On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
* Background JavaScript worker threads
Not super high-priority for our largely client-server site. Can be
useful if you're doing some heavy work in JS, though, since you can have
it run in background without freezing the user interface.
You mean...stuff like bots written in Javascript, using the XML API?
I could imagine also sending mails via Special:Emailuser in the background
to reach multiple recipients - that's a PITA if you want send mails to
multiple users.
* Geolocation services
Also available in a standardized form in upcoming Firefox 3.5. Could be
useful for geographic-based search ('show me interesting articles on
places near me') and 'social'-type things like letting people know about
local meetups (like the experimental 'geonotice' that's been running
sometimes on the watchlist page).
That sounds kinda interesting, even if the accuracy on non-GPS-enabled
devices isn't that high... can this in any way be joined with the OSM
integration?
Marco
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