Intent to prototype: NavigationPreloadManager API

*Summary: *While ServiceWorkers are intended to improve the performance of websites, it's possible for them to be counterproductive to performance. When navigating to a website with a registered ServiceWorker handling fetch events, the browser must first start up the ServiceWorker before the Servic

Re: Intent to prototype: CSS property `text-underline-position`

On 03/12/2019 17:50, Jonathan Kew wrote: web-platform-tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text-decor/parsing?label=master&q=text-underline-position That looks like it's just testing the property computation. Do we also have tests for the layout effect, or is that difficult to do in this c

Re: How best to do async functions and XPCOM?

On Friday, December 6, 2019 at 9:20:21 AM UTC+11, Geoff Lankow wrote: > Hi all > > I'm redesigning a bunch of Thunderbird things to be asynchronous. I'd > like to use Promises but a lot of the time I'll be far from a JS context > so that doesn't really seem like an option. The best alternative I

Re: Intent to unship: TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:08 AM wrote: > >> … Safari, Firefox, Edge and Chrome are removing support for TLS 1.0 and > 1.1 in March of 2020. … > > Is that (timeline) still a _shared_ intent – for all four browsers? > I recently confirmed this, yes. > Re: the screenshot at < > https://user-images

Re: Intent to unship: TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1

On 05/12/2019 22:34, Martin Thomson wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:08 AM > wrote: >> … Safari, Firefox, Edge and Chrome are removing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in March of 2020. … Is that (timeline) still a _shared_ intent – for all four browsers?

Re: How best to do async functions and XPCOM?

On 12/5/19 5:20 PM, Geoff Lankow wrote: I'm redesigning a bunch of Thunderbird things to be asynchronous. I'd like to use Promises but a lot of the time I'll be far from a JS context Is that because both the implementation of the API and the consumer of the API will be C++? For what it's wo

Intent to Prototype: Constructable Stylesheet Objects

Summary: Many web components use the functionality of Shadow DOM . Currently, In order for a stylesheet to take effect in a Shadow DOM, it must be specified using an HTML

Re: SpiderMonkey Newsletter #1

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:08 PM Jan de Mooij wrote: > (This newsletter is also available on our blog > .) > Does this mean http://blog.mozilla.org/javascript will not be used anymore? Kind regards, Dirkjan _

Re: SpiderMonkey Newsletter #1

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:34 PM Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:08 PM Jan de Mooij wrote: > >> (This newsletter is also available on our blog >> .) >> > > Does this mean http://blog.mozilla.org/javascript will not be us

Re: How best to do async functions and XPCOM?

On Friday, December 6, 2019 at 7:20:21 AM UTC+9, Geoff Lankow wrote: > Hi all > > I'm redesigning a bunch of Thunderbird things to be asynchronous. I'd > like to use Promises but a lot of the time I'll be far from a JS context > so that doesn't really seem like an option. The best alternative I'

Re: Intent to prototype: Delegate and restrict permission in third party context

I think the main question that needs to be answered here is: "How does that make the situation better?" There is an extensive document from the Chrome team on their motivation,

How best to do async functions and XPCOM?

Hi all I'm redesigning a bunch of Thunderbird things to be asynchronous. I'd like to use Promises but a lot of the time I'll be far from a JS context so that doesn't really seem like an option. The best alternative I've come up with is to create some sort of listener object and pass it to the

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Service Workers Working Group

I agree with this assessment. Maintaining accountability when sites don't have a window to attribute activity to is a recurrent issue that this group has never properly resolved. Asking for permission seems to be the defense of choice, but that only prevents the initiation of unaccountable activi