[Dynapi-Dev] Some ideas for DynAPI3

[Joy Ride]

Hello,

We have few ideas for DynAPI3. Since we haven't involved in to DynAPI3 development earlier it may be that these ideas have been taken in to DynAPI3 allready :-)

The number one issue in our mind are posibility to have alternate browser JS-modules ("browser transforms"). We believe that this would improve the compability and speed of DynAPI.

The basic idea goes like this:

1) There is one set of js-files, which is called DOM or Basic set
2) Then there is browser / platform family set of JS-files ("browser transforms") as well as browser version related set of JS-files ("sub transforms"), which will replace or add certain things in to basic set ... I call these browser transforms
3) Browser detection is in one JS-file and there is browser description JS file, which anounces the JS-files to be loaded with each browser ... all the other JS-files do not call or contain browser detection of anykind.

This approach would allow users to write their own browser transforms (extensible support for any browser available). It would make the browsers optimization for speed and compability easier. This would enable easier browser by browser bugfixing, and it would make the compability tests and problem isolation easier (some times fix will cause incompability with other browser). This approach will reduce the amount of code to be downloaded each time (only the code needed for certain browser would be downloaded). Placing the browser detection only in to one place would propably speed up the excecution speed of DynAPI quite much also.

The transforms could be used also when only a limited set of features would be needed --> light version of JS-files.



- Juho Risku / Visualway Design Oy


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