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Web IDL is a format for describing interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers.

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Status of this specification

As of 19 April 2012, Web IDL specification document became Candidate Recommendation of the Web IDL specification. When the document reaches "Recommendation" status, it will have the full powers of W3C standards.

Usage

  • W3C Wiki has a list of W3C Specifications that use Web IDL. [1]
  • Chromium Project has a page about using WebIDL to specify interfaces in Blink (layout engine) [1]
  • Mozilla uses Web IDL in their software creation process, mapping implementations to Web IDL specs.[2]
  • When WebKit is built, the IDL files are parsed, creates the code to bind interfaces to implementations [3]

References

  1. ^ "Web IDL in Blink". Blink Project Documentation. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Mozilla WebIDL bindings". Mozilla Developer Network. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  3. ^ "WebKit ​Web IDL". trac.webkit.org. Retrieved 9 June 2013. {{cite web}}: zero width space character in |title= at position 8 (help)