Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> We can't generically block on children since we can't let the main >> window block on a child. That would effectively permit synchronous IO >> from the main thread which is not someth

Re: Should MutationObservers be able to observe work done by the HTML parser?

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Elliott Sprehn wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: ... >>... >> >> But I'm also not very worried about small diff

Standards for Web applications on mobile devices: August 2012 updates

2012-09-05 Thread Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Hi all, The time of my quarterly release of “Standards for Web Applications on Mobile” has come again; the August 2012 edition of the document is now available at: http://www.w3.org/2012/08/mobile-web-app-state/ I have also created a URI where the latest version of that document will be available

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > The current draft of XHR2 doesn't allow clients to set the UA header. > Presumably, by "clients" you mean client-side script, and not "the [client] implementation of the UA". > > That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA

Social Networking and Elections

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Sobieski
Web Applications Working Group, Greetings. In a 2010 Scientific American article, Tim Berners-Lee indicated some concerns about social networking websites. Concerns were expressed about social networking websites which were described as "walled gardens". Concerns indicated included that socia

Please don't SPAM our mail list [Was: Re: Social Networking and Elections]

2012-09-05 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 9/5/12 11:16 AM, ext Adam Sobieski wrote: Web Applications Working Group, The subject matter of this mail list is the WG's specifications. Please use this list accordingly. If anyone wants to reply to Adam's e-mail, please use some other mail list (such as www-t...@w3.org). -Thanks, AB

Re: [IndexedDB] blocked event could be an error

2012-09-05 Thread Odin Hørthe Omdal
David Grogan wrote: Odin wrote: Also, there's a much bigger chance of developers listening to error on the opening page, rather than blocked. +1. Replacing "blocked" event with an "error" event named BlockedError would be an improvement. I did this. Proposed patch to the spec is here:

RE: Please don't SPAM our mail list [Was: Re: Social Networking and Elections]

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Sobieski
Art Barstow, Thank you for indicating the www-t...@w3.org mailing list. I have forwarded my email to that mailing list. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:47:21 -0400 > From: art.bars...@nokia.com > To: adamsobie...@hotmail.com > CC: public-webapps@w3.org > Subject: Please d

Re: [IndexedDB] blocked event could be an error

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Odin Hørthe Omdal wrote: > David Grogan wrote: > >> Odin wrote: >>> >>> Also, there's a much bigger chance of developers listening to error on >>> the opening page, rather than blocked. >> >> >> +1. Replacing "blocked" event with an "error" event named BlockedError

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Importantly, the sending side >> doesn't have to know whether the receiving side is using a sync API to >> receive it or not--in other words, that information doesn't have to be part >> of the user's messaging protocol. > > I agree that this

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > [Constructor] > interface MessageChannel { > readonly attribute MessagePortSyncSide syncPort; > readonly attribute MessagePortAsyncSide asyncPort; > }; This should of course say SyncMessageChannel. / Jonas

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > The problem with a "Only allow blocking on children, except that > window can't block on its children" is that you can never block on a > computation which is implemented in the main thread. I think that cuts > out some major use cases since

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> The problem with a "Only allow blocking on children, except that >> window can't block on its children" is that you can never block on a >> computation which is implemented in the mai

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: > On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: The problem with a "Only allow blocking on children, except

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: The problem with a "Only allow bloc

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/06/2012 09:30 AM, Olli Pettay wrote: On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking w

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Olli Pettay wrote: > On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: >>> >>> On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > >>>

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/06/2012 09:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Olli Pettay wrote: On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard