Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 29/05/06, Andrew Fedoniouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Axiom: Code which is not altering the state of the world cannot produce anything useful (work) for that world. (C:) Mine. How about something like this? img

Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts

2006-05-31 Thread liorean
On 31/05/06, Andrew Fedoniouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] From mathematic standpoint: By its definition Math.random() function is not side effect free in ECMAScript. It uses static variable for generation of pseudo-number sequences.

[whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-05-31 Thread Ian Hickson
The Mozilla guys propose (in bug 339127) to make the accept= attribute on input elements also apply to types other than type=file, with the same meaning as we currently have on textarea. Their particular use case is to use this as a hook for showing or hiding the spell-check UI. What do

Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: whatwg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts | On 31/05/06, Andrew Fedoniouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | - Original Message - | From: liorean [EMAIL

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-05-31 Thread L. David Baron
On Wednesday 2006-05-31 19:51 +, Ian Hickson wrote: The Mozilla guys propose (in bug 339127) to make the accept= attribute on input elements also apply to types other than type=file, with the same meaning as we currently have on textarea. Their particular use case is to use this as a

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-05-31 Thread Lachlan Hunt
L. David Baron wrote: We might want to use the accept attribute in the future to indicate what types of content can be sent, and thus what types of input the user agent should allow. Overloading that to get a boolean for whether spellchecking should be enabled seems broken. AIUI, the accept

Re: [whatwg] input type=text accept=

2006-05-31 Thread L. David Baron
On Thursday 2006-06-01 00:41 +, Ian Hickson wrote: Well, we want to avoid adding attributes for each feature (spellcheck=on autoindent=on syntaxhighlight=on syntaxcheck=off, as browsers add each feature) -- instead it is better, IMHO at least, to let the UA determine how it should

Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts

2006-05-31 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:43:42 +0700, Andrew Fedoniouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know any algorithm of random number generation which is not using previous value stored somewhere (seed). (I mean software based random generation only) There are software random number generators which

Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:43:42 +0700, Andrew Fedoniouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know any algorithm of random number generation which is not

Re: [whatwg] Side effects free scripts

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [skiped] The problem is that verifying whether function may result in side effects is a pain that must be delayed until runtime. You cannot know that methods, functions or constructors are side effect free unless they are host