On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Kyle Huey <m...@kylehuey.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Julian Viereck <
> julian.vier...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Gregor Wagner and I are going to give a talk at MozCamp about how to
>> implement WebAPIs in JS and C++. Part of this is also to sit down with
>> people interested and help them get going with doing the implementation
>> after the session.
>>
>> For this hands-on session, I'm looking for some (if possible: simple) APIs
>> to implement. Do you have something small on your mind, that might be a
>> good thing to get started? For the C++ part, small fixes to Gecko would be
>> good as well.
>>
>> To help newcomers get going, we also offer a list of "Friendly People With
>> Some Time", that hang out on IRC and are good people to ping in case
>> someone gets stuck. That list currently contains
>>
>> * khuey
>> * ehsan
>> * bholley
>> * jdm
>> * Ms2ger
>> * dholbert
>>
>> (the names are mostly based on bholley's hacking gecko slides [1]).
>>
>> If you want to help people to get going, you think you have some time to
>> help newcomers to get started and you want to be on that list, please let
>> me know! (If you're on the list and you don't want to be, let me know as
>> well ;) .)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://people.mozilla.com/~bholley/hacking-gecko-fosdem2012/hacking-gecko.html#28.0
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> I'd love to see somebody implement FileSaver[1].  It's probably on the
> advanced side for a first bug, but I refactored most of the relevant code
> well over a year ago to make it relatively easy to add.  Somebody who is
> ambitious could probably put together a patch that could be r+d by the end
> of MozCamp.
>
> I'll also be at MozCamp EU.

There's also the "download" attribute, which is very similar to the
FileSaver. It might even be easier to implement, though that's a wild
guess which would need to be verified by actually looking at the
involved code.

/ Jonas
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