Re: [whatwg] Various autocomplete="" topics

2014-05-09 Thread Evan Stade
Regarding transaction-amount and transaction-currency: is there consensus that they are useful types? Should the discussion move to a bug? They are mentioned here[1] but they aren't the main topic of that bug. [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25471 -- Evan Stade On Tue, May 6

Re: [whatwg] WebGL and ImageBitmaps

2014-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 9 May 2014, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Justin Novosad wrote: > > > > To help us iterate further, I've attempted to capture the essence of > > this thread on the whatwg wiki, using the problem solving template. I > > tried to capture the main ideas that we seem to agree on s

Re: [whatwg] Notifications: reviving Notification objects

2014-05-09 Thread Edward O'Connor
Hi, Anne wrote, last year: >>> There are a couple of scenarios >>> http://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/ does not address at the >>> moment. >>> >>> A) User navigates to chat site. Chat site creates a notification >>> from a chat with P while the user does something else. User closes >>> chat sit

[whatwg] ImageBitmap feature requests

2014-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Justin Novosad wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Ashley Gullen wrote: > > > > > > Some developers are starting to design large scale games using our > > > HTML5 game engine, and we're finding we're running in to memory > >

Re: [whatwg] WebGL and ImageBitmaps

2014-05-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > Given that the user's device could be a very low-power device, or one with > a very small screen, but the user might still want to be manipulating very > large images, it might be best to do the "master" manipulation on the > server anyway. >

[whatwg] WebGL and ImageBitmaps

2014-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
I had been waiting until the situation around canvas in workers cleared up a bit, but having spoken to some browser vendors it seems that canvas in workers, while desired by everyone, is not a high priority issue and so might not get cleared up for some time. Therefore, I'm now looking again a

[whatwg] APIs inside Workers

2014-05-09 Thread Ian Hickson
Some old e-mails regarding exposing APIs in Workers... On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Tobias R. wrote: > > I can see efforts in exposing canvases within a worker [1]. Does that > mean the following APIs are exposed and available within a worker as > well? Since you sent that e-mail, I updated the spec t

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > I've updated the spec proposal [1] to sanction reporting fewer than the > actual number of logical cores as a fingerprinting mitigation. The spec should allow the UA to do this (the "real" value isn't script-visible, so it can't really prohib

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-09 Thread David Young
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 07:31:15PM -0400, Eli Grey wrote: > I have a list of example use cases at > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores#Example_use_cases > > Each of these use cases involves a parallelizable algorithm that needs > to run as fast as possible on the user's system in order for

[whatwg] Update on fallback encoding findings

2014-05-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
A while ago, Hixie pinged me on IRC to ask if there are any news about the character encoding stuff. While there are no news yet about guessing the fallback encoding from the TLD of the site, there are now some news about guessing the fallback encoding from the locale. Data for Firefox 25: https:/