[webkit-dev] What is the relationship between WebIDL and WebKitIDL?

[Kentaro Hara]

> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-June/008458.html
> expressed an intention to move WebKit IDL syntax closer to
> Web IDL syntax, with corresponding bug
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26398
>
> However, there doesn't seem to be any progress on this.

We have always been trying to align WebKitIDL with WebIDL. In
particular, last month we have removed or renamed 70~ IDL attributes
so that they align the WebIDL spec as much as possible
(https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlobCOyvTnPKdG1iaFJhNVZGMWI3eWZid0ZRVFdxU3c#gid=0).

That being said, aligning WebKitIDL with WebIDL is not the only
objective of WebKitIDL. Another important objective of WebKitIDL is to
generate as much binding code as possible, because hand-written custom
binding code is likely to be buggy. This is the reason why WebKitIDL
has introduced so many IDL attributes that are not defined in the
WebIDL spec (e.g. [ActiveDOMObject], [Custom], [CheckSecurityForNode],
etc...so many:-).


> I am interested in moving this forward. Is it okay?

It is _really_ okay. If you find IDL attributes that should be aligned
with the spec or can be cleaned up, you can fix them. Please file a
bug and cc me. I am happy to take a look.


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Kentaro Hara, Tokyo, Japan (http://haraken.info)