Re: Modules for IDL fragments in W3C specifications (was: Re: An import statement for Web IDL) from Cameron McCormack on 2009-07-19 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2009)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:58:18 +1000
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <20090719235817.GA10248@arc.mcc.id.au>

Cameron McCormack:
> > With that in mind, here is a mostly concrete proposal:
> > 
> >   * All W3C specs will place interfaces and exceptions at the top level
> >     scope (i.e., not in a module).

Ian Hickson:
> Based on this, I haven't added the text you suggested earlier in the same 
> e-mail about the HTML5 spec being in an 'html' module.

That’s acceptable, assuming we can get agreement that the above proposal
is one that all specs will use.  Perhaps I should add it as a
non-normative section in Web IDL to help it get wider review when we go
to LC.

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Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

Received on Sunday, 19 July 2009 23:59:50 UTC