Hm. Now that I look closer, I think the only actual conflict is in the "Database" interface. It still seemed worth the webapps email though.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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