Re: [webkit-dev] JavaScriptCore and ES6

2011-12-15 Thread Brendan Eich
As you probably know, the ECMA TC39 committee is slowly approaching consensus on a new revision of the ECMAScript language. The interim results of this process have gone under various names: Harmony, ES.next, and ES6. They are the same thing. Hi Andy, one nit to pick: Harmony is the full

Re: [webkit-dev] JavaScriptCore and ES6

2011-12-16 Thread Brendan Eich
On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:24 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: In general I think versioning is a bad idea, but out-of-band is even worse. ES.next is going to have a use version 6; in-band pragma. /be ___ webkit-dev mailing list

Re: [webkit-dev] (no subject)

2012-04-29 Thread Brendan Eich
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Ryosuke Niwarn...@webkit.org wrote: I'm actually curious as to how the session participants reached this consensus (probably on a separate thread). It seems like the bar shouldn't too high for removing prefixed APIs when they are

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_NAVIGATOR_BUILDTYPE to WebCore

2012-06-07 Thread Brendan Eich
Adam Barth wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ryosuke Niwarn...@webkit.org wrote: What is the rationale for adding this property on the navigator object instead of the chrome object we also expose if your'e not expecting this property to be ever standarized? Generally, we avoid

Re: [webkit-dev] new -webkit-user-select value: atomic

2012-07-23 Thread Brendan Eich
Alice Cheng wrote: Could you elaborate more on the difference? Maybe the difference is small enough that it makes sense to reuse all. e.g. Mozilla might be willing to change their behavior for all. Mozilla is not selecting atomically using shift + right. It also does not select atomically

Re: [webkit-dev] Improving DOM Exception console messages.

2012-10-01 Thread Brendan Eich
Ojan Vafai wrote: This isn't spec'ed anywhere. I agree it would be ideal to get a spec for this, but I don't think we need to block on that in this instance. This is an area where browsers are completely incompatible already. I don't see much benefit from blocking on creating a specification

Re: [webkit-dev] Improving DOM Exception console messages.

2012-10-01 Thread Brendan Eich
Ryosuke Niwa wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org mailto:o...@chromium.org wrote: This is an area where browsers are completely incompatible already. I don't see much benefit from blocking on creating a specification to make this situation better for

Re: [webkit-dev] …Inlines.h vs …InlineMethods.h

2012-11-05 Thread Brendan Eich
Geoffrey Garen wrote: The proposed design requires adding a FooInlines.h include to source files that use that function, when any function moves into FooInlines.h. This can happen any time a function is made inline or when a short inline function gets longer. You convinced me; I hadn't

Re: [webkit-dev] …Inlines.h vs …InlineMethods.h

2012-11-05 Thread Brendan Eich
Filip Pizlo wrote: On Nov 5, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Brendan Eichbren...@mozilla.org wrote: Implementation vs. interface distinctions can be fuzzy, but we've found it helpful to use this as a razor when shaving header files with inlines, before compile errors or compile time problems bite. I

Re: [webkit-dev] RenderArena: Teaching an old dog new tricks

2012-11-13 Thread Brendan Eich
Eric Seidel wrote: However, like those bell-bottoms in your father's closet, RenderArena is back in vogue and Chromium's security team very excited about RenderArena's security benefits. Disco, like the drive-in, will never die.

Re: [webkit-dev] Feature Request: Dynamic Application Cache

2012-11-17 Thread Brendan Eich
Brady Eidson wrote: On Nov 17, 2012, at 7:47 AM, sridharnsridhar.ndr...@gmail.com wrote: Any updates / plans for this feature ?? What feature? Sridharn did not cite context, but his message is in the thread whose head is this post:

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding main element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Brendan Eich
I'm stunned that people are arguing this on webkit-dev. Just FYI, Mozillians with whom I have spoken generally agree that main does not meet the high bar required to add a new element to HTML. Shopping a patch to implementors, to get something into a standard spec by asserting de-facto

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding main element to WebCore

2012-11-28 Thread Brendan Eich
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: [*] If Mozilla on the whole is agains adding this feature, that is relevant new information. Mozilla as a whole does not often take definitive pro/con positions on things like main. So I polled a few w3 Mozilla regulars, including dbaron, tantek, dbolter. We