On May 24, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On May 22, 2010, at 3:58 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > > > Even though no one is currently considering implementing this outside of JavaScript land and even though it'll limit us some and making speccing harder, I think it'd be a mistake to depend on JavaScript. And, as far as I can tell, the whole point of WebIDL is to not depend on one single language. And I can't think of any others that do. > > WebKit exposes Web APIs as part of the native API for embedders, this includes Objective-C and GObject bindings. There have also been suggestions to add bindings for languages such as Python, Java or Ruby. I think interfaces for Web platform APIs should remain language-agnostic to the degree possible. > > For the date issue specifically, we should consider adding a Web IDL date type which could map to JavaScript Date objects and potentially native date types for other languages, and something language agnostic for ether languages. > > Cameron/Sam would you be willing to add something like this to WebIDL? I have no idea what the spec language would look like otherwise I'd draft up some proposed text. I am happy to add language for a Date type. -Sam
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