Re: An import statement for Web IDL

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:38 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Cameron McCormack wrote:
>>
>> I don’t know how important it is to keep the HTML interfaces in the
>> org.w3c.dom.html package, but it definitely seems important to keep  
>> DOM
>> Core and Events interfaces in org.w3c.dom and org.w3c.dom.events.
>
> Why? How does it affect black-box compliance of Web-relevant
> implementations of those drafts?

It seems to me that there is some benefit to making Java  
implementations of a Web IDL based DOM Core mostly source compatible  
with existing Java DOM bindings. And the cost is low.

I think letting a spec declare a module in one place in prose without  
wrapping all fragments in a module {} declaration could achieve this  
with minimum burden to spec authors.

  - Maciej