dap commit: moved to DAP

changeset:   23:e181834c5380
tag:         tip
user:        Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
date:        Fri Oct 21 10:50:39 2011 +0200
files:       api-design/Overview.html
description:
moved to DAP


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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en' lang='en'>
+  <head>
+    <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'/>
+    <title>API Design Best Practices</title>
+    <script class='remove'>
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+          specStatus: "ED",
+          shortName:  "api-design",
+          editors: [
+                {   name:       "Robin Berjon",
+                    url:        "http://berjon.com/",
+                    company:    "Robineko",
+                    companyURL: "http://robineko.com/" }
+          ],
+          edDraftURI:   "http://w3c-test.org/webapps/api-design/",
+          copyrightStart: 2011,
+          noIDLIn:      true,
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+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <section id='abstract'>
+      <p>
+        This document captures best practices in designing APIs that fit well into the Web platform as
+        a whole, using WebIDL [[!WEBIDL]].
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section id='sotd'>
+      <p>
+        As it currently stands, this document is nothing more than a proposal from its editor, with no
+        backing implied or otherwise from any other party.
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section>
+      <h2>Introduction</h2>
+      <p>
+        Over a relatively short period of time the number of different APIs being created for use on the
+        Web has grown at a sustained pace. In working on these interfaces, many in the community discuss
+        the benefits of certain approaches over others and reach agreement as to best practices when
+        facing a given problem.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Keeping track of all these gems is however difficult given the volume of work being carried on
+        in parallel and the sometimes disjointed nature of the groups involved. As a result, it can take
+        a long while and many arguments repeated almost identically before a discovered best practice
+        becomes common.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        The goal of this document is to capture such ideas as they appear and accrete them over time so as
+        to constitute a repository of knowledge on this topic. As a guide it does not however endeavour to
+        supplant editors' brains in making decisions as to how to design their APIs, and consequently one
+        must keep in mind that the reasoning behind a specific recommendation is often more important than
+        its result. Furthermore, in some cases there may not be a single consensual best approach, and 
+        editors will need to understand the tradeoffs involved in order to pick what works for them amongst
+        a set of options.
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section>
+      <h2>WebIDL Legacy Features</h2>
+      <p>
+        ...
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section>
+      <h2>Exceptions</h2>
+      <p>
+        ...
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section>
+      <h2>When to use NoInterfaceObject</h2>
+      <p>
+        ...
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section>
+      <h2>Using Dictionaries</h2>
+      <p>
+        ...
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section>
+      <h2>Specifying Callbacks</h2>
+      <p>
+        ...
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section class='appendix'>
+      <h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
+      <p>
+        Many thanks to Cameron McCormack, Marcos Càceres, and Andreas Gal for their input.
+      </p>
+    </section>
+  </body>
+</html>

Received on Friday, 21 October 2011 08:50:51 UTC