Re: [whatwg] Persistent SharedWorkers

2009-03-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Drew Wilson wrote on 06/03/09 23:39: ... - Worker UI: From the worker standpoint, the main difference between a PersistentWorker and other types of workers is that the normal way of interacting with the user (via an open browser window) is not available, since there may be no windows open to

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread David Singer
At 3:22 +0100 10/03/09, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: That format has some serious limitations for heavy metadata users. In particular for those who are producing information about historical objects, from British Parliamentary records to histories of pre-communist Russia or China to museum

Re: [whatwg] URL encoding for XHR and Workers.

2009-03-10 Thread Dmitry Titov
Filed a bug on URL encoding, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482388 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Dmitry Titov dim...@chromium.org wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions about Web Workers and text encoding

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Jim O'Donnell
Hi David, On 10 Mar 2009, at 17:03, David Singer wrote: The trouble is, that opens a large can of worms. Once we step out of the Gregorian calendar, we'll get questions about various other calendar systems (e.g. Roman ab urbe condita http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita,

Re: [whatwg] Persistent SharedWorkers

2009-03-10 Thread Drew Wilson
Thanks for the info - I wasn't aware of the new Ubuntu notification infrastructure. Notes below: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@myrealbox.comwrote: Speaking for Ubuntu, we are making active efforts to reduce the number of elements in the notification area (aka

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message cc3986d1-6ddc-4007-8bba-42a5d4e39...@eatyourgreens.org.uk, Jim O'Donnell j...@eatyourgreens.org.uk writes This is already a solved problem in the Text Encoding Intiative (TEI). The value of a date/time is encoded in the Gregorian calendar, using ISO8601. The calendar attribute is

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message 20090309215532.ga3...@stripey.com, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com writes Tom Duhamel writes: My opinion is that all the following dates are precise: 2009 2009-03 2009-03-09 The later is more precise, but the three are all precise in my opinion. Being precise means having a small

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Toby A Inkster
This seems to provide a good use case for a couple of RDFa attributes: time xmlns:d=http://dbpedia.org/resource/; datatype=d:Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar content=12.19.16.2.18 13 Etz'nab' 1 Kumk'u/time Adopting RDFa in HTML5 not only gives us a technique for embedding

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: How widely - compared to Julian dates - are those published, in the wild? You might be tending towards 'Reductio ad absurdum'. There are definitely many non-Julian/Gregorian calendar systems used in the wild.

[whatwg] Profiles in-the-wild (was: Microformats, WebApps 1.0 and UI widgets in browsers)

2009-03-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message hb0sf5+2xbwff...@pigsonthewing.org.uk, in February 2007, I wrote: In message 8434a459-7c78-42f8-bef6-98e6f0a5d...@w3.org, Karl Dubost k...@w3.org writes I think there is a possible win-win here. The Mozilla UI widget could be activated only when the right URI (profile attribute) is

[whatwg] Coordinates and measurements in HTML5

2009-03-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message zxed4ttdzyojf...@pigsonthewing.org.uk, I wrote: Another abuse of ABBR in microformats for coordinates: abbr class=geo title=52.548;-1.932Great Barr/abbr Bruce and I agree that this could be resolved, and HTML5 usefully extended, by a “location element: location

Re: [whatwg] time

2009-03-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:03:37 +0100, David Singer sin...@apple.com wrote: At 3:22 +0100 10/03/09, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: That format has some serious limitations for heavy metadata users. In particular for those who are producing information about historical objects, from British

[whatwg] Proposal for enhancing postMessage

2009-03-10 Thread Mark S. Miller
Posted first at public-html-comments, but that list seems silent. I have received suggestions to repost here. Message 1 of 2, from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2009Mar/0001.html: Currently, HTML5's postMessage may transfer some amount of data in the message, and up to

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for enhancing postMessage

2009-03-10 Thread Mark S. Miller
Message 2 of 2, from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2009Mar/0002.html: To be concrete about it, I am a member of the Caja team, which is building an object-capability subset of JavaScript by translation to JavaScript. Currently, Caja brings object-capabilities only to