FYI from the webkit mailing list.

We'll probably want to prepare a similar CL for our binding generating code
and whoever is doing the merges should look out for this change being
landed.

J

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote:

> The IDL file format we use to generate our bindings has some things in
> common with WebIDL and many differences. There are extended attributes we
> use that exist in WebIDL but with a different name.
>
> As a first step in making our IDL syntax be as close to the WebIDL standard
> as possible, I’d like to move our extended attributes so they go in the
> appropriate place in the syntax. Ours currently come later in an attribute
> definition; WebIDL puts them before the attribute definition.
>
> I have a patch to do this in this bug <
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26398>. Currently the patch
> contains the code changes to make the binding machinery parse the new
> syntax, and a couple hand-converted files.
>
> I plan to write a script to convert all the IDL files to the new syntax.
> Should be easy.
>
> Not sure about what impact this will have for V8.
>
>    -- Darin
>
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