[dom3events] glossary - host language

[Anne van Kesteren-2]

Is host language really the right word? DOM Events is much more an API  
than a language I think so it would be more natural to speak of an API  
host or some such, if we need to have a concrete term for it at all. (For  
CORS I named it "CORS API specification".)


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[Charles McCathieNevile-2]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:51:48 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@...>  
wrote:

> Is host language really the right word? DOM Events is much more an API  
> than a language I think so it would be more natural to speak of an API  
> host or some such, if we need to have a concrete term for it at all.  
> (For CORS I named it "CORS API specification".)

Except that it often goes into a language, so I think the word is  
reasonable... (i.e. not perfect, but good enough to avoid discussing  
further). I don't think API is a particular improvement...

cheers

Chaals

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[Anne van Kesteren-2]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:16:03 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile  
<chaals@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:51:48 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@...>  
> wrote:
>> Is host language really the right word? DOM Events is much more an API  
>> than a language I think so it would be more natural to speak of an API  
>> host or some such, if we need to have a concrete term for it at all.  
>> (For CORS I named it "CORS API specification".)
>
> Except that it often goes into a language, so I think the word is  
> reasonable... (i.e. not perfect, but good enough to avoid discussing  
> further). I don't think API is a particular improvement...

If DOM Events is the "origin language" as the specification suggests I  
think it is. Also considering XMLHttpRequest, Web Workers, Server-Sent  
Events, etc. are not in the business of defining languages and the HTML  
and SVG specifications both do define APIs I think it might be worthy of  
some more consideration.


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