WebAPI/2013-10-01
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WebAPI Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-10-01 - 8:00 am Pacific
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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- WebAPI Vidyo Room / London- / Toronto-Spadina
- Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel
Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes
Notes
- An Inter-App Communication API issue: how can a port know the port on the other end is stopping deliverying message or is actually dead?
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915880 (comment #10 for possible solutions)
- W3C doesn't like onclose: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23327
- Marcos lobbies for simpler JS-exposed APIs to do specific things like "Music controller", etc.
- lots of discussion about how to avoid exposing GC and deal with crashes
- Ehsan to send an email to WHATWG suggesting not GCing ports
- Shared Workers landed \o/ ... and bounced /o\
- seed questions for Summit Q&A session
- What new APIs can we expect in upcoming Firefox releases?
- Tell us more about standardization status of various APIs
- What's the status of various W3C groups (SysApps, Web Apps)?
- What APIs can I use? What is the best API for ___ use case?
- Are there any upcoming changes to the Firefox OS app security model?
- What are we doing with packaged apps? Are they just a temporary thing?
- Q4 goals, Q3 goals recap
- Ben landed some fancy new IDB features: IDBObjectStore.getAllKeys (preffed off), <something else>
- who wants to own Network Information API? DAP chair wants to shelve it unless someone pushes for it
- https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dap/raw-file/tip/network-api/Overview.html
- Andrew will email dev-b2g and others to find an owner
