Re: WebMidi

On Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Brian Kardell wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com (mailto:w3c@marcosc.com)> wrote:
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> > On Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Brian Kardell wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com (mailto:w3c@marcosc.com) (mailto:w3c@marcosc.com)> wrote:
> > > > > Would this be as simple as changing that to xRequestMIDIAccess, or would (likely IMO) you really want the objects returned to be prefixed as well so that it is fairly obvious in the code what you are doing?
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> > > > Kinda… for this API that might be ok. Some parts cannot be prefixed because they extend host objects (e.g., MIDIEvent).
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> > > This is exactly the part of the discussion that i think is worth having. If you xRequest - do you get MIDIEvent or xMIDIEvent... If you get the later, then what you describe is not so much a problem, right?
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> > Neither, you get CustomEvent() … there is no way around this. It's a problem: you can't extend host objects.
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> Haha - crap... I even retyped "event" and didn't notice. Well - that is certainly a great example of something it would be good to come up with a common/accepted guidance around :) I meant to say for stuff like MIDIInput / MIDIOutput..

I was going to implement it over the weekend. I know it's not really in our scope to actually make prollyfills, but I'm doing 2 at the moment and I think it's a great learning opportunity. What will be more challenging will be getting this stuff in front of other devs to comment on.  
   
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> > > > > 2) Whether there are future common bits (like window.performance.now) which we'd also like to consider how to make available easily for things like this - and what form(s) might those take to make it both easy and light for authors of prollyfills.
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> > > > Ok, so again we come back to Clint's discussion… Performance is a "W3C Recommendation" as of "17 December 2012", so that's now "polyfill". No need to prefix.
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> > > No - that's exactly what I mean actually - a friendly way to mix them together nicely so it's easy to build and track that stuff...
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> Me neither - it is mostly a question to get the gears rolling.

Lets make something an find out :)

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