On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:53 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:

> A couple of us at Google are starting to look at implementing the IndexedDB 
> API [1] in WebKit.  We thought a good first step would be to create the IDL 
> files.  The first thing I noticed is that it and the Web SQL Database API [2] 
> have quite a few conflicts in terms of their interface names.  I'm wondering 
> how we can work around this.

It seems like this is something that should be fixed in the IndexedDB spec.

> One idea I had was to just add a prefix to every IndexedDB interface.  Maybe 
> something like IDB?  I'd probably go ahead and give all the indexed database 
> API files a "IDB" prefix just to make it clear which files are connected to 
> that API.  Does this sound good?

Even if you rename the files, having multiple interfaces with the same 
interface name will still cause problems. I don't think it will even compile. 
We could do some interim thing but we really need to get the spec fixed.

> Like I said, we're _just_ getting started.  Once we've got the basics down 
> (like the IDL files) we'll probably be writing up a design doc to get 
> feedback on an end-to-end design and/or soliciting more advice on webkit-dev.

Regards,
Maciej

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