Re: [whatwg] Date Update?

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Waldron
Garrett, I'm cc'ing es-discuss, as that's a more appropriate list for discussing updates and extensions to the language's built-in objects. Rick On Sunday, January 19, 2014, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All - Just some random ideas on JavaScript Date. I understand that it

Re: [whatwg] Supporting scanners on the web

2013-10-14 Thread Rick Waldron
Does providing a means to scan-to-the-web make web developers a new group for patent trolls to target? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/scanning-documents-patent-trolls-want-you-pay Rick On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking

Re: [whatwg] Should video controls generate click events?

2013-08-21 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, Simon Pieters wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:37:46 +0200, Brian Chirls brian.chi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, this is the clarification I was looking for in my previous inquiries. Given this explanation, I absolutely object to any change (such as this) that

Re: [whatwg] Should video controls generate click events?

2013-08-21 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, Simon Pieters wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:19:51 +0200, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.com wrote: Are you suggesting that Silvia's earlier description of the implications was wrong? No, I was correcting misconceptions in the stuff I quoted. Thank you

Re: [whatwg] Should video controls generate click events?

2013-08-20 Thread Rick Waldron
I'm wondering how this will effect interaction programming with Popcorn.js. Sylvia, would you mind clearly defining the implications of this change, given what you know about the project? Feel free to respond offline if you feel that discussion would derail the subject. Thanks Rick On Tue, Aug

Re: [whatwg] Should video controls generate click events?

2013-08-20 Thread Rick Waldron
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer

Re: [whatwg] Should video controls generate click events?

2013-08-20 Thread Rick Waldron
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiff...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.

Re: [whatwg] Should video controls generate click events?

2013-08-20 Thread Rick Waldron
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.comwrote: Firefox actually implements click-to-play video by default. It's unfortunate and all video interaction projects that I've worked

Re: [whatwg] Stack trace in window.onerror

2013-07-24 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, James Greene wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Nathan Broadbent wrote: The current information passed to window.onerror rarely provides

Re: [whatwg] Stack trace in window.onerror

2013-07-12 Thread Rick Waldron
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/12/13, James Greene james.m.gre...@gmail.com wrote: Ian — Hi James - I've interleaved, combined with your top post below. I'm curious: would do you say that? All evergreen browsers already include a

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: createImageBitmap should return a Promise instead of using a callback

2013-06-20 Thread Rick Waldron
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Justin Novosad ju...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: I think something like interface ImageBitmap { static

Re: [whatwg] API to delay the document load event

2013-04-29 Thread Rick Waldron
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 4/29/13 6:50 AM, James Graham wrote: So far we have kept the model where the load event is auomatically managed by the UA, rather than giving the developer direct control of it. Developers already have direct control

Re: [whatwg] asynchronous JSON.parse

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Waldron
The JSON object and its API are part of the ECMAScript language specification which is standardized by Ecma/TC39, not whatwg. Rick On Thursday, March 7, 2013, wrote: right now JSON.parse blocks the mainloop, this gets more and more of an issue as JSON documents get bigger and are also used

Re: [whatwg] asynchronous JSON.parse

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Waldron
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.comwrote: The JSON object and its API are part of the ECMAScript language specification which is standardized by Ecma/TC39, not whatwg. He's talking about

Re: [whatwg] Standardizing Console object

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Waldron
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Rick Waldron wrote: Sent to: public-script-coord, whatwg (Please don't cross-post when posting to the WHATWG list; since it's a subscriber-only list, it results in fragmented threads when people

Re: [whatwg] URL: URLQuery

2012-12-01 Thread Rick Waldron
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nlwrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Only feedback left is the return types of set(), append(), and delete(). In Maps, set() returns the map, so you can chain more easily.

Re: [whatwg] URL: URLQuery

2012-12-01 Thread Rick Waldron
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Alexandre Morgaut alexandre.morg...@4d.com wrote: Only feedback left is the return types of set(), append(), and delete(). Maybe remove() would be better than delete() as delete is

Re: [whatwg] Canvas in Workers

2012-11-16 Thread Rick Waldron
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: var proxy = canvas.transferControlToProxy()); bikeshed Proxy with a capital P is an API in ES6 for creating Proxy objects. While I recognize that this is obviously just a conceptual sketch of your idea and that you're

Re: [whatwg] Canvas in Workers

2012-11-16 Thread Rick Waldron
CanvasProxy is a fine disambiguation. Rick On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Rick Waldron wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: var proxy = canvas.transferControlToProxy()); bikeshed

Re: [whatwg] Canvas in Workers

2012-11-16 Thread Rick Waldron
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Rick Waldron wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Rick Waldron wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote

Re: [whatwg] URL: URLQuery

2012-10-13 Thread Rick Waldron
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: As you might have noticed, JS started adding things like Map in part because the native dictionary-like access has one significant problem: it

Re: [whatwg] URL: URLQuery

2012-10-12 Thread Rick Waldron
On Friday, October 12, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: I didn't really get around to working on URLs this week like I planned, but I managed to draft the query API that was discussed in the last thread:

Re: [whatwg] Rename the 7-arg arcTo() to ellipseTo()?

2012-09-24 Thread Rick Waldron
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: So, can we rename the 7-arg arcTo to ellipseTo? That seems to support your always [require] all the

Re: [whatwg] Rename the 7-arg arcTo() to ellipseTo()?

2012-09-24 Thread Rick Waldron
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.com wrote: Has there been any discussion about moving newly emerging APIs to a single options object formal parameter? This discussion

Re: [whatwg] [canvas] Proposal for supportsContext

2012-09-10 Thread Rick Waldron
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Tobie Langel tobie.lan...@gmail.comwrote: This is actually what we could do now. We could hide window.WebGLRenderingContext when we can't create one. But then we'd have to hide all these too: attribute [Conditional=WEBGL] WebGLActiveInfoConstructor

Re: [whatwg] register*Handler and Web Intents

2012-08-02 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Having carefully studied the Mozilla Web Activities proposal, the Web Intents draft, the register*Handler APIs, and to a lesser extent the dispatch mechanisms in existing operating systems (desktop and mobile) and the piles

Re: [whatwg] Detecting eventListeners

2012-05-24 Thread Rick Waldron
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Xavier Ho wrote: Hello Jason, On 25 May 2012 12:33, Jason Edward 今井 Parrott parrott.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Personally, I wouldn't want some random library listening and possibly forcibly removing my event listeners. Some bad script could do

Re: [whatwg] DOMTokenList methods would be more useful with a space separated token list

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, David Håsäther wrote: It would be more useful if the DOMTokenList methods (contains, add, remove, toggle) would take a space separated list of tokens. This is the behavior most DOM libraries have when

Re: [whatwg] DOMTokenList methods would be more useful with a space separated token list

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012, Rick Waldron wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, David Håsäther wrote: It would be more useful if the DOMTokenList methods (contains, add

Re: [whatwg] DOMTokenList methods would be more useful with a space separated token list

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Waldron
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012, Rick Waldron wrote: JS APIs like this should always return the object (constructed instance or not) and therefore chain implicitly. Let me rephrase, I simply expect modern DOM APIs to return something

Re: [whatwg] [media] startOffsetTime, also add startTime?

2012-03-07 Thread Rick Waldron
Thanks for putting this together Odin -- this has long been a point of interest for all of us on the Popcorn.js dev team. Rick On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Odin Hørthe Omdal odi...@opera.com wrote: startOffsetTime seem to leave people confused, I often have to explain it, and yesterday I

Re: [whatwg] Can we deprecate alert(), confirm(), prompt() ?

2012-03-05 Thread Rick Waldron
All three of these are considered highly effective tools in mobile web development - they offer functional UI for free. Rick On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Biju bijumaill...@gmail.com wrote: Today I again landed on a malicious site which trap users using alert/confirm to download some

Re: [whatwg] Specification of window.find()

2012-02-15 Thread Rick Waldron
+1 to TJ's mention of find for use in the Selector API: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/0277.html Rick On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: So I guess we