Re: [whatwg] NoDatabase databases

2013-09-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Brett Zamir wrote: As far as a user-facing application, for the first case, I have some very preliminary (but usable) proof-of-concept work for a Firefox add-on (along with not-yet-reusable Node.js and PHP implementations) at https://github.com/brettz9/httpquery .

Re: [whatwg] NoDatabase databases

2013-08-18 Thread Brett Zamir
On 8/17/2013 5:16 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 05/01/2013 10:57 PM, Brett Zamir wrote: I wanted to propose (if work has not already been done in this area) creating an HTTP extension to allow querying for retrieval and updating of portions of HTML (or XML) documents where the server is so capable

Re: [whatwg] NoDatabase databases

2013-08-16 Thread Brendan Long
On 05/01/2013 10:57 PM, Brett Zamir wrote: I wanted to propose (if work has not already been done in this area) creating an HTTP extension to allow querying for retrieval and updating of portions of HTML (or XML) documents where the server is so capable and enabled, obviating the need for a

Re: [whatwg] NoDatabase databases

2013-08-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 2 May 2013, Brett Zamir wrote: I wanted to propose (if work has not already been done in this area) creating an HTTP extension to allow querying for retrieval and updating of portions of HTML (or XML) documents where the server is so capable and enabled, obviating the need for a

[whatwg] NoDatabase databases

2013-05-01 Thread Brett Zamir
Hi, I'm not sure where to post this idea, but as it does pertain to HTML I thought I would post it here. I wanted to propose (if work has not already been done in this area) creating an HTTP extension to allow querying for retrieval and updating of portions of HTML (or XML) documents where