Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-17 Thread S. Mike Dierken
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, S. Mike Dierken wrote: > > > > http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#network > > > > My only question is - why? > > Imagine trying to play a game like Quake implemented in a Web > page. You need bidirectional communication. Okay. Outbound messages are obviously n

Re: [whatwg] [WA1] Quick thoughts on menus.

2005-10-17 Thread Matthew Raymond
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: >>[...] Also, my model doesn't allow menus to be displayed via a >>hyperlink. Displaying menus via hyperlink would introduce weird >>situations like bookmarking menus and referencing menus outside the >>document. While it may be po

Re: [whatwg] Pattern Hint

2005-10-17 Thread Matthew Raymond
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: >>My argument isn't that |title| can't contain pattern hints. What I >>object to is designing HTML5 so that |title| is the only thing that can >>be used for pattern hints on legacy browsers. > > I don't understand why you think it i

Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-17 Thread Ted Goddard
Rather than invent another protocol, this seems like an excellent application for BEEP: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3080.txt Restricting connections to the originating host only has shown to be fairly effective so far, and it's quite easy to see how allowing arbitrary connections (no matter what

Re: [whatwg] web-apps - TCPConnection

2005-10-17 Thread Michael Gratton
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 05:27 +, Ian Hickson wrote: > It's not intended to use port 80 only; where does it say that? That's an > error. It is intended to be usable on ports 80, 443, and anything greater > than 1024. (80 and 443 to attempt to tunnel out of psychotic firewalls, ObFirewallsExistF