- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:16:23 +0200
- To: "'Marcos Caceres'" <w3c@marcosc.com>, "'Charles McCathie Nevile'" <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Cc: "'W3C TAG'" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Friday, April 26, 2013 9:53 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > On Friday, April 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > on the public-script-coord list there has been a discussion about > better > > early review of APIs, and one of the upshots was a request that when > a > > group starts a new API, they send a pointer to that list. Ideally > this > > will enable review of the basic design patterns by more people who > are > > good at developing "javascript-style APIs", which would be helpful. > > > > Web Apps will do this, > So will SysApp. > > and I would strongly encourage other groups to do > > it too. Having consistent design across all the APIs we offer > developers > > will help them to learn new ones easily and correctly, as well as > make > > sure that people who are writing third-party documentation don't get > > caught out by unexpected differences. > > > > There is also a draft of a "design API cookbook" somewhere (Robin is > cc'ed > > to add a link ;) ) that could use some loving, to make it a useful > > resource. > > http://scriptlib-cg.github.io/api-design-cookbook/ That's a pretty outdated version. You should look at http://darobin.github.io/api-design-cookbook/ instead. Cheers, Markus -- Markus Lanthaler @markuslanthaler
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