RE: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-03 Thread Travis Leithead
> From: Sam Ruby [mailto:ru...@intertwingly.net] > > Another way to phrase this question: what would the CR exit criteria be for > such a WebIDL v1? The reason why I bring this up is that if they are too low > to be meaningful, that brings into the question whether or not this exercise > is meani

Re: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On 12/03/2014 11:10 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 12/3/14, 6:02 AM, Yves Lafon wrote: Pretty much like refactoring XHR using Fetch or not. Most implementations will most probably move to the latest version, but the external interface will be the same. "External interface" being the IDL syntax in

Re: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-03 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/3/14, 6:02 AM, Yves Lafon wrote: Pretty much like refactoring XHR using Fetch or not. Most implementations will most probably move to the latest version, but the external interface will be the same. "External interface" being the IDL syntax in this case, not the resulting web-exposed int

Re: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-03 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Yves Lafon wrote: > Another option would be to define only the syntax and leave the bindings to > v2 only, but it wouldn't help much for testing. Well we don't want to test something known to be wrong (e.g. sequence). And we want to retain the ability to make chang

Re: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-03 Thread Yves Lafon
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 12/1/14, 1:49 PM, Travis Leithead wrote: I believe so; this will give many specs a baseline WebIDL document to point to in their references at the very least. Many specs don't rely on the more advanced feature set being defined in WebIDL Second Editi

Re: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-01 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/1/14, 1:49 PM, Travis Leithead wrote: I believe so; this will give many specs a baseline WebIDL document to point to in their references at the very least. Many specs don't rely on the more advanced feature set being defined in WebIDL Second Edition. Here's the problem. As of today, v2

RE: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-01 Thread Travis Leithead
thead Cc: Yves Lafon; Adrian Bateman; public-webapps Subject: Re: Help with WebIDL v1? On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Travis Leithead wrote: > At TPAC, I mentioned wanting to help move along WebIDL v1 to REC. Can you > enumerate the next steps, and where I might be able to help? Thanks! Is

Re: Help with WebIDL v1?

2014-12-01 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Travis Leithead wrote: > At TPAC, I mentioned wanting to help move along WebIDL v1 to REC. Can you > enumerate the next steps, and where I might be able to help? Thanks! Is there any actual value in doing this, since v2 has many additions, improvements, and bug fi