On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Dominic Cooney wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:55 AM, Anton Muhin wrote: >> >> > Good day, everyone! >> > >> > I am sorry if it didn't sound clear enough in our original message, >> > but we're not proposing a new language support, but we're proposing a >> > patch which allows others runtimes to run along with JS in the >> > browser. >> > >> > Of course, we're doing this because of our work on Dart, but our >> > intent was to solicit a feedback from the WebKit community if there is >> > any interest in supporting runtimes additional to JS (and not JS + >> > Dart) in the first place. >> As I have already said, we already support multiple bindings being in use >> at the same time. > > > Those bindings are different because the code that uses them is not > activated from web pages. Looking at the specific posted patches, those > changes seem necessary to support activating a different language from a > page eg <script> tag. So I think while that your specific claim that WebKit > supports multiple bindings at the same time is true, it misses the point. > > > No I was getting sick of the continual claim that this was about > supporting multiple VMs/bindings, rather than adding proprietary extensions > to webkit > > > >> Continuing to claim that is your goal is not helpful. Your goal is to >> allow additional non-standard languages to be provided by webcontent. This >> is an academic exercise as it doesn't match webkit's goal of being a >> standards compliant engine, > > > Is that WebKit’s goal? > > > Um, yes. From http://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html (I'm fairly sure > this has already been quoted in an earlier email but just to bring it back > in context): > GoalsWeb Content EngineThe project's primary focus is content deployed on > the World Wide Web, using standards-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, > JavaScript and the DOM. > --Oliver > I intended the question about whether standards compliance was a goal rhetorically, in that it seems to me that this goal is honored or ignored capriciously.
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