>-----Original Message----- >From: es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [mailto:es-discuss- >boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Robin Berjon >> >> There is no old version. > >Right, this is v1. What previous W3C API specifications had relied on >was either OMG IDL, or the common lore understanding that people were >familiar with this way of expressing APIs, so they'd get it right. >We're trying to do a bit better than that. >
The primary concern of TC39 members is with the WebIDL ECMAScript bindings. I haven't yet heard any particular concerns from TC9 about WebIDL as an abstract language independent interface specification language. Since W3C seems committed to defining language independent APIs, I would think that the language independent portion of the WebIDL spec. would be the only possible blocker to other new specs. It seems like this might be a good reason to decouple the specification of the actual WebIDL language from the specification of any of its language bindings. Allen Wirfs-Brock Microsoft
