Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/06/2012 09:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Olli Pettay wrote: On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Olli Pettay wrote: > On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: >>> >>> On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > >>>

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/06/2012 09:30 AM, Olli Pettay wrote: On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking w

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Olli Pettay
On 09/06/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: The problem with a "Only allow bloc

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM, b...@pettay.fi wrote: > On 09/06/2012 08:31 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: The problem with a "Only allow blocking on children, except

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking 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 mai

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Jonas Sicking 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 cases since

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jonas Sicking 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 Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Importantly, the sending side >> doesn't have to know whether the receiving side is using a sync API to >> receive it or not--in other words, that information doesn't have to be part >> of the user's messaging protocol. > > I agree that this

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 wrote: > David Grogan 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 named BlockedError

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 d

Re: [IndexedDB] blocked event could be an error

2012-09-05 Thread Odin Hørthe Omdal
David Grogan 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 named BlockedError would be an improvement. I did this. Proposed patch to the spec is here:

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, AB

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 socia

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Mark Nottingham 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 the UA

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 available

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 wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: ... >>... >> >> But I'm also not very worried about small diff

Re: Sync API for workers

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Jonas Sicking 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 thread which is not someth