ISSUE-44: What do APIs hang off of?
apiHanging
What do APIs hang off of?
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- APIs — General
- Raised by:
- Robin Berjon
- Opened on:
- 2009-11-12
- Description:
- one issue we have with APIs is also how they are exposed. Say for
instance that the Contacts API has a basic interface providing access
to the rest of the functionality called "Contacts". We could:
1) Make it available as a constructor:
2) Make it available as an object already instantiated in the global
scope
3) Make a way of requesting that an API be "loaded"
4) Use an object to provide access to all the device APIs
5) Hang it off from a markup element
6) Hang it off from an event object
Discussion thread starting at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2009Oct/0008.html
which lead to the following observations:
• window.navigator has been used many times for this type of APIs
• a possible window.navigator.device host for the DAP APIs, with the start of a spec at http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/device/Overview.html
• the need to look at it on an API-per-API basis, taking into account the security model, the activation model (e.g. from an event, a markup element), the locking model wrt Web workers
• the need to watch for clashes in existing Web content
(the latter two points having been raised by Hixie http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2009Oct/0122.html) - Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- Draft minutes 2010-01-13 (from frederick.hirsch@nokia.com on 2010-01-13)
- Draft minutes, 2009-12-16 (from frederick.hirsch@nokia.com on 2009-12-16)
- Re: ISSUE-44 (apiHanging): What do APIs hang off of? [APIs â General] (from ifette@google.com on 2009-11-12)
- Re: What does it all hang off of? (from dom@w3.org on 2009-11-12)
- ISSUE-44 (apiHanging): What do APIs hang off of? [APIs — General] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2009-11-12)
Related notes:
new thread on that topic: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2009Dec/0212.html
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, 16 Dec 2009, 16:18:35Display change log