On May 22, 2010, at 3:58 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > Even though no one is currently considering implementing this outside of > JavaScript land and even though it'll limit us some and making speccing > harder, I think it'd be a mistake to depend on JavaScript. And, as far as I > can tell, the whole point of WebIDL is to not depend on one single language. > And I can't think of any others that do.
WebKit exposes Web APIs as part of the native API for embedders, this includes Objective-C and GObject bindings. There have also been suggestions to add bindings for languages such as Python, Java or Ruby. I think interfaces for Web platform APIs should remain language-agnostic to the degree possible. For the date issue specifically, we should consider adding a Web IDL date type which could map to JavaScript Date objects and potentially native date types for other languages, and something language agnostic for ether languages. Regards, Maciej
