- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:22:15 +0200
- To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <chaals@opera.com>, "DOM mailing list" <www-dom@w3.org>
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:16:03 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:51:48 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> > wrote: >> Is host language really the right word? DOM Events is much more an API >> than a language I think so it would be more natural to speak of an API >> host or some such, if we need to have a concrete term for it at all. >> (For CORS I named it "CORS API specification".) > > Except that it often goes into a language, so I think the word is > reasonable... (i.e. not perfect, but good enough to avoid discussing > further). I don't think API is a particular improvement... If DOM Events is the "origin language" as the specification suggests I think it is. Also considering XMLHttpRequest, Web Workers, Server-Sent Events, etc. are not in the business of defining languages and the HTML and SVG specifications both do define APIs I think it might be worthy of some more consideration. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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