Mention of web spectrometer working group (WSWG) below (last paragraph in thread with Kyle) if anyone is interested.
One use case would be bringing to browsers a supplement to users' History pages: a Progress page, for without one's adequate knowledge of history, how is there progress? (May sound esoteric or existential but i am actually being very logical and enjoying it too :-) Mike Sent by the hope boat. Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Norton <[email protected]> > Date: October 13, 2013, 1:25:45 AM EDT > To: Kyle Huey <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Robert O'Callahan > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [whatwg] Canvas in workers > > > >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Michael Norton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Thank you! Read over the 1st link you provided, interesting. A worker >>> then seems similar to a runtime process in an os environment - is it a >>> derivation of RPC? >> >> In a manner of speaking. Workers are an abstraction allowing for parallel >> computing on the web without any shared mutable state or locking. They >> communicate via message passing, which can be thought of as an asynchronous >> RPC mechanism. > > Distributed computing rather than parallel, yes? > > >>> Also, "Delegation" [Section 9.1.2.5] sounds like that SETI screensaver >>> project years ago, for example. Is that an accurate description of that >>> section's use? >> >> I am not familiar with this project. > > Here's a current state of it: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ > >> >>> As for <canvas>, in Firefox I don't think you need it if you utilize XUL >>> which has similar elements essentially describing the same process(es), for >>> example employing <hbox> and <vbox> with various calls to and fro <iFrame> >>> and DOM elements via event listeners, etc. >> >> This mailing list is for discussing standards track features for the web, so >> the capabilities of proprietary Mozilla features such as XUL have little >> relevance here, except perhaps as sources to draw inspiration from. > > XUL is an XML programming language, components of which utilize same > structural engineering in stride with HTML5, DOM and such. It is > open-source, please provide proprietary statement clarification. > > As for standards track, I'm interested in utilizing <canvas> too for a new > browser component wg (to establish a spec for a web spectrometer) to develop > a means of providing a medium for conveying Uniform Data Codifications > (distinct from specs as those are standards; UDC would be data codified via > legal processes; eg. Data.gov data) > > For Firefox devs, tho, I would be curious to know how <canvas> can be > distinguished from XUL element naming/grouping conventions. <canvas> seems > more agile as pix regions are not bound to rectangular dimensions. > > -Mike > >> - Kyle
