[whatwg] WebIDL nested interfaces

[Tobie Langel]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:09, Cameron McCormack <cam at mcc.id.au> wrote:

> Tobie Langel:
>> No. It sounds like I should be fast asleep instead of making a fool of
>> myself and wasting everybody's time.
>
> It is however the kind of thing that Tab wants to do for CSS (have a window.CSS object that is like a namespace object for some CSS interfaces -- the concept for which used to exist in Web IDL a while ago, but which I removed due to disuse).  So it might well make sense to add something to Web IDL to handle this again.

Agreed it's a terrible limitation of WebIDL if spec editors are
creating globals because the language misses something like
namespaces. One that should be fixed.

--tobie