Re: [whatwg] Proposal for secure key-value data stores

2010-08-16 Thread Evan Ireland
One of our key concerns is with Web SQL Database API (which we prefer) or Indexed Database API. I might wish to build an offline web application which will refuse to operate if the browser cannot guarantee that the database is encrypted. Now full-disk encryption would be fine (if the O/S has a

[whatwg] Web Workers API

2010-07-01 Thread Evan Ireland
Hi, The IDL for Worker in the Web Workers API specification shows: void postMessage(in any message, in optional MessagePortArray ports); I have a question regarding the 'any' type for message. If a caller of postMessage passes an object to a worker that is not a string, is it converted to

Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 72, Issue 63

2010-03-30 Thread Evan Ireland
Nicholas, Looks interesting. Quite similar to an API I was working on recently (a non-web API in my case). A question though: ... the callback must be called asynchronously ... Why? Do you anticipate that openSecureStorage may take so long to execute that we want to avoid blocking the UI