- From: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:25:13 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@robineko.com>, Ilkka Oksanen <Ilkka.Oksanen@nokia.com>, "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org Policy WG" <public-device-apis@w3.org>, Kenton Varda <kenton@google.com>
On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, John Kemp wrote: >> >> We are designing Javascript APIs here. Those APIs involve making >> Javascript calls. > > Is this a requirement? If so, why? It seems like if it makes more sense to > expose something as a RESTful API exposed with a custom scheme handled > natively by the UA, then we should do that, rather than expose things as a > JavaScript API. I think what likely makes most sense is what Kenton suggested earlier - a WebIDL binding for RESTful services. That way we should get equivalence between the JS API and the RESTful model without having to specify entirely separate ways (or a new way) of doing things. Regards, - johnk
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