On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:10:26 +0100, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
The question, I guess, is which of the following do we think is more
important:
* Helping authors not write HTML markup that might be hard to convert to
XML, and helping authors avoid nesting comments accidentally, by
Would it be possible to configure the list serv to bounce messages of the form:
/.*: whatwg Digest/
Most of us [1] simply reply to the message we get, not paying much
attention to the summary. (Some do fix the Subject, and there's one
kind soul who is fighting to improve our habits.)
I'm
On 2011-01-06 14:09, timeless wrote:
I'm kinda surprised that servers and CAs don't have better support for
reminding admins of this stuff.
I know for mozilla.org, nagios is responsible for warning admins.
The odd thing (to me) is that CAs make money selling certs, so one
would expect them to
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Roger Hågensen resca...@emsai.net wrote:
This is why I like StartSSL.com so much (besides the free domain and email
certs), is that the pay certs
are actually for the authentication/certification process, the actual certs
themselves are free, and you can issue
Hey all,
I read that giving WebWorkers access to the DOM is apparently a bad idea:
http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=4437
However, the page does not mention why. I'd like to know :)
I ask because I wanted to port an image manipulation script to a WebWorker,
but found out that WebWorkers
Le 07/01/2011 12:24, Berend-Jan Wever a écrit :
Hey all,
I read that giving WebWorkers access to the DOM is apparently a bad idea:
http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=4437
However, the page does not mention why. I'd like to know :)
When you say the DOM, it could mean two things :
- the
Hi,
On 01/07/2011 12:24 PM, ext Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
I assume you've discussed this before, but couldn't find any record. Please
let me know if there is a document somewhere that explains why WebWorkers
have so little access to browser features.
I did not see the original discussion but
On 01/06/2011 10:53 PM, ext Ian Hickson wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, benjamin.poul...@nokia.com wrote:
I would like to suggest a change for the main HTML 5 specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
The problem I have is with the Window object specification
Thanks guys, that makes sense (unfortunately).
So, would it be possible:
1) To give WebWorkers access to the DOM API so they can create their own
elements such as img, canvas, etc...?
2) To create a way to communicate media data between web workers and pages
without serialization, so they can
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:11:55 -, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote:
I gave it a try earlier, since it was mentioned. It created my
account, rejected my CSR, and I got a message saying that I somehow
failed to create a login certificate, that I'd no longer be able to
log in, and according
Le 07/01/2011 14:40, Berend-Jan Wever a écrit :
Thanks guys, that makes sense (unfortunately).
So, would it be possible:
1) To give WebWorkers access to the DOM API so they can create their own
elements such as img, canvas, etc...?
As I mentionned, Ian Hickson's response also covers provoding
As I mentionned, Ian Hickson's response also covers provoding the DOM API
since DOM implementations (besides the document object) aren't thread-safe.
I'm not sure I understand:
- a single WebWorker always runs in only one thread, even though there may
be multiple WebWorkers running on the same
Hello list,
are there any plans on adding frame accuracy and/or SMPTE support to HTML5
video?
As far as I know it's currently impossible to play HTML5 video
frame-by-frame, or seek to a SMPTE compliant (frame accurate) time-code.
The nearest seek seems to be precise to roughly 1-second (or
On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Rob Coenen wrote:
are there any plans on adding frame accuracy and/or SMPTE support to HTML5
video?
As far as I know it's currently impossible to play HTML5 video
frame-by-frame, or seek to a SMPTE compliant (frame accurate) time-code.
The nearest seek seems
On 1/7/11 10:25 AM, Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
- a single WebWorker always runs in only one thread, even though there may
be multiple WebWorkers running on the same thread, right?
No. For example, in Gecko a given webworker only runs on one thread at
any given moment, but that thread can change
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
For what it's worth, Firefox's behavior for atob (based on reading the
source code, sorta) is the following (ignoring various exceptions on
allocation failures and the like):
1) If the input string contains any 16-bit
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
Currently the spec assumes the former is more important. Personally, I
think the latter is rather more useful, but then I use -- as long
dashes all the time! When this was last studied, the weight of argument
was on the stricter
On 1/7/11 12:27 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
1) If the input string contains any 16-bit units whose value is greater
than 0xff, throw INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR.
This seems redundant with step 4 below.
It's not, because after this step the input JS string is converted into
a byte buffer by dropping
I'm open to changing this back; does anyone else have an opinion on
this?
I'd prefer to keep the cases where infoset coercion has to kick in for valid
documents to a minimum. (But I might be optimizing the wrong thing if the
larger population doesn't care about infosets.)
--
Henri Sivonen
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+...@gmail.comsimetrical%2b...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
Note that it's not that uncommon to use atob on things that came from
other
base64-producing tools, not just from
The structured clone algorithm currently allows ImageData and Blob
objects to be cloned but doesn't mention ArrayBuffer. Is this
intentional? I assume there are no security issues involved, since one
could copy the bytes of an ArrayBuffer into either a Blob or an
ImageData object in order to
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
Currently, when a radio button is required, it will suffer from being
missing if no radio elements in the radio button group is checked.
However, radio elements in the group will not suffer from being missing
if they do not have the required
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, and-py wrote:
Here's a curious little issue.
When you use `setTimeout` or `setInterval`, the HTML5 spec seems to say
that the callback should occur after a certain amount of actual time has
elapsed.
But what browsers might do is take the system clock, add the given
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:09:20 +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
On 1/4/11, Diogo Resende drese...@thinkdigital.pt wrote:
Flash is insecure because there's no security policies. It's
similiar to
the firefox feature to read files: you read all or you read none.
That's
not a good policy. Something
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, and-py wrote:
When you use `setTimeout` or `setInterval`, the HTML5 spec seems to say
that the callback should occur after a certain amount of actual time has
elapsed.
But what browsers might do is take the
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Berend-Jan Wever skyli...@chromium.orgwrote:
I ask because I wanted to port an image manipulation script to a WebWorker,
but found out that WebWorkers have no way to use elements such as canvas
and
img.
fwiw, ImageData can be used in a worker. Many folks have
Let me know if this has been discussed before:
Loading an html page containing:
canvasimg src=fallback.jpg //canvas
loads the fallback.jpg image, even when canvas is supported.
Is this intentional, or simply the easiest route for the moment?
-Charles
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 18:03 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
Do you have a link to the original message with this text?
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-November/028945.html
I'm surprised if browsers don't make use of [monotonic time
interfaces].
Summary: typically they do,
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:22 PM, David Levin le...@chromium.org wrote:
fwiw, ImageData can be used in a worker. Many folks have argued that canvas
isn't that useful in a worker and that the gpu acceleration will make it
less useful (and that most image manipulation would be able to use ImageData
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:59:14 -0600 From: Boris Zbarsky
bzbar...@mit.edu On 1/1/11 6:53 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:
ArrayBuffer and Canvas use contiguous memory segments. You don't need a
complex GC pass to let those ones go.
Yes, you do. You can't let go of the canvas buffer without
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
I am staring at the @width and @height attributes of the video
element, because I have just noticed that the implementation of IE9
doesn't respect percentage values in there. I remembered Hixie saying
that if you gave them a value that included
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Simon Pieters wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:10:50 +0100, wha...@whatwg.org wrote:
+ bidirectional algorithm may be implemented indirectly through the
+ style layer. For example, an HTML+CSS user agent should implement
+ these requirements by implementing the CSS
I would recommend that people review this thread:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-February/025254.htmlto
understand the objections previously raised to this idea.
-atw
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:22 PM,
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Drew Wilson atwil...@chromium.org wrote:
I would recommend that people review this
thread: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-February/025254.html
to understand the objections previously raised to this idea.
To comment on one thing in
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