WebAPI/2014-08-05

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WebAPI Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-08-05 - 8:00 am Pacific

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Notes below archived from etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

Notes

• Read-only update from Sam (spenrose), who can't make it.
  • After much consultation and reading, work in progress here:
    • https://github.com/SamPenrose/ua-augmented-auth
  • Incomplete; needs:
    • updating with already-expressed issues from Jonas and others
    • example manifests
    • example UX
  • Please open issues, PRs, etc.
  • Next:
    • look for integration points with:
      • https://github.com/mikewest/credentialmanagement
    • Go to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JulSep/
      • and open discussion, possibly in context of Credential Manager thread
      • note also mozillian Brian Smith threadjack re form fields
  • Anyone have friends on the Chrome Identity team?
• people are back from PTO
  • annevk is sketching out stuff on share web activity: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Sharing
    • lots of questions about UX
  • baku is working on Service Worker registration
    • also, porting of DOMFile and DOMBlob to webidl; awaiting reviews
    • is now a DOM peer \o/
  • bent
    • intern, Shihua, finished last week; did FileReader and locale-aware sorting in IDB
    • bonus intern (technically on gwagner's team): read from permission manager off main thread; large memory-backed blobs will stream themselves to disk and we can then swap it to be file-backed
    • IndexedDB on workers going well; soon to reviews!
  • bkelly
    • We have ScalarValueString in our webidl implementation in m-c (bug 1025183)
    • Some more SW Cache spec discussion going on here: https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/372
      • structured cloning + streams
      • hoping for more spec solidification before too much implementation work
  • janv
    • mostly working on simplified quota manager api
    • reviews
  • ehsan
    • reviews reviews reviews
    • getFeature stuff
    • working with Roshan on prerendering
  • marcosc
    • Wake lock API
      • Use cases: http://w3c-webmob.github.io/wake-lock-use-cases/
      • spec: http://w3c.github.io/screen-wake/
    • orientation lock spec
    • manifest spec
      • scope
      • sw integration
      • Jonas has a proposal around application scope (related: https://twitter.com/dougturner/status/496496331628613632 )
    • manifest implementation