Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, 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#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts Assuming everything sticks it'll start appearing in Firefox Nightly soon. We thought we'd give everyone a heads up we're doing this since it hasn't been discussed much. From quickly skimming the linked spec it looks like the same functionality (minus sending objects) is already available with the use of WebStorage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#the-storage-event If you look at the bug that introduced this feature, you'll see that avoiding abusing localStorage was in fact the original motivation for this API. :-) https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22628 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
Got it! Thanks 2015-01-14 20:07 GMT+01:00 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, 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#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts Assuming everything sticks it'll start appearing in Firefox Nightly soon. We thought we'd give everyone a heads up we're doing this since it hasn't been discussed much. From quickly skimming the linked spec it looks like the same functionality (minus sending objects) is already available with the use of WebStorage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#the-storage-event If you look at the bug that introduced this feature, you'll see that avoiding abusing localStorage was in fact the original motivation for this API. :-) https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22628 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
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#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts Assuming everything sticks it'll start appearing in Firefox Nightly soon. We thought we'd give everyone a heads up we're doing this since it hasn't been discussed much. From quickly skimming the linked spec it looks like the same functionality (minus sending objects) is already available with the use of WebStorage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#the-storage-event Regards, -- Janusz Majnert Senior Software Engineer Samsung RD Institute Poland Samsung Electronics
Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Janusz Majnert j.majn...@samsung.com wrote: From quickly skimming the linked spec it looks like the same functionality (minus sending objects) is already available with the use of WebStorage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#the-storage-event That only handles strings and involves an API that is racy and best avoided. You could see the BroadcastChannel API as a better designed lower-level primitive. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Janusz Majnert j.majn...@samsung.com 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#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts Assuming everything sticks it'll start appearing in Firefox Nightly soon. We thought we'd give everyone a heads up we're doing this since it hasn't been discussed much. From quickly skimming the linked spec it looks like the same functionality (minus sending objects) is already available with the use of WebStorage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#the-storage-event It is possible but not trivial (see e.g. http://blog.fastmail.com/2012/11/26/inter-tab-communication-using-local-storage/). Paving such cowpaths is a good thing.
Re: [whatwg] Confusion about node1.replace(node2)
Thank you for the quick fix. On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Glen Huang curvedm...@gmail.com wrote: So yeah, replaceWith looks pretty good. Thanks: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/commit/b7563aaf0864c8d104d18c36a9eda036c5205131 -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
Re: [whatwg] Confusion about node1.replace(node2)
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Glen Huang curvedm...@gmail.com wrote: So yeah, replaceWith looks pretty good. Thanks: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/commit/b7563aaf0864c8d104d18c36a9eda036c5205131 -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
[whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
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#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts Assuming everything sticks it'll start appearing in Firefox Nightly soon. We thought we'd give everyone a heads up we're doing this since it hasn't been discussed much. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
