Re: ReSpec WebIDL authoring

On 23/04/15 10:55, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> On 23/04/2015 10:46, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> The following aspects of WebIDL are not currently supported and are not
>> yet tested for:
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>> * Static, inherit, stringifier attributes. <--- We use stringifier
>> * Static operations
>> * IDL wrapping (what's this?)
>> * Special operations (what's this?)
>> * Union types
>> * partial dictionaries  <--- We use partial dictionaries, I think.
>>
>> Support for these features will likely be added later.
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>> Suggestion:
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>> - We won't switch getusermedia (unless someone volunteers for the work)
>> - We'll switch webrtc when all the features we need are supported, and
>> someone else assures us it all works for them.
>
> OK; note that if we do indeed converge on that plan, I can also look
> into adding the said features to respec/webidl2.js so that this happens
> sooner rather than later.

That would be great. In terms of guinea pigs, we have much smaller specs 
in our stable, like "capture from DOM element", "audio output" and 
others. Since they are much smaller, perhaps we could start on one of 
them and get feedback from the editor?

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>> For some reason github refuses to show me diffs on the CL you linked to.
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> Right; that's an illustration of how big the changes were :)
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