[DOM4] Constructor for DOMException?

2012-02-21 Thread Marcos Caceres
Hi, I'm currently trying to implement a spec using ECMAScript. Unfortunately, I have a bunch of DOMExceptions that can't be thrown cleanly because there is no way to instantiate a DOMException through ECMAScript (new DOMException(...) returns a TypeError: Illegal constructor in browsers).

RfC: Timing control for script-based animations Last Call; deadline March 20

2012-02-21 Thread Arthur Barstow
WebApps has been asked to submit comments for the Timing control for script-based animations LCWD: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-animation-timing-20120221/ Individual WG members are encouraged to provide individual feedback directly to the Web Performance WG. If you have comments, please

Re: (aside) MIME type

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Lilley
On Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7:02:45 PM, Anne wrote: AvK On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:47:08 +0100, Paul Libbrecht p...@hoplahup.net AvK wrote: Well, I think it's the duty of the W3C to use the vocabulary of the people that define this kind of thing. AvK FWIW, the duty of the W3C is to bring the

Re: (aside) MIME type

2012-02-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Chris Lilley ch...@w3.org wrote: So just call it 'Internet Media Type' like the IETF and IANA do, and quit quibbling. An informative aside (previously called MIME type) can be added for folks not up to speed. That would be incorrect. It's still called the

Re: (aside) MIME type

2012-02-21 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Mark Baker wrote: I wish they did, consistently. See RFC 4288 (just media type) and the registry itself (MIME media type) http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html. Plus they're still routinely referred to as MIME types in many IETF contexts, including the ietf-types list!

Re: [IndexedDB] Transactions during window.unload?

2012-02-21 Thread Joshua Bell
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Joshua Bell jsb...@chromium.org wrote: In a page utilizing Indexed DB, what should the expected behavior be for an IDBTransaction created during the window.onunload event callback? e.g. window.onunload = function () { var transaction =

Re: [DOM4] Constructor for DOMException?

2012-02-21 Thread Cameron McCormack
Marcos Caceres: So… given that one can fake create a DOMException, and unless there is a valid reason not to allow this that I don't know of…. It would be nice if DOMException just defined a public constructor. This would allow clean prototyping of various APIs in ECMAScript (and give us poor

[Bug 16070] New: uses MessageEvent but doesn't define or reference external definition

2012-02-21 Thread bugzilla
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16070 Summary: uses MessageEvent but doesn't define or reference external definition Product: WebAppsWG Version: unspecified Platform: All URL:

[testsuites] WebSocket support on w3c-test.org

2012-02-21 Thread Michael[tm] Smith
We now have initial WebSocket server support set up on w3c-test.org. Simple demo here: http://w3c-test.org/demo/console.html The server support uses pywebsocket, so if you have server components of WebSocket test cases written in Python, we can host them under http://www.w3c-test.org/ws/ If