Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-05 Thread Gervase Markham
This thread has got off-topic (reasonably; the new issues are important) but back on the original point, if we do add ICU then: On 03/12/12 11:32, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: - Add the required set of ICU source files as separate files to the Mozilla repository. The current version of ICU (50.1,

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-05 Thread Karl Tomlinson
Neil writes: > Ah, so that explains the fallback flash I experience on a site I > frequent that makes heavy use of a downloaded symbol font. It is > irksome because the fallback content is ASCII text ;-) Just in case others read and want to copy this behaviour, sites should not be encoding symbo

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-05 Thread Robert Strong
On 12/5/2012 8:07 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: On 12/3/2012 5:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: OK, just as an introduction, why we're doing this: The ECMAScript Internationalization API (which has been approved by Ecma TC 39 and is on track to become an Ecma standard next week) provides web ap

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-05 Thread Axel Hecht
On 05.12.12 17:07, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: On 12/3/2012 5:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: OK, just as an introduction, why we're doing this: The ECMAScript Internationalization API (which has been approved by Ecma TC 39 and is on track to become an Ecma standard next week) provides web applica

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-05 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 12/3/2012 5:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: OK, just as an introduction, why we're doing this: The ECMAScript Internationalization API (which has been approved by Ecma TC 39 and is on track to become an Ecma standard next week) provides web applications with the ability to format numbers,

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-05 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:51:21AM -0500, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: >> Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: Actually, ICU has several options for how its data is packaged. One option is libraries (which are not sharable between architectures, AFAIK), but ano

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:51:21AM -0500, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: > >> > >> Actually, ICU has several options for how its data is packaged. One option > >> is libraries (which are not sharable between architectures, AFAIK), but > >> another possibility is to

Re: Proposal: Not shipping prefixed APIs on the release channel

2012-12-05 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Therefore, I propose that we adopt the following policy: > 1) APIs that are shipped on the release channel shall be shipped > without a prefix. > 2) If we ship APIs that don't have specs already, we'll write specs. In yesterday’s platform

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-05 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 5/12/12 10:54, Neil wrote: John Daggett wrote: Last time I looked, Webkit caches activated fonts, so the second time the UA loads the same font (e.g. in a different document) it will be shown immediately without fallback content first. Ah, so that explains the fallback flash I experience o

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-05 Thread Neil
John Daggett wrote: Last time I looked, Webkit caches activated fonts, so the second time the UA loads the same font (e.g. in a different document) it will be shown immediately without fallback content first. Ah, so that explains the fallback flash I experience on a site I frequent that make