Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Tantek Çelik
Specifically on the subject of what URL spec to reference, I think it should be Mozilla's position (which I'm willing to represent) that the W3C HTML5 spec reference the dated URL spec[1] instead of the copy/paste/modified(even if informatively) W3C WebApps URL spec. [1] https://whatwg.org/specs/u

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/22/14, 1:18 PM, James Graham wrote: I think you'd get a better result by asking for agreement from all the relevant implementors that they felt that the spec was implementable. The problem was that in some cases this was more a less a non-goal (in some cases an anti-goal) for the spec edi

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread James Graham
On 21/09/14 22:19, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 9/21/14, 9:00 AM, James Graham wrote: > More interestingly, either the specification is implementable or not. > Again, because once the REC is published everyone goes home and never > touches that document again. > > The two implementations condition wa

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread L. David Baron
On Monday 2014-09-22 13:55 +0200, Robin Berjon wrote: > I agree with your general sentiment but I would qualify it. If you > are participating *and* have made a bona fide attempt at fixing the > issues you see with the group then you can certainly distance > yourself from the group's actions. > >

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Kyle Huey
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Robin Berjon wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > On 20/09/2014 17:26 , Kyle Huey wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Karl Dubost wrote: >>> >>> Le 20 sept. 2014 à 18:20, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : Yeah the W3C crowd keeps saying that >>> >>> >>> Here the W

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread James Graham
On 22/09/14 13:16, Robin Berjon wrote: > I can't say it has brought about a revolution yet, but it has certainly > helped change minds. It's hard to argue against a continuously updated > test suite. It's hard to imagine that such an animal wouldn't find spec > bugs in addition to implementation b

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: > Right. So I can't speak for the people who are working on that, but I can > vouch that they are open to feedback and have no foul intention whatsoever. I've yet to receive replies to the feedback I gave when it was announced. > Overall, Ann

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
On 22/09/2014 15:04 , Henri Sivonen wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: On 22/09/2014 14:40 , Henri Sivonen wrote: If that was the goal, changing the "Goals" section of the spec to cast doubts about whether the direction the W3C envisions for the spec is consistent with

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread James Graham
On 22/09/14 12:43, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James Graham wrote: >> leaving the remaining participants to debate topics of >> little consequence. > > FWIW, this bit is being spun into Twitter propaganda about Mozilla not > caring about accessibility, so it might be

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: > On 22/09/2014 14:40 , Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: >>> >>> I was hoping that we could simply reference WHATWG URL as a (small) token >>> of >>> good faith and normalisation, adding a small co

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
On 22/09/2014 14:40 , Henri Sivonen wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: I was hoping that we could simply reference WHATWG URL as a (small) token of good faith and normalisation, adding a small cobblestone to pave the way to cooperation. If that was the goal, changing

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: > I was hoping that we could simply reference WHATWG URL as a (small) token of > good faith and normalisation, adding a small cobblestone to pave the way to > cooperation. If that was the goal, changing the "Goals" section of the spec to cast d

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
On 21/09/2014 00:29 , Karl Dubost wrote: Le 21 sept. 2014 à 03:23, Boris Zbarsky a écrit : The important part to me about implementations is that implementations shouldn't follow the known-bogus parts of the HTML5 REC once said bogosity if fixed in the WHATWG spec and HTML5.1 (with the former m

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi James, On 21/09/2014 15:00 , James Graham wrote: Obviously I agree that good testing of implementations is key to interoperability. I also agree that we should encourage vendors to create and run shared tests for the web technologies that we implement. I am substantially less convinced that t

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi Kyle, On 20/09/2014 17:26 , Kyle Huey wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 20 sept. 2014 à 18:20, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : Yeah the W3C crowd keeps saying that Here the W3C crowd. We (Mozilla) have a conflict ;) http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=40

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
On 20/09/2014 11:20 , Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Karl Dubost wrote: My biggest issue with HTML5 spec is that it is too big to be meaningfully implementable and/or testable. Yeah the W3C crowd keeps saying that, yet hasn't invested any meaningful effort into cre

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James Graham wrote: > On 20/09/14 03:46, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 9/19/14, 8:23 PM, L. David Baron wrote: >>> W3C recently published the following proposed recommendation (the >>> stage before W3C's final stage, Recommendation): >> >> The biggest issue I have wit

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi David, On 20/09/2014 02:23 , L. David Baron wrote: One of the open issues being raised in this review is the status of the spec's normative reference to the URL specification. The specification currently references http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ ; it might be possible for us to suggest that it in

Re: PSA: RIP MOZ_ASSUME_UNREACHABLE

2014-09-22 Thread Benoit Jacob
Great work Chris! Thanks for linking to the study; the link gives me error 400, github links are tricky: 2014-09-22 4:06 GMT-04:00 Chris Peterson : > [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bjacob/builtin-unreachable-study > Repo link: https://github.com/bjacob/builtin-unreachable-study Notes file

RE: Upcoming changes to Mac package layout, signing

2014-09-22 Thread Robert Strong
Quick status update on the progress for Mac v2 signing. All of the major changes for Mac v2 signing have landed on the Oak branch. This will allow us to test installing and updating before landing on mozilla-central. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046906 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org

PSA: RIP MOZ_ASSUME_UNREACHABLE

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Peterson
MFBT's MOZ_ASSUME_UNREACHABLE macro has been removed. People mistakenly used it as a debug assertion, but it was actually a compiler optimization hint that invoked possibly dangerous undefined behavior if actually hit. For example, Benoit Jacob's detailed tests [1] show that gcc 4.6 can generat

RE: Support for 32bit on OS X and testing infrastructure

2014-09-22 Thread Robert Strong
> -Original Message- > From: dev-platform [mailto:dev-platform- > bounces+rstrong=mozilla@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Skupin > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 12:24 AM > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Subject: Re: Support for 32bit on OS X and testing infrastructure

Re: Support for 32bit on OS X and testing infrastructure

2014-09-22 Thread Henrik Skupin
Robert Strong wrote on 09/19/2014 06:59 PM: > Regarding dropping support, Silverlight on Mac does not support 64 bit and > we run it using 32 bit. So at the very least we will need html5 for sites > like Netflix before we can drop 32 bit support on OS X. I see. So I will investigate what's necessa

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML5

2014-09-22 Thread Ms2ger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David, On 09/20/2014 02:23 AM, L. David Baron wrote: > W3C recently published the following proposed recommendation (the > stage before W3C's final stage, Recommendation): > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ HTML5 > > There's a call for review to W3