Web IDL
Web IDL is an interface description language format for describing application programming interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers.Description
Web IDL is an IDL variant with:
became a Candidate Recommendation on 19 April 2012 and a W3C Recommendation on 15 December 2016. The is an Editor's Draft, and most new web specifications reference this second edition.Usage
- The W3C Wiki has a list of W3C Specifications that use Web IDL, and nearly all WHATWG specifications use it.
- The Chromium Project has a page about using WebIDL to specify interfaces in Blink.
- Mozilla uses Web IDL in their software creation process, mapping implementations to Web IDL specs.
- When WebKit is built, the IDL files are parsed, creates the code to bind interfaces to implementations.
- In the ES operating system, every system API is defined in Web IDL, and can be invoked from JavaScript directly.
