That's great! Definitely lower the barrier of entry for people new to Gecko C++.
Just curious — what's the historical significance between nsIDocument and nsDocument? I know "ns" stood for Netscape but what did "I" mean? On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:56 PM Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is awesome - thanks Emilio! > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM Emilio Cobos Álvarez <emi...@crisal.io> > wrote: > > > I've always been slightly annoyed at the fact that Gecko used to have > > multiple classes for the same concept of a document node without any > > clear separation these days (nsIDocument and nsDocument). > > > > Over the last week I decided to change that by first merging both in: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516366 > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516853 > > > > And finally renaming nsIDocument to the more usual naming convention for > > DOM objects / WebIDL-exposed things these days in: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517241 > > > > So the end result is that now nsIDocument and nsDocument are the same > > thing and are called mozilla::dom::Document. > > > > It was quite a big patch (thanks Olli for all the reviews!), but > > over-all I think the end result is nicer. > > > > Anyhow, this is just a PSA since it's such a common type to be used, in > > case you don't find something that used to live there :) > > > > -- Emilio > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
