On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Brion Vibber brion@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