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

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Russell
My object is somewhat different. I think it's useful for the readability use-case (and the other proposed solutions are mostly bad jokes), but it doesn't strike me that this give you much default UI and doesn't plumb through any new low-level capability. In that vein, I wonder why it's not being

Re: [webkit-dev] New feature flag proposal: Joystick API

2011-08-24 Thread Alex Russell
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Scott Graham scot...@chromium.org wrote: Hi, I wanted to let everyone know that I propose to add a new feature flag, JOYSTICK. http://webkit.org/b/66859 This flag will enable an API and events for accessing joysticks and related devices. There's a prototype

Re: [webkit-dev] Shadow DOM API (first iteration) ready for landing

2011-06-30 Thread Alex Russell
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:22 PM, John J. Barton johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com wrote: From: Alex Russell slightly...@chromium.org We observe that web developers are attempting to use DOM in both structural (semantic or component-oriented) and visual ways inside the same document. I would

Re: [webkit-dev] Shadow DOM API (first iteration) ready for landing

2011-06-29 Thread Alex Russell
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Geoffrey Garen gga...@apple.com wrote: On Jun 28, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Geoffrey Garen gga...@apple.com wrote: Hi Dmitri. Since this is an experimental API, here are the actual API names we want to

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CONTACTS to WebCore

2011-06-28 Thread Alex Russell
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org wrote: Can you give an example of a smooth UI that you'd need the more complex API for? When I think of the existing mail and chat apps in iOS/Android that I've use, input type=contacts could give just as smooth a UI as the

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CONTACTS to WebCore

2011-06-27 Thread Alex Russell
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org wrote: Is there a document that lists the use-cases for this API? I couldn't find anything from a quick glance through the DAP working group's mailing list archive. A list of use-cases would help evaluate whether this is the best

Re: [webkit-dev] webkit editing rewrite?

2010-08-04 Thread Alex Russell
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Geoffrey Garen gga...@apple.com wrote: Some of us had a somewhat crazy idea to rewrite much of the editing code (e.g. document.execCommand) in JavaScript. Pros: -Ensures that the APIs we expose to the web are at least good enough for our own editing code

Re: [webkit-dev] MD5 in WebCore

2010-04-20 Thread Alex Russell
Hate to ask a dumb question, but why MD5? Isn't it on its last legs as a secure hash? New protocols should be avoiding it. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Michael Nordman micha...@google.com wrote: In webcore, should we use the same impl on all platforms rather than use cryptdll on windows

Re: [webkit-dev] Join the URL hackathon (already in progress)!

2010-04-14 Thread Alex Russell
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:39 PM, David Levin le...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Adam Barth aba...@webkit.org wrote: Ah, sorry, I meant to the point where the library was integrated with the various build systems, etc.  Maybe that's already possible today. I haven't

Re: [webkit-dev] Making browsers faster: Resource Packages

2009-11-17 Thread Alex Russell
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM, James Robinson jam...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Alexander Limi l...@mozilla.com wrote: Good people of Webkit! We'd all like for the web to be faster, and therefore I'd love your feedback on my proposal — it would be great to see

Re: [webkit-dev] Implementation thoughts on HTML5 elements

2009-08-26 Thread Alex Russell
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Ojan Vafaio...@chromium.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Hi everyone, Recently at Apple we've been considering our plans to implement new HTML

Re: [webkit-dev] Implementation thoughts on HTML5 elements

2009-08-26 Thread Alex Russell
Lots of stuff on the web is best-effort, particularly when system integration is the point. I'm not sure that saying the experience will be different changes what semantics should be available to authors in any way. Regards On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote:

[webkit-dev] parallel layout research

2009-07-31 Thread Alex Russell
After a discussion this morning about the potential for parallel CSS layout with Erik Aarvidson, he pointed out a group at Berkeley doing research in this area: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/pbrowser/ The bits that jumped out to me were: * the source is available [0]

Re: [webkit-dev] Need help in understanding how webkit handles clicks event

2009-01-28 Thread Alex Russell
The PDF handling stuff is related to a mimetype filter. The web server sends a particular mime type along with each document, and if it's not something that the browser knows how to deal with directly, it'll interrogate all of its plugins to see if they want to handle it. When plugins are