On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:32:42 +0200, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Moving to public-webapps from public-webapi. See original thread here. > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008Feb/thread.html#msg35 > > João Eiras wrote: > >> if (document.querySelector) { > >> // Supported > >> } else { > >> // Not suported > >> } > > > > Too bad that only works with ecmascript. > > Such syntax is not valid in other languages. > > Is there really any demand from implementers of other languages to have > a feature sting defined for hasFeature()? Is there any evidence that > people make use of existing feature strings in their programs, using any > implementation? >
Speaking as an implementor in Java, I would like to see a feature string defined. I can't provide any evidence that people use feature strings now (largely because existing implementations are in ecmascript where object detection is easier), but without defining a feature string, it would be hard to safely use the Java binding for this feature. Cheers, kats
