Alex Russell

It strikes me that the goal here is to help developers and users favor browsers that "stay green", that is to say, auto-update and release quickly. It's an objective frame...

This is a good point, although I'd also like a more explicit API that provides some control over how to extend the lifetime of a transaction. I've suggested to @sicking...

Once I rename Future to Promise globally, I'm happy to do that. Look for that later today.

Hey Alex, Thanks for the updates to the explainer and the responses here. So I'm pretty comfortable with how XR rendering works as I helped review the original WebVR APIs...

Sorry for the slow follow-up here, @alcooper91. Let me back up a bit. We should expect AR devices to be able to be all sorts of things - cameras, displays,...

I'm trying to understand what guarantees about the world's state are required, and why they aren't being packed into the value passed to the future instead of being left in...

Strongly agree on the "for humans" bit. Possible resource sites which we might be able to modify to handle this include: - Paul's http://browsehappy.com - http://www.whatbrowser.org/ Or we could come...

I've got a quick sketch of an extension for progress events here: https://github.com/slightlyoff/DOMFuture/blob/master/ProgressFuture.idl I expect that DOMFuture is a broadly-compatible base-class that many, many specs will extend to suit their...

Cancellation means leaking a capability...which is totally legit. Here's the quick-and-dirty variant: ``` js var vendCancelable = function() { var f = new EventedFuture(function(r) { // ... f.cancel = function()...

Hey @domenic: `x == 5`, `y == 5`, and `z == a` At least that's my read of the design that @tabatkins was gunning for. I'm open to arguments that...