On Sep 26, 2009, at 08:43 , Yehuda Katz wrote:
Do we disagree that it is a worthy goal to have a specification that can be understood without having to take a while? I certainly understand the utility in using something with precedent like IDL (for implementors).
It is a worthy goal, but it won't be possible to make it so that everyone finds it easy and quick to understand. The current syntax is not familiar only to implementers, whoever has looked at DOM, WebAPI, SVG, etc. specs for documentation over the past decade will find it very familiar. In fact, WebIDL was started in part to formalise the notation that was used colloquially in W3C specifications, sometimes in a way that was OMG IDL compliant, but other times in manners more creative than that.
-- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
