Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly

2015-01-14 Thread Rich Tibbett
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Janusz Majnert wrote: > On 14.01.2015 14:01, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> >> Andrea just landed the last patch for the BroadcastChannel API: >> >>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966439 >> >> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#broadcas

Re: [whatwg] Splash screen proposal for web apps ?

2013-08-01 Thread Rich Tibbett
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Laurent Perez wrote: >> > >> > Is there work going on on a Splash screen specification ? >> >> What's the use case? >> >> Generally speaking, Web pages load incrementally, so by the time you've >> downloaded an image, yo

Re: [whatwg] Device proximity and light events

2012-05-09 Thread Rich Tibbett
Scott González wrote: On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Doug Turner wrote: You don't. This API doesn't have device detection. Don't assume that onXXX means that the UA supports an event. I thought this was the preferred way to check. I seem to recall a discussion about this and agreement that this

[whatwg] Cross-document messaging setup on form submit

2012-01-16 Thread Rich Tibbett
During some experimentation today I wanted to establish a cross-document messaging channel for when a user submits a form with a target of _blank (or _someframe). I couldn't find any native way to do this when target == _blank so I had to produce my own workaround [1]. In the course of doing this

Re: [whatwg] Proposal to extend registerProtocolHandler

2011-07-06 Thread Rich Tibbett
Olli Pettay wrote: On 07/06/2011 07:51 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: 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 registration So all the ad sites (which are

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 Vafai 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
Peter Kasting wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ojan Vafai 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 conditionalize requests for

Re: [whatwg] Geolocation - Browser usability issues with regards to asking user permission

2011-04-08 Thread Rich Tibbett
Biju wrote: What I want from browser vendors is make navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition and navigator.geolocation.watchPosition ONLY callable from a CLICK event. I thought we all learned lesson from window.open popups window.open is still entirely underspecified in standards when it comes

[whatwg] Thoughts on the media stream bootstrap mechanism

2011-03-15 Thread Rich Tibbett
Hi, We noticed a number of deficiencies with the way a developer can obtain a GeneratedStream object. Hopefully I can explain those succinctly below. A callback-based model fires a single success event. An events-based API allows for ongoing intermediate readyState changes to be fired at web page

Re: [whatwg] Device element and the lifetime of the stream objects

2011-02-16 Thread Rich Tibbett
Andrei Popescu wrote: Hi Anne, On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:48:24 +0100, Leandro Graciá Gil wrote: All feedback will be greatly appreciated. This is just a thought. Instead of acquiring a Stream object asynchronously there always is one

Re: [whatwg] File inputs, @accept, and expected behavior

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Tibbett
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: The file input gained the @accept attribute a little while ago, to indicate what type of file should be accepted. It has three special values, "image/*", "video/*", and "audio/*". I believe one intent of these special values is that browsers may offer the user the ability

Re: [whatwg] Pressure API?

2010-10-20 Thread Rich Tibbett
Jens Müller wrote: Hi, now that device orientation, geolocation, camera etc. have been spec'ed: Is there any intent to provide an API for pressure sensors? This might well be the next hip feature in smartphones ... Oh, and while we are at it: Humidity probably belongs to the same group. Cou

Re: [whatwg] Live video streaming with html5.

2010-09-22 Thread Rich Tibbett
Henri Sivonen wrote: In HTML5, a URL (or a set of URLs) point at what you want the user-agent to display. From the spec's point of view, you can insert any protocol (that can be described by a URL) in there. You'll need it to be supported by your user-agent, of course. In practice, live streami