Re: PSA: nsIDocument is now mozilla::dom::Document.
"I" stands for Interface. It's a convention borrowed from COM. e.g. COM's IUnknown corresponds to our nsISupports -Jeff On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 8:03 PM Tim Guan-tin Chien wrote: > > That's great! Definitely lower the barrier of entry for people new to Gecko > C++. > > Just curious — what's the historical significance between nsIDocument and > nsDocument? I know "ns" stood for Netscape but what did "I" mean? > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:56 PM Bobby Holley wrote: > > > This is awesome - thanks Emilio! > > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM Emilio Cobos Álvarez > > wrote: > > > > > I've always been slightly annoyed at the fact that Gecko used to have > > > multiple classes for the same concept of a document node without any > > > clear separation these days (nsIDocument and nsDocument). > > > > > > Over the last week I decided to change that by first merging both in: > > > > > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516366 > > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516853 > > > > > > And finally renaming nsIDocument to the more usual naming convention for > > > DOM objects / WebIDL-exposed things these days in: > > > > > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517241 > > > > > > So the end result is that now nsIDocument and nsDocument are the same > > > thing and are called mozilla::dom::Document. > > > > > > It was quite a big patch (thanks Olli for all the reviews!), but > > > over-all I think the end result is nicer. > > > > > > Anyhow, this is just a PSA since it's such a common type to be used, in > > > case you don't find something that used to live there :) > > > > > >-- Emilio > > > ___ > > > dev-platform mailing list > > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > > > ___ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: PSA: nsIDocument is now mozilla::dom::Document.
That's great! Definitely lower the barrier of entry for people new to Gecko C++. Just curious — what's the historical significance between nsIDocument and nsDocument? I know "ns" stood for Netscape but what did "I" mean? On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:56 PM Bobby Holley wrote: > This is awesome - thanks Emilio! > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM Emilio Cobos Álvarez > wrote: > > > I've always been slightly annoyed at the fact that Gecko used to have > > multiple classes for the same concept of a document node without any > > clear separation these days (nsIDocument and nsDocument). > > > > Over the last week I decided to change that by first merging both in: > > > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516366 > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516853 > > > > And finally renaming nsIDocument to the more usual naming convention for > > DOM objects / WebIDL-exposed things these days in: > > > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517241 > > > > So the end result is that now nsIDocument and nsDocument are the same > > thing and are called mozilla::dom::Document. > > > > It was quite a big patch (thanks Olli for all the reviews!), but > > over-all I think the end result is nicer. > > > > Anyhow, this is just a PSA since it's such a common type to be used, in > > case you don't find something that used to live there :) > > > >-- Emilio > > ___ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: PSA: nsIDocument is now mozilla::dom::Document.
This is awesome - thanks Emilio! On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: > I've always been slightly annoyed at the fact that Gecko used to have > multiple classes for the same concept of a document node without any > clear separation these days (nsIDocument and nsDocument). > > Over the last week I decided to change that by first merging both in: > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516366 >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516853 > > And finally renaming nsIDocument to the more usual naming convention for > DOM objects / WebIDL-exposed things these days in: > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517241 > > So the end result is that now nsIDocument and nsDocument are the same > thing and are called mozilla::dom::Document. > > It was quite a big patch (thanks Olli for all the reviews!), but > over-all I think the end result is nicer. > > Anyhow, this is just a PSA since it's such a common type to be used, in > case you don't find something that used to live there :) > >-- Emilio > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
