TPAC f2f 29/30 oct: attendance / remote dial-in

2012-08-29 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
Hi, please remember to register for TPAC[1]. If you are a member of the group, please say you are attending as a member, and then do not say you will also attend as an observer. If you would like to dial in, please let the chairs and staff contacts know, and say which topics you would

[WebIDL] A new way to define UnionTypes

2012-08-29 Thread Andrei Bucur
Hi! I was wondering if it would make sense to use supplemental interfaces as a way to generate union types, like in this example: X implements S Y implements S Z implements S interface someInterface { NewSyntaxGeneratingUnionTypeFrom(S) someMethod(); } The example assumes the user agent

Re: [WebIDL] A new way to define UnionTypes

2012-08-29 Thread Adam Barth
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 8/29/12 7:59 AM, Andrei Bucur wrote: I was wondering if it would make sense to use supplemental interfaces as a way to generate union types, like in this example: X implements S Y implements S Z implements S

Re: [WebIDL] A new way to define UnionTypes

2012-08-29 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 8/29/12 12:06 PM, Adam Barth wrote: It's not impossible in IDL. In fact, it's remarkably easy to define in IDL. We just don't want to implement multi-inheritance in WebKit because it's slow. However, I don't see how Andrei's proposal makes the implementation any more efficient. Well,

RE: [WebIDL] A new way to define UnionTypes

2012-08-29 Thread Andrei Bucur
It's not impossible in IDL. In fact, it's remarkably easy to define in IDL. We just don't want to implement multi-inheritance in WebKit because it's slow. However, I don't see how Andrei's proposal makes the implementation any more efficient. The proposal tries to reduce the issue this

Re: [WebIDL] A new way to define UnionTypes

2012-08-29 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 8/29/12 12:40 PM, Andrei Bucur wrote: It's not impossible in IDL. In fact, it's remarkably easy to define in IDL. We just don't want to implement multi-inheritance in WebKit because it's slow. However, I don't see how Andrei's proposal makes the implementation any more efficient. The

Re: [WebIDL] A new way to define UnionTypes

2012-08-29 Thread Adam Barth
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 8/29/12 12:40 PM, Andrei Bucur wrote: It's not impossible in IDL. In fact, it's remarkably easy to define in IDL. We just don't want to implement multi-inheritance in WebKit because it's slow. However, I don't see

[Bug 18623] Editorial issues: Clarify CLOSING, capitalize websocket, add anchor to reason attribute

2012-08-29 Thread bugzilla
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18623 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson i...@hixie.ch changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED

Editor's draft created of DOM Parsing and Serialization Spec

2012-08-29 Thread Travis Leithead
Folks, following up on my action item from TPAC 2011 (yeah, I know...), the DOM Parsing and Serialization Editor's Draft specification has been created! http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/innerhtml/raw-file/tip/index.html A list of active bugs against the spec are being maintained against this component in