WebAPI/2013-07-30

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WebAPI Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-07-30 - 10:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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• WebAPI Vidyo Room / SF-Golden Gate (3rd floor) / Toronto-Spadina
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Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

Notes

• new items added to plannedwork page
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/PlannedWork
  • URL parsing (Anne)
  • base URLs
  • find and findAll methods
    • needs special subclass of JS array
  • Shadow DOM
  • Fetch + NavigationController
    • lots of questions here (e.g. iframes, workers)
• which 2 or 3 apis/features underway ATM would especially benefit from developer feedback?
  • NavigationController (with a prototype, definitely)
  • Synchronous IndexedDB (and other features like events when data changes) ... "IDB v2"
  • promises, event streams (important for promise-based APIs), data streams
  • runtime spec http://runtime.sysapps.org/ (standardization risk, lower priority) and app installation, etc. lifecycle
    • Marcos getting access to all manifests in store. Would be good to have this data public.
  • event pages
  • Notifications API
  • storage.js
  • URL API
• survey on web API design https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.webapi/-wP897XmNTI/KJD8hZPwetsJ
  • while these sorts of requests are common, techniques and guidelines for designing "good" web APIs is useful outside of the context of this person's PhD thesis
• TC39 (Anne)
  • was inteteresting
  • ECMA part seems ... "difficult"
  • future language features and versions seems to be going well
  • regular get togethers about JS seems to work well and better than general web platform
  • ES6 been underway for a long time, they're considering more rapid releases
  • not much progress on promises, seems like movement by next meeting in September is possible
    • sounds like internal model changes but hopefully not much in what's exposed
    • we need to do something for gecko 26 (for B2G) by September 16th