Re: Naming for custom/specialized extended attributes?

On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:

> Dimitry Golubovsky:
>> Not sure if this was discussed here earlier:
>>
>> if I need to define extended attributes specific to a certain  
>> language
>> binding for WebIDL (neither ECMAscript nor Java*) and meaningless for
>> any other language binding, is there any rule to name them so future
>> implementations of WebIDL tools not specific to my language will just
>> silently ignore them without conflict?
>
> Seems like it would be a good idea to suggest a naming convention in  
> the
> spec (e.g. like CSS does with vendor prefixes).

Sounds like a good idea. WebKit will likely add some extended  
attributes for Objective-C (and possibly for QObject and GObject  
bindings) to Web IDL once we adopt it, and it would be good to have a  
convention.

  - Maciej

Received on Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:52:17 UTC