Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Rich Tibbett
Peter Kasting wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ojan Vafaio...@chromium.org wrote: Do any browser vendors agree with this or have objections? From my work on the Chrome UI side of this, I would very much like to see something like isRegistered(). This would allow sites to

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Rich Tibbett
Rich Tibbett wrote: Peter Kasting wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ojan Vafaio...@chromium.org wrote: Do any browser vendors agree with this or have objections? From my work on the Chrome UI side of this, I would very much like to see something like isRegistered(). This would allow

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:41:13 +0200, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: In general, I echo Michael's comment that we follow the notifications model. That means using http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/perms/FeaturePermissions.html I take it? I am still somewhat dubious about that idea given

Re: [whatwg] Using footer in blockquote for attribution

2011-07-05 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2011-07-01 11:26, Simon Pieters wrote: Simon felt that “Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source” excludes footer. s/footer/attribution/ Indeed since it's a conformance requirement, in valid documents the content inside blockquote is quoted from another source. If the

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Davidson
For rPH, please don't require a user-initiated click for the call. That's one very annoying thing about notifications - it takes users two clicks to enable them, and every app has to find some suitable in-page UI to ask users to make the first click. Since both notifications and rPH are confirmed

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/5/11 3:58 PM, Michael Davidson wrote: Prompting for permissions is much less annoying than opening a new window That's unclear. Especially if permission grants are persistent. so I don't think the same standards should apply. If anything, persistent permission grants should have a

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Davidson
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: so I don't think the same standards should apply. If anything, persistent permission grants should have a _higher_ bar than opening a temporary pop-up window... Granting permission, yes. But just asking for permission?

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/5/11 4:48 PM, Michael Davidson wrote: Granting permission, yes. But just asking for permission? If the asking for permission can happen in a context in which the user can't tell what's being asked for, it's a really bad idea... I say it's less annoying because (in Chrome, anyway), the

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Davidson
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 7/5/11 4:48 PM, Michael Davidson wrote: Granting permission, yes. But just asking for permission? If the asking for permission can happen in a context in which the user can't tell what's being asked for, it's a really

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/5/11 5:04 PM, Michael Davidson wrote: If the asking for permission can happen in a context in which the user can't tell what's being asked for, it's a really bad idea... Can you clarify what you mean? Requiring an in-page click doesn't mean that the user understands either.

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Kasting
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Yes, I'm not saying in-page click is a solution. It works for popups, sort of, but I don't think it does for permission request notifications. To be truly honest, requiring a user gesture probably doesn't work for rPH()

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-05 Thread Robert O'Callahan
I don't think browsers need to prompt for registerProtocolHandler. Instead, I would simply allow any site to register as a protocol handler for almost anything, and remember all such registrations. When the user navigates to a URI whose protocol has had an app newly registered for it since the

Re: [whatwg] Peer-to-peer communication, video conferencing, device, and related topics

2011-07-05 Thread Shwetank Dixit
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:32:49 +0530, Lachlan Hunt lachlan.h...@lachy.id.au wrote: On 2011-03-18 05:45, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Jonathan Dixon wrote: Further, it could be useful to provide a way to query the video source as to whether the camera is oriented relative to the