Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

2011-10-30 Thread Cameron McCormack
On 30/10/11 4:25 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: Then he probably means file system files and not HTTP files, and support there has indeed been spotty in the past. Ah, yes. Regarding data: URIs, someone should really just amend the RFC to allow specifying a content encoding.

Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

2011-10-30 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Cameron McCormack wrote: >On 30/10/11 10:54 AM, Charles Pritchard wrote: >> One reason I've needed inflate is for svgz support. Browser vendors have >> consistently left bugs and/or ignored the spec for handling svgz files. >> SVG is really intended to be deflated. > >All major browsers have supp

Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

2011-10-30 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 10/30/11 4:11 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: On 30/10/11 10:54 AM, Charles Pritchard wrote: One reason I've needed inflate is for svgz support. Browser vendors have consistently left bugs and/or ignored the spec for handling svgz files. SVG is really intended to be deflated. All major browser

Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

2011-10-30 Thread Cameron McCormack
On 30/10/11 10:54 AM, Charles Pritchard wrote: One reason I've needed inflate is for svgz support. Browser vendors have consistently left bugs and/or ignored the spec for handling svgz files. SVG is really intended to be deflated. All major browsers have support for gzipped SVG documents throug

Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming

2011-10-30 Thread Rick Waldron
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > On 20/10/11 3:50 AM, Alex Russell wrote: > >> I strongly agree that it should be an Array *type*, but I think just >> returning a plain Array is the wrong resolution to our NodeList >> problem. WebIDL should specify that DOM List types

Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming

2011-10-30 Thread Sean Hogan
On 30/10/11 2:28 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: On 20/10/11 3:50 AM, Alex Russell wrote: I strongly agree that it should be an Array *type*, but I think just returning a plain Array is the wrong resolution to our NodeList problem. WebIDL should specify that DOM List types *are* Array types. It's i

Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

2011-10-30 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 10/30/11 3:03 AM, Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo wrote: Instead of a method on a Blob, it could be a separate object similar to Mozilla nsIZipWriter (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIZipWriter), but with some simplifications to avoid extra verbose code. var zipWriter = new zipWriter( '

[Bug 14037] Should XMLDocument be standardized?

2011-10-30 Thread bugzilla
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14037 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson changed: What|Removed |Added Status|ASSIGNED|RESOLVED Resolution|

Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming

2011-10-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > On 20/10/11 3:50 AM, Alex Russell wrote: >> >> I strongly agree that it should be an Array *type*, but I think just >> returning a plain Array is the wrong resolution to our NodeList >> problem. WebIDL should specify that DOM List types *

Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

2011-10-30 Thread Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo
Hi all I've tried to search the Webapps and WHATWG mailing lists for previous discussions about this request, but I haven't been able to find anything. My request can be explained easily: when uploading files to the server, many times the upload time can be improved greatly if the file is compres