[whatwg] dashed lines on canvas

2008-02-08 Thread Scott Graham
Hi I'd like to add a vote for supporting dashed lines to strokes. I'm implementing a canvas-targeting renderer for PyX (http://pyx.sourceforge.net). The vast majority of the functionality maps very well (as PyX is originally targeted to PS/PDF), but attempting to emulate dashed lines is very

[whatwg] SQL storage and onunload

2008-02-08 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
It seems to be a natural idea to save Web application state from an unload event handler. But is it guaranteed that client-side database API is still functional at this point? And if it is - can one queue up more statements and/or transactions from statement callbacks? There needs to

Re: [whatwg] SQL storage and onunload

2008-02-08 Thread Brady Eidson
Though it would be very nice to have defined semantics wrt the unload handler, I always thought this work could be done with the beforeonunload handler, instead. As far as the unload handler question, what are the semantics for XHR? Seems the application of saving some application state

Re: [whatwg] SQL storage and onunload

2008-02-08 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Brady Eidson wrote: Though it would be very nice to have defined semantics wrt the unload handler, I always thought this work could be done with the beforeonunload handler, instead. I am not sure if this helps much - you can create a transaction from

Re: [whatwg] SQL storage and onunload

2008-02-08 Thread Brady Eidson
On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Brady Eidson wrote: Though it would be very nice to have defined semantics wrt the unload handler, I always thought this work could be done with the beforeonunload handler, instead. I am not sure if

Re: [whatwg] Referer header sent with a ping?

2008-02-08 Thread Ian Hickson
This e-mail is a response to all the recent ping= feedback. I carefully took into account all the feedback mentioned below, as well as past feedback and comments outside these mailing lists. In response to these comments, I've made Referer: be #PING for all pings, and added Ping-From and

Re: [whatwg] Calendar subscription as a feed?

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Mosedale
Mikko Rantalainen wrote: Currently it seems that there are two practical ways to link to a iCalendar file; one may distribute the .ics file via HTTP or with webcal protocol (which, if I've understood correctly, is just HTTP with different protocol name to help with binding with correct program).

Re: [whatwg] Calendar subscription as a feed?

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Mosedale
Dan Mosedale wrote: One nice property of the webcal: URI scheme is that any user-agent can reasonably infer the intended use (which is likely to carry the semantic that the URI will be around for a longer period of time) simply from the URI. So this URI can simply be included in any sort

Re: [whatwg] persistent storage changes

2008-02-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Shannon wrote: For what it's worth the changes to persistent storage have my vote. As a web author and user it strikes the right balance between functionality and privacy. Just one thing though, since this storage could also be used for 'offline applications' should

Re: [whatwg] Suggestion: API for accessing cookies (document.cookies)

2008-02-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Christian Schmidt wrote: In order to read, write and delete cookies from script most people use their own utility functions like the ones shown at http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp Indeed. I think though that at this point this is well enough understood that