Re: Intent to implement and ship: HTMLMediaElement.allowedToPlay

2018-07-31 Thread Adam Gashlin
I don't think that Netflix would accept allowedToPlay == false for media which is the whole point of visiting a page. They probably wouldn't even check it then, instead allowing for the possibility that the user will be prompted or that it just won't autoplay if they expressed that preference. This

Re: Web Replay landed in Firefox nightly

2018-07-31 Thread Anthony Jones
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 03:38:00 UTC+12, mte9...@gmail.com wrote: > I am waiting a lot this feature but I am a Linux user so I cannot try it. To be clear: this is not a feature, it is a proof of concept. > So I tried to add the flag on Linux and see what happens. > Adding 'devtools.recordreplay

Re: PSA: xptcall on Tier-3 platforms

2018-07-31 Thread Kris Maglione
This is fantastic news. XPIDL has been stagnant for far too long, given how core a part of our platform it is. As anyone who's had to work with it can attest, it's basically a relic of the coding styles of the late '90s, and doesn't translate well to the practices of our current codebase. And

PSA: xptcall on Tier-3 platforms

2018-07-31 Thread Bobby Holley
XPConnect requires some platform-specific code to do its magic [1]. There are around ~28 different copies of this code in xpcom/reflect/xptcall, which makes it very difficult to maintain. Historically, we've handled this by treating xptcall as fixed and working around its deficiencies. Given the n

Re: Developer Outreach - Web Platform Research and Recommendations

2018-07-31 Thread James Graham
On 27/07/2018 21:26, Dietrich Ayala wrote: Additionally, much of what we're proposing is based directly on the interviews we had with people in different roles in the development of the web platform. Common themes were: lack of data for making selection/prioritization decisions, visibility of wha

Re: Intent to implement: Clear-Site-Data header

2018-07-31 Thread Andrea Marchesini
Right, I saw bug 1479519. I'm going to implement some WPTs to cover that part of the spec. On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 6/20/18 9:14 AM, Andrea Marchesini wrote: > >> Do other browser engines implement this? >> Shipped in Chrome 61. >> > > It looks like there is no