- From: poot <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:47:09 -0500
- To: public-html-diffs@w3.org
hixie: remove window.atob/btoa from the W3C draft (whatwg r5867)
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@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
<h1>HTML5</h1>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
- <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-9-february-2011">Editor's Draft 9 February 2011</h2>
+ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-10-february-2011">Editor's Draft 10 February 2011</h2>
<dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/</a></dd>
<dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation
track.
- This specification is the 9 February 2011 Editor's Draft.
+ This specification is the 10 February 2011 Editor's Draft.
</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- relationship to other work (required) --><p>Work on this specification is also done at the <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/">WHATWG</a>. The W3C HTML working group
actively pursues convergence with the WHATWG, as required by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter">W3C HTML working
group charter</a>.</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- required patent boilerplate --><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
@@ -1070,21 +1070,20 @@
<li><a href="#event-handlers-on-elements-document-objects-and-window-objects"><span class="secno">6.1.6.2 </span>Event handlers on elements, <code>Document</code> objects, and <code>Window</code> objects</a></li>
<li><a href="#event-firing"><span class="secno">6.1.6.3 </span>Event firing</a></li>
<li><a href="#events-and-the-window-object"><span class="secno">6.1.6.4 </span>Events and the <code>Window</code> object</a></ol></ol></li>
- <li><a href="#atob"><span class="secno">6.2 </span>Base64 utility methods</a></li>
- <li><a href="#timers"><span class="secno">6.3 </span>Timers</a></li>
- <li><a href="#user-prompts"><span class="secno">6.4 </span>User prompts</a>
+ <li><a href="#timers"><span class="secno">6.2 </span>Timers</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#user-prompts"><span class="secno">6.3 </span>User prompts</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#simple-dialogs"><span class="secno">6.4.1 </span>Simple dialogs</a></li>
- <li><a href="#printing"><span class="secno">6.4.2 </span>Printing</a></li>
- <li><a href="#dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents"><span class="secno">6.4.3 </span>Dialogs implemented using separate documents</a></ol></li>
- <li><a href="#system-state-and-capabilities:-the-navigator-object"><span class="secno">6.5 </span>System state and capabilities: the <code>Navigator</code> object</a>
+ <li><a href="#simple-dialogs"><span class="secno">6.3.1 </span>Simple dialogs</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#printing"><span class="secno">6.3.2 </span>Printing</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents"><span class="secno">6.3.3 </span>Dialogs implemented using separate documents</a></ol></li>
+ <li><a href="#system-state-and-capabilities:-the-navigator-object"><span class="secno">6.4 </span>System state and capabilities: the <code>Navigator</code> object</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#client-identification"><span class="secno">6.5.1 </span>Client identification</a></li>
- <li><a href="#custom-handlers"><span class="secno">6.5.2 </span>Custom scheme and content handlers</a>
+ <li><a href="#client-identification"><span class="secno">6.4.1 </span>Client identification</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#custom-handlers"><span class="secno">6.4.2 </span>Custom scheme and content handlers</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#security-and-privacy"><span class="secno">6.5.2.1 </span>Security and privacy</a></li>
- <li><a href="#sample-handler-impl"><span class="secno">6.5.2.2 </span>Sample user interface</a></ol></li>
- <li><a href="#manually-releasing-the-storage-mutex"><span class="secno">6.5.3 </span>Manually releasing the storage mutex</a></ol></ol></li>
+ <li><a href="#security-and-privacy"><span class="secno">6.4.2.1 </span>Security and privacy</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#sample-handler-impl"><span class="secno">6.4.2.2 </span>Sample user interface</a></ol></li>
+ <li><a href="#manually-releasing-the-storage-mutex"><span class="secno">6.4.3 </span>Manually releasing the storage mutex</a></ol></ol></li>
<li><a href="#editing"><span class="secno">7 </span>User interaction</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#the-hidden-attribute"><span class="secno">7.1 </span>The <code>hidden</code> attribute</a></li>
@@ -48758,226 +48757,7 @@
has been prevented, again as if the <code><a href="#window">Window</a></code> object was
the parent of the <code><a href="#document">Document</a></code> in the dispatch chain.</li>
- </ol></div><h3 id="atob"><span class="secno">6.2 </span>Base64 utility methods</h3><p>The <code title="dom-windowbase64-atob"><a href="#dom-windowbase64-atob">atob()</a></code> and <code title="dom-windowbase64-btoa"><a href="#dom-windowbase64-btoa">btoa()</a></code> methods allow authors to
- transform content to and from the base64 encoding.</p><!-- v2: actual binary support --><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
-interface <dfn id="windowbase64">WindowBase64</dfn> {
- DOMString <a href="#dom-windowbase64-btoa" title="dom-windowbase64-btoa">btoa</a>(in DOMString btoa);
- DOMString <a href="#dom-windowbase64-atob" title="dom-windowbase64-atob">atob</a>(in DOMString atob);
-};
-<a href="#window">Window</a> implements <a href="#windowbase64">WindowBase64</a>;</pre><p class="note">In these APIs, for mnemonic purposes, the "b" can be
- considered to stand for "binary", and the "a" for "ASCII". In
- practice, though, for primarily historical reasons, both the input
- and output of these functions are Unicode strings.<dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">result</var> = <var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-windowbase64-btoa"><a href="#dom-windowbase64-btoa">btoa</a></code>( <var title="">data</var> )</dt>
-
- <dd>
-
- <p>Takes the input data, in the form of a Unicode string
- containing only characters in the range U+0000 to U+00FF, each
- representing a binary byte with values 0x00 to 0xFF respectively,
- and converts it to its base64 representation, which it returns.</p>
-
- <p>Throws an <code><a href="#invalid_character_err">INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR</a></code> exception if the
- input string contains any out-of-range characters.</p>
-
- </dd>
-
- <dt><var title="">result</var> = <var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-windowbase64-atob"><a href="#dom-windowbase64-atob">atob</a></code>( <var title="">data</var> )</dt>
-
- <dd>
-
- <p>Takes the input data, in the form of a Unicode string
- containing base64-encoded binary data, decodes it, and returns a
- string consisting of characters in the range U+0000 to U+00FF,
- each representing a binary byte with values 0x00 to 0xFF
- respectively, corresponding to that binary data.</p>
-
- <p>Throws an <code><a href="#invalid_character_err">INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR</a></code> exception if the
- input string is not valid base64 data.</p>
-
- </dd>
-
- </dl><div class="impl">
-
- <p class="note">The <code><a href="#windowbase64">WindowBase64</a></code> interface adds to the
- <code><a href="#window">Window</a></code> interface and the <code>WorkerUtils</code>
- interface (part of Web Workers).</p>
-
- <p>The <dfn id="dom-windowbase64-btoa" title="dom-windowbase64-btoa"><code>btoa()</code></dfn>
- method must throw an <code><a href="#invalid_character_err">INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR</a></code> exeption if
- the method's first argument contains any character whose code point
- is greater than U+00FF. Otherwise, the user agent must convert that
- argument to a sequence of octets whose <var title="">n</var>th octet
- is the eight-bit representation of the code point of the <var title="">n</var>th character of the argument, and then must apply
- the base64 algorithm to that sequence of octets, and return the
- result. <a href="#refsRFC4648">[RFC4648]</a><!--base64--></p>
- <!-- Aryeh says: This seems to be what all browsers do as of January
- 2011 (except IE, which doesn't support these functions at all). -->
-
-
- <p>The <dfn id="dom-windowbase64-atob" title="dom-windowbase64-atob"><code>atob()</code></dfn>
- method must run the following steps to parse the string passed in
- the method's first argument:</p>
-
- <ol><!-- Aryeh says: Copies Firefox behavior as of January 2011
- (4.0b8). WebKit is somewhat laxer, and Opera throws no exceptions
- at all. gsnedders reports Opera's behavior causes site-compat
- problems, and I figure most sites depend on Firefox if on anything,
- so go with that. --><li><p>Let <var title="">input</var> be the string being
- parsed.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">position</var> be a pointer into <var title="">input</var>, initially pointing at the start of the
- string.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the length of <var title="">input</var> divides by 4
- leaving no remainder, then: if <var title="">input</var> ends with
- one or two U+003D EQUALS SIGN (=) characters, remove them from <var title="">input</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>If the length of <var title="">input</var> divides by 4
- leaving a remainder of 1, throw an
- <code><a href="#invalid_character_err">INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR</a></code> exception and abort these
- steps.</p>
-
- <li>
-
- <p>If <var title="">input</var> contains a character that is not
- in the following list of characters and character ranges, throw an
- <code><a href="#invalid_character_err">INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR</a></code> exception and abort these
- steps:</p>
-
- <ul class="brief"><li>U+002B PLUS SIGN (+)
- <li>U+002F SOLIDUS (/)
- <li>U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9)
- <li>U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
- <li>U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A to U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
- </ul></li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">output</var> be a string, initially
- empty.</li>
-
- <li><p>Let <var title="">buffer</var> be a buffer that can have
- bits appended to it, initially empty.</li>
-
- <li>
-
- <p>While <var title="">position</var> does not point past the end
- of <var title="">input</var>, run these substeps:</p>
-
- <ol><li>
-
- <p>Find the character pointed to by <var title="">position</var>
- in the first column of the following table. Let <var title="">n</var> be the number given in the second cell of the
- same row.</p>
-
- <div id="base64-table">
- <table><thead><tr><th>Character
- <th>Number
- <tbody><tr><td>A<td>0
- <tr><td>B<td>1
- <tr><td>C<td>2
- <tr><td>D<td>3
- <tr><td>E<td>4
- <tr><td>F<td>5
- <tr><td>G<td>6
- <tr><td>H<td>7
- <tr><td>I<td>8
- <tr><td>J<td>9
- <tr><td>K<td>10
- <tr><td>L<td>11
- <tr><td>M<td>12
- <tr><td>N<td>13
- <tr><td>O<td>14
- <tr><td>P<td>15
- <tr><td>Q<td>16
- <tr><td>R<td>17
- <tr><td>S<td>18
- <tr><td>T<td>19
- <tr><td>U<td>20
- <tr><td>V<td>21
- <tr><td>W<td>22
- <tr><td>X<td>23
- <tr><td>Y<td>24
- <tr><td>Z<td>25
- <tr><td>a<td>26
- <tr><td>b<td>27
- <tr><td>c<td>28
- <tr><td>d<td>29
- <tr><td>e<td>30
- <tr><td>f<td>31
- <tr><td>g<td>32
- <tr><td>h<td>33
- <tr><td>i<td>34
- <tr><td>j<td>35
- <tr><td>k<td>36
- <tr><td>l<td>37
- <tr><td>m<td>38
- <tr><td>n<td>39
- <tr><td>o<td>40
- <tr><td>p<td>41
- <tr><td>q<td>42
- <tr><td>r<td>43
- <tr><td>s<td>44
- <tr><td>t<td>45
- <tr><td>u<td>46
- <tr><td>v<td>47
- <tr><td>w<td>48
- <tr><td>x<td>49
- <tr><td>y<td>50
- <tr><td>z<td>51
- <tr><td>0<td>52
- <tr><td>1<td>53
- <tr><td>2<td>54
- <tr><td>3<td>55
- <tr><td>4<td>56
- <tr><td>5<td>57
- <tr><td>6<td>58
- <tr><td>7<td>59
- <tr><td>8<td>60
- <tr><td>9<td>61
- <tr><td>+<td>62
- <tr><td>/<td>63
- </table></div>
-
- </li>
-
- <li><p>Append to <var title="">buffer</var> the six bits
- corresponding to <var title="">number</var>, most significant bit
- first.</li>
-
- <li><p>If <var title="">buffer</var> has accumulated 24 bits,
- interpret them as three 8-bit big-endian numbers. Append the
- three characters with code points equal to those numbers to <var title="">output</var>, in the same order, and then empty <var title="">buffer</var>.</li>
-
- <li><p>Advance <var title="">position</var> by one
- character.</li>
-
- </ol></li>
-
- <li>
-
- <p>If <var title="">buffer</var> is not empty, it contains either
- 12 or 18 bits. If it contains 12 bits, discard the last four and
- interpret the remaining eight as an 8-bit big-endian number. If it
- contains 18 bits, discard the last two and interpret the remaining
- 16 as two 8-bit big-endian numbers. Append the one or two
- characters with code points equal to those one or two numbers to
- <var title="">output</var>, in the same order.</p>
-
- <p>The discarded bits mean that, for instance, <code title="">atob("YQ")</code> and <code title="">atob("YR")</code>
- both return "<code title="">a</code>".</p>
-
- </li>
-
- <li><p>Return <var title="">output</var>.</li>
-
- </ol><!-- Note: this function is defined explicitly here because RFC4648
- does not specify how to handle erroneous input, and no preexisting
- browser implementation simply throws an exception on all erroneous
- input. --></div><p class="note">Some base64 encoders add newlines or other
- whitespace to their output. The <code title="dom-windowbase64-atob"><a href="#dom-windowbase64-atob">atob()</a></code> method throws an
- exception if its input contains characters other than those
- described by the regular expression bracket expression <code title="">[+/=0-9A-Za-z]</code>, so other characters need to be
- removed before <code title="dom-windowbase64-atob"><a href="#dom-windowbase64-atob">atob()</a></code> is
- used for decoding.<h3 id="timers"><span class="secno">6.3 </span>Timers</h3><p>The <code title="dom-windowtimers-setTimeout"><a href="#dom-windowtimers-settimeout">setTimeout()</a></code>
+ </ol></div><h3 id="timers"><span class="secno">6.2 </span>Timers</h3><p>The <code title="dom-windowtimers-setTimeout"><a href="#dom-windowtimers-settimeout">setTimeout()</a></code>
and <code title="dom-windowtimers-setInterval"><a href="#dom-windowtimers-setinterval">setInterval()</a></code>
methods allow authors to schedule timer-based callbacks.<pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface <dfn id="windowtimers">WindowTimers</dfn> {
@@ -49285,14 +49065,14 @@
</ol><hr><p>The <a href="#task-source">task source</a> for these <a href="#concept-task" title="concept-task">tasks</a> is the <dfn id="timer-task-source">timer task
source</dfn>.</p>
- </div><h3 id="user-prompts"><span class="secno">6.4 </span>User prompts</h3><!--
+ </div><h3 id="user-prompts"><span class="secno">6.3 </span>User prompts</h3><!--
v2 ideas:
* in-window modal dialogs
- escape/enter handling
- dragging the window out of the tab
* in-window non-modal palettes
- with a solution for the mobile space
- --><h4 id="simple-dialogs"><span class="secno">6.4.1 </span>Simple dialogs</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-alert"><a href="#dom-alert">alert</a></code>(<var title="">message</var>)</dt>
+ --><h4 id="simple-dialogs"><span class="secno">6.3.1 </span>Simple dialogs</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-alert"><a href="#dom-alert">alert</a></code>(<var title="">message</var>)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Displays a modal alert with the given message, and waits for the user to dismiss it.</p>
@@ -49354,7 +49134,7 @@
user aborts, then the method must return null; otherwise, the method
must return the string that the user responded with.</p>
- </div><h4 id="printing"><span class="secno">6.4.2 </span>Printing</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-print"><a href="#dom-print">print</a></code>()</dt>
+ </div><h4 id="printing"><span class="secno">6.3.2 </span>Printing</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-print"><a href="#dom-print">print</a></code>()</dt>
<dd>
@@ -49443,7 +49223,7 @@
</li>
- </ol></div><h4 id="dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents"><span class="secno">6.4.3 </span>Dialogs implemented using separate documents</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">result</var> = <var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-showModalDialog"><a href="#dom-showmodaldialog">showModalDialog</a></code>(<var title="">url</var> [, <var title="">argument</var>] )</dt>
+ </ol></div><h4 id="dialogs-implemented-using-separate-documents"><span class="secno">6.3.3 </span>Dialogs implemented using separate documents</h4><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">result</var> = <var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-showModalDialog"><a href="#dom-showmodaldialog">showModalDialog</a></code>(<var title="">url</var> [, <var title="">argument</var>] )</dt>
<dd>
@@ -49649,7 +49429,7 @@
value</a> to the given new value.</p>
</div><p class="note">The <code title="dom-window-close"><a href="#dom-window-close">window.close()</a></code> method can be used to
- close the browsing context.<h3 id="system-state-and-capabilities:-the-navigator-object"><span class="secno">6.5 </span>System state and capabilities: the <code><a href="#navigator">Navigator</a></code> object</h3><div class="impl">
+ close the browsing context.<h3 id="system-state-and-capabilities:-the-navigator-object"><span class="secno">6.4 </span>System state and capabilities: the <code><a href="#navigator">Navigator</a></code> object</h3><div class="impl">
<p>The <dfn id="dom-navigator" title="dom-navigator"><code>navigator</code></dfn>
attribute of the <code><a href="#window">Window</a></code> interface must return an
@@ -49685,7 +49465,7 @@
<dd><p>Must return either null or a language tag representing the user's preferred language.</p></dd>
-->
- </div><h4 id="client-identification"><span class="secno">6.5.1 </span>Client identification</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
+ </div><h4 id="client-identification"><span class="secno">6.4.1 </span>Client identification</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface <dfn id="navigatorid">NavigatorID</dfn> {<!--
readonly attribute DOMString <span title="dom-navigator-appCodeName">appCodeName</span>;-->
readonly attribute DOMString <a href="#dom-navigator-appname" title="dom-navigator-appName">appName</a>;
@@ -49757,7 +49537,7 @@
identified. For this reason, user agent implementors are strongly
urged to include as little information in this API as possible.</p>
- </div><h4 id="custom-handlers"><span class="secno">6.5.2 </span>Custom scheme and content handlers</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
+ </div><h4 id="custom-handlers"><span class="secno">6.4.2 </span>Custom scheme and content handlers</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface <dfn id="navigatorcontentutils">NavigatorContentUtils</dfn> {
// content handler registration
void <a href="#dom-navigator-registerprotocolhandler" title="dom-navigator-registerProtocolHandler">registerProtocolHandler</a>(in DOMString scheme, in DOMString url, in DOMString title);
@@ -49950,7 +49730,7 @@
</div><div class="impl">
- <h5 id="security-and-privacy"><span class="secno">6.5.2.1 </span>Security and privacy</h5>
+ <h5 id="security-and-privacy"><span class="secno">6.4.2.1 </span>Security and privacy</h5>
<p>These mechanisms can introduce a number of concerns, in
particular privacy concerns.</p>
@@ -50031,7 +49811,7 @@
</div><div class="impl">
- <h5 id="sample-handler-impl"><span class="secno">6.5.2.2 </span>Sample user interface</h5>
+ <h5 id="sample-handler-impl"><span class="secno">6.4.2.2 </span>Sample user interface</h5>
<p><i>This section is non-normative.</i></p>
@@ -50073,7 +49853,7 @@
method would work equivalently, but for schemes instead of unknown
content types.</p>
- </div><h4 id="manually-releasing-the-storage-mutex"><span class="secno">6.5.3 </span>Manually releasing the storage mutex</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
+ </div><h4 id="manually-releasing-the-storage-mutex"><span class="secno">6.4.3 </span>Manually releasing the storage mutex</h4><pre class="idl">[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface <dfn id="navigatorstorageutils">NavigatorStorageUtils</dfn> {
void <a href="#dom-navigator-yieldforstorageupdates" title="dom-navigator-yieldForStorageUpdates">yieldForStorageUpdates</a>();
};</pre><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">window</var> . <code title="dom-navigator"><a href="#dom-navigator">navigator</a></code> . <code title="dom-navigator-yieldForStorageUpdates"><a href="#dom-navigator-yieldforstorageupdates">yieldForStorageUpdates</a></code>()</dt>
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