two web-applications: photo.example.com, a photo manager; and printer.example.net, a photo printer. Both of these web-apps use storage provided by storage.example.org. We're going to print a photo stored at:

Re: Berkeley DB license (was Re: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nikunj R. Mehtanikunj.me...@oracle.com wrote: FWIW, I came across two pieces about Oracle's open source licensing of Berkeley DB that might help clear the air around the licensing issues. First, Oracle's license [1] is word-for-word identical to the erstwhile

Re: Berkeley DB license (was Re: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:40 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Friday 2009-06-26 15:27 -0700, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: I understand the interest in using Berkeley DB in browsers provided appropriate licensing freedom were available. I am beginning to understand your concerns vis-à-vis Berkeley DB's

Re: XHR and sandboxed iframes (was: Re: XHR without user credentials)

2009-06-26 Thread Tyler Close
Response inline below, so keep scrolling... On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Tyler Close wrote: Consider two web-applications: photo.example.com, a photo manager; and printer.example.net, a photo printer. Both of these web-apps use storage

Re: Berkeley DB license (was Re: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Jun 26, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:40 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Friday 2009-06-26 15:27 -0700, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: I understand the interest in using Berkeley DB in browsers provided appropriate licensing freedom were available. I am beginning

Re: Berkeley DB license (was Re: Points of order on this WG)

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: FWIW, I came across two pieces about Oracle's open source licensing of Berkeley DB that might help clear the air around the licensing issues. First, Oracle's license [1] is word-for-word identical to the erstwhile SleepyCat license

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: Secondly, Oracle proposes adding request interception and programmable http cache to the WG's charter. Oracle will provide resources for editing and reviewing proposals for all three deliverables. We already have a broad charter and

Re: Points of order on this WG

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: I have a tutorial available to understand how one can use Berkeley DB to store data with multiple fields [1]. If you are only interested in understanding how to do look up by one or more of them, please skip to slide 51. If this

Re: Handling too few arguments in method calls

2009-06-26 Thread Cameron McCormack
Jonas Sicking: Yeah, ideally I would want to treat too many arguments the same as too few. However I'm more concerned about breaking existing content here if all commonly used UAs consistently ignore them. I would be willing to give it a try though, or at least once I've checked with the

Re: XHR and sandboxed iframes (was: Re: XHR without user credentials)

2009-06-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Tyler Close wrote: I don't understand why photo.example.com would trust the identifier from printer.example.net if the latter could be in the same namespace as the namespace photo.example.com uses for its own data. Are you saying the two web-apps should not be

Re: [WebIDL] module in ECMAScript

2009-06-26 Thread Cameron McCormack
Marcin Hanclik: A correction / question to what I stated below: window.bondi – “namespace object” for ::bondi In BONDI we did not foresee that. We would like bondi to be the root. Which of the following do you foresee to exist: 1. window.bondi.* only 2. bondi.* only 3. both from the