Re: [whatwg] Multiple file download

2010-03-10 Thread timeless
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Jose Fandos iaminlon...@gmail.com wrote: Er... sure. It is not as convenient for certain web apps when compared to desktop apps. With this supported, the gap get's reduced. Adding support for tar (and all of its variations) involves adding extra code, testing,

Re: [whatwg] Structured clone algorithm a little too friendly?

2010-03-10 Thread timeless
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:50 AM, ben turner b...@mozilla.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm implementing the structured clone algorithm and this part bothers me a little bit:  - If input is a host object (e.g. a DOM node)      Return the null value. Seems like this has the potential to confuse web

Re: [whatwg] prompts, alerts and showModalDialog during beforeunload/unload events

2010-03-10 Thread timeless
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Browsers could solve the editor use case by treating close tab as hide tab for a minute or two before actually shutting down the page. Firefox today has undo close tab. And people have joked for years about undo quit application

Re: [whatwg] Video source selection based on quality

2010-03-10 Thread timeless
David Singer wrote: I am by no means convinced that automatic selection of sources other than that based on the most obvious, automated, criteria, is wise or needed.  We have had for many years, in QuickTime, this facility, and quite a few sites opted not to use it and allow the user a manual

Re: [whatwg] Script-invokable copy action

2010-03-10 Thread timeless
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:37 AM, wha...@alanhogan.com wrote: I personally would like to see a cross-browser way to invoke a copy-to-clipboard command without using any drag-and-drop APIs. I understand access to the clipboard is sensitive. I call for user agents to respond to a JavaScript

Re: [whatwg] Window id - a proposal to leverage session usage in web application

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote: About half a year ago I came up with an idea to add a unique window id as request header to each browser request. I published this initially on my website http://www.laliluna.de/blog/2009/05/19/browser_feature_request.html The best way to

Re: [whatwg] Making cross-domain overlays more user-friendly

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Rowan Nairn wrote: In the spirit of paving some cow paths I'd like to put forward a proposal for a future version of HTML. The behavior I'm addressing is sites that replace links to external content with a framed version of that content, along with their own overlay

Re: [whatwg] XSS safe templating

2010-03-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
Mike Samuel mikesam...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with EcmaScript TC39 trying to allow for experimentation with new content generation techniques in JavaScript. There's one missing piece which would let template language authors experiment with varying degrees of XSS-safety, and I was

Re: [whatwg] Window id - a proposal to leverage session usage in web application

2010-03-10 Thread Sebastian Hennebrueder
Ian Hickson schrieb: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote: About half a year ago I came up with an idea to add a unique window id as request header to each browser request. I published this initially on my website http://www.laliluna.de/blog/2009/05/19/browser_feature_request.html

[whatwg] Storage quota introspection and modification

2010-03-10 Thread イアンフェッティ
As I talk with more application developers (both within Google and at large), one thing that consistently gets pointed out to me as a problem is the notion of the opaqueness of storage quotas in all of the new storage mechanisms (Local Storage, Web SQL Database, Web Indexed Database, the

Re: [whatwg] Storage quota introspection and modification

2010-03-10 Thread Jeremy Orlow
2010/3/10 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com As I talk with more application developers (both within Google and at large), one thing that consistently gets pointed out to me as a problem is the notion of the opaqueness of storage quotas in all of the new storage mechanisms (Local Storage,

Re: [whatwg] Storage quota introspection and modification

2010-03-10 Thread Diogo Resende
Agree 100% (even with geolocation). On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 07:54 -0800, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote: As I talk with more application developers (both within Google and at large), one thing that consistently gets pointed out to me as a problem is the notion of the opaqueness of storage quotas in

Re: [whatwg] XSS safe templating

2010-03-10 Thread Mike Samuel
2010/3/10 Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi: Mike Samuel mikesam...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with EcmaScript TC39 trying to allow for experimentation with new content generation techniques in JavaScript. There's one missing piece which would let template language authors experiment with

Re: [whatwg] Multiple file download

2010-03-10 Thread Eric Uhrhane
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Jose Fandos iaminlon...@gmail.com wrote: Er... sure. It is not as convenient for certain web apps when compared to desktop apps. With this supported, the gap get's reduced. Adding support for

Re: [whatwg] XSS safe templating

2010-03-10 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 3/10/10 12:45 PM, Mike Samuel wrote: FWIW, in Gecko currently, the stringification happens a few abstraction layers away from the parser, so implementing your suggestion would involve punching holes in those abstractions. Ah, so there's a layer that sits between the XPCOM object and the

Re: [whatwg] Multiple file download

2010-03-10 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 3/10/10 12:51 PM, Eric Uhrhane wrote: the zip format is fairly streaming friendly, the directory is at the end of the file. And if you're actually generating a file which has so many records that you can't remember all of them, you're probably trying to attack my user agent, so I'm quite

Re: [whatwg] XSS safe templating

2010-03-10 Thread Mike Samuel
Hmm. It occurs to me that many libraries -- at least jQuery and prototype have their own layers in between their users and the DOM. When I cooked up this scheme, I didn't know how likely proxies and ephemeron tables were to make it into ES Harmony, but I think Andreas Gal just implemented (both?

Re: [whatwg] Multiple file download

2010-03-10 Thread Philip Taylor
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Eric Uhrhane er...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT V. General Format of a .ZIP file the zip format is fairly streaming friendly, the directory is at

Re: [whatwg] Storage quota introspection and modification

2010-03-10 Thread Scott Hess
2010/3/10 Jeremy Orlow jor...@chromium.org: 2010/3/10 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com As I talk with more application developers (both within Google and at large), one thing that consistently gets pointed out to me as a problem is the notion of the opaqueness of storage quotas in all of

Re: [whatwg] Storage quota introspection and modification

2010-03-10 Thread Mike Shaver
2010/3/10 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) ife...@google.com: As I talk with more application developers (both within Google and at large), one thing that consistently gets pointed out to me as a problem is the notion of the opaqueness of storage quotas in all of the new storage mechanisms (Local Storage,

Re: [whatwg] URN or protocol attribute

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Brett Zamir wrote: Internet Explorer has an attribute on anchor elements for URNs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534710%28VS.85%29.aspx This has not caught on in other browsers, though I believe it could be a very powerful feature once the feature was

Re: [whatwg] URN or protocol attribute

2010-03-10 Thread Brett Zamir
On 3/11/2010 9:19 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Brett Zamir wrote: Internet Explorer has an attribute on anchor elements for URNs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534710%28VS.85%29.aspx This has not caught on in other browsers, though I believe it could be a very

Re: [whatwg] URN or protocol attribute

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Brett Zamir wrote: Is there really a need for a more dedicated mechanism? It's not clear that there is much pent-up demand for this. There wasn't a lot of pent up demand for the web itself either (why would people or companies want to link to other people's

Re: [whatwg] % text % and ? text ? in corporate intranet html content

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Biju wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: At least in one page I saw, which was Case 1 and page was originally from a JSP or ASP template later modified and saved as a *.html I recommend fixing the page. :-) Hey, this is

Re: [whatwg] URN or protocol attribute

2010-03-10 Thread Brett Zamir
On 3/11/2010 10:31 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Brett Zamir wrote: Is there really a need for a more dedicated mechanism? It's not clear that there is much pent-up demand for this. There wasn't a lot of pent up demand for the web itself either (why would people or

Re: [whatwg] prompts, alerts and showModalDialog during beforeunload/unload events

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Ojan Vafai wrote: Currently, modal dialogs that fire during beforeunload/unload events are used to confuse users into not being able to leave websites (e.g. to tell the user to click on the wrong button for in the browser's beforeunload alert dialog). They also add a