Below, Marcos proposed a change request to the Widget Interface spec and
this is a Call for Consensus to accept this proposal and to update the
spec accordingly.
Marcos asserted in followups to his proposal that this change would not
affect any implementations nor applications. As such, the change
request, if applied, will not require republication as a new (LC)WD.
Note this spec is currently in the LCWD phase and given there are
already more than two implementations that pass 100% of the test suite,
the only reason this spec is not already a Recommendation is because it
is blocked by the W3C's dependency maturity rules (Web IDL, Web Storage
in particular).
Positive response to this CfC is preferred and encouraged and silence
will be considered as agreeing with Marcos' proposal. The deadline for
comments is December 1 and all comments should be sent to public-webapps
at w3.org.
-AB
Original Message
Subject:[Widgets] WidgetStorage interface
Resent-Date:Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:09:42 +
Resent-From:public-webapps@w3.org
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:08:56 +0100
From: ext Marcos Caceres marcosscace...@gmail.com
To: public-webapps public-webapps@w3.org
Hi,
As part of LC, I've received quite a bit of offline feedback that because of
some issue in Webkit, it's difficult for implementers to reuse the WebStorage
interface in a widget context: the problem is that Widget's use of Web storage
slightly modifies some of the behaviour of the storage methods (e.g., some
things are read only and throw exceptions). The way around this is to define a
WidgetStorage interface that allows for the specific behaviour defined in the
Widget spec.
Consequently, I want to define this interface WidgetStorage in the spec:
WidgetStorage : Storage{}
And hence:
readonly attribute Storage preferences;
Becomes:
readonly attribute WidgetStorage preferences;
In practice, the addition of WidgetStorage doesn't actually affect any
conforming runtimes (but allows a bunch of new Webkit ones to comply).
Kind regards,
Marcos
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Marcos Caceres
http://datadriven.com.au
