[whatwg] Input type for phone numbers

2009-03-30 Thread Antti Koivisto
Hi, I'd like to propose a new type attribute value for phone numbers ( perhaps). The primary benefit would be to enable use of phone number specific input methods (for example a virtual keyboard) and pickers (for example a system address book). A useful minimal implementation could limi

Re: [whatwg] Worker feedback

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Nordman
> > I think it makes sense to treat dedicated workers as simple subresources, not separate browsing contexts, and that they should thus just use the application cache of their parent browsing contexts. This is what WebKit does, according to ap. > I've now done this in the spec. Sounds good.

Re: [whatwg] Worker feedback

2009-03-30 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Drew Wilson wrote: > > >> Re: cookies >> I suppose that network activity should also wait for the lock. I've made >> that happen. >> > > Seems like that would restrict parallelism between network loads and > executing javascript, which seems like the wrong directi

[whatwg] New mailing list h...@ietf.org for discussion of WebSocket (et al)

2009-03-30 Thread Ian Hickson
As Mark discusses below, the IETF has created a mailing list for discussion of the WebSocket protocol. I encourage anyone interested in this technology to subscribe to this new mailing list and particpate in the discussions. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``

Re: [whatwg] Worker feedback

2009-03-30 Thread Drew Wilson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Another use case would be keeping track of what has been done so far, for > this I guess it would make sense to have a localStorage API for shared > workers (scoped to their name). I haven't added this yet, though. On a related note, I tot

Re: [whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI (again)

2009-03-30 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2009/3/29 Kristof Zelechovski : > It is not clear that the server will be able to correctly support various > representations of characters in the path component, e.g. identify accented > characters with their decompositions using combining diacritical marks.  The > peculiarities can depend on the

Re: [whatwg] and acceleration

2009-03-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
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