Re: Web IDL Garden Hose (was: ECMA TC 39 / W3C HTML and WebApps WG coordination)

Allen Wirfs-Brock:
> Every place the WebIDL ECMAScript binding "overrides" an ECMAScript specification
> internal method is a concern as these are special case extensions to the ECMAScript
> semantics.  As language designers we need to understand if these special cases are
> exemplars of general deficiencies in the language that should be addressed.
> 
> In particular  now that ES5 is finished, WebIDL has a richer language to bind to then
> it had with ES3.  We need a WebIDL binding that maximizes use of ES5 capabilities rather
> than inventing non-standard (from an ES perspective) language extensions.

Indeed, much of the custom [[Get]] etc. functionality can be turned into
ES5 meta-object stuff.  A pertinent question is then: should we change
Web IDL to specify an ES5 binding (and not ES3) at this point, given
that specs depending on it want to advance along the Rec track?

-- 
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

Received on Saturday, 26 September 2009 22:37:33 UTC