Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: We can't generically block on children since we can't let the main window block on a child. That would effectively permit synchronous IO from the main

Re: Should MutationObservers be able to observe work done by the HTML parser?

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Elliott Sprehn espr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: ...

Standards for Web applications on mobile devices: August 2012 updates

2012-09-05 Thread Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Hi all, The time of my quarterly release of “Standards for Web Applications on Mobile” has come again; the August 2012 edition of the document is now available at: http://www.w3.org/2012/08/mobile-web-app-state/ I have also created a URI where the latest version of that document will be

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Mark Nottingham m...@mnot.net wrote: The current draft of XHR2 doesn't allow clients to set the UA header. Presumably, by clients you mean client-side script, and not the [client] implementation of the UA. That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of

Social Networking and Elections

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Sobieski
Web Applications Working Group, Greetings. In a 2010 Scientific American article, Tim Berners-Lee indicated some concerns about social networking websites. Concerns were expressed about social networking websites which were described as walled gardens. Concerns indicated included that social

Please don't SPAM our mail list [Was: Re: Social Networking and Elections]

2012-09-05 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 9/5/12 11:16 AM, ext Adam Sobieski wrote: Web Applications Working Group, The subject matter of this mail list is the WG's specifications. Please use this list accordingly. If anyone wants to reply to Adam's e-mail, please use some other mail list (such as www-t...@w3.org). -Thanks,

RE: Please don't SPAM our mail list [Was: Re: Social Networking and Elections]

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Sobieski
Art Barstow, Thank you for indicating the www-t...@w3.org mailing list. I have forwarded my email to that mailing list. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:47:21 -0400 From: art.bars...@nokia.com To: adamsobie...@hotmail.com CC: public-webapps@w3.org Subject: Please don't

Re: [IndexedDB] blocked event could be an error

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Odin Hørthe Omdal odi...@opera.com wrote: David Grogan dgro...@chromium.org wrote: Odin wrote: Also, there's a much bigger chance of developers listening to error on the opening page, rather than blocked. +1. Replacing blocked event with an error event

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: [Constructor] interface MessageChannel { readonly attribute MessagePortSyncSide syncPort; readonly attribute MessagePortAsyncSide asyncPort; }; This should of course say SyncMessageChannel. / Jonas

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: The problem with a Only allow blocking on children, except that window can't block on its children is that you can never block on a computation which is implemented in the main thread. I think that cuts out some major use

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: The problem with a Only allow blocking on children, except that window can't block on its children is that you can never block on a computation which is