Re: [whatwg] Geolocation API Proposal

2008-03-19 Thread Benjamin West
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Aaron Boodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've posted this to the W3C WebAPI mailing list as well. Still looking > forward to feedback on the actual content of the proposal, in either > place. > > Thanks, > > - a > What use cases are drive this proposal? If the

Re: [whatwg] Asynchronous database API feedback

2007-12-15 Thread Benjamin West
On Dec 15, 2007 5:36 PM, Benjamin West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's unclear how this might affect developers using the offline API. > > Ben West > Thought I'd add that for many developers, the issues with asynchronous APIs requiring callbacks are difficult to o

Re: [whatwg] Asynchronous database API feedback

2007-12-15 Thread Benjamin West
On Dec 9, 2007 1:29 AM, Aaron Boodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the new Database API design a lot, but I wish there was an > option for synchronous DB access. > > I did some quick tests and I can insert 1000 rows, totaling 3KB+ of > data into SQLite in less than a tenth of a second on Win

[whatwg] html5 parsing/tokenizing

2007-06-19 Thread Benjamin West
I have a friend who has implemented a fast tokenizer in C. I asked him to send me any feedback he might have, and so what follows are his words. This is from about a month ago, so I apologize if any of this is old ground. -Ben - When the tokenization state machine is defined, every

Re: [whatwg] [wf2] form submission algorithm questions

2007-04-16 Thread Benjamin West
sing error messages (of the ilk "you need to enter a string instead of a number"). There is no automatic procedural loop, just an iterative process for validating and submitting sane input. Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity. -Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

[whatwg] [wf2] form submission algorithm questions

2007-04-15 Thread Benjamin West
At http://bewest.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/webforms-2-submissionvalidation-model/ , I discuss the submission/validation algorithm specified in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#form-submission . Applications won't be able to trust any incoming input, without some mechanism that en

Re: [whatwg] audio vs. video

2007-03-17 Thread Benjamin West
On 3/5/07, Håkon Wium Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also sprach Elliotte Harold: > If we add a video element, should we for the same reasons add an audio > element? Yes. I agree. I was thinking about what Christoph Päper said, in element proposal: On 3/17/07, Christoph Päper <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [whatwg] require img dimensions to be correct?

2007-03-16 Thread Benjamin West
On 3/16/07, Dean Edridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firstly, the chance of someone not being able to access the CSS for a web page is I'm guessing, pretty slim. Why is accessing CSS a problem? -Ben West

Re: [whatwg] Video proposals

2007-03-15 Thread Benjamin West
(oops, this is a re-send of an email I sent only to Ian Hixie. I keep pressing the wrong reply button :-( ) On 3/15/07, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the meantime, here's replies to the comments I got. Wow. Nice. On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Opera has some i