On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > I meant prefixing both the interfaces and the files with IDB which I believe would solve the problem. That said, I agree the correct solution is fixing one or both of the specs. I'll probably try the prefix solution tomorrow though to see if it'd even work. > > 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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