Web IDL

Web IDL is an interface description language (IDL) format for describing application programming interfaces (APIs) that are intended to be implemented in web browsers.

Description

Web IDL is an IDL variant with:^[1]

A number of features that allow one to more easily describe the behavior of common script objects in a web context.
A mapping of how interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to language constructs within an ECMAScript execution environment.

The first edition of the Web IDL specification became a Candidate Recommendation on 19 April 2012. The second edition of Web IDL is an Editor's Draft, and most new web specifications reference this second edition.

The W3C Wiki has a list of W3C Specifications that use Web IDL , and nearly all WHATWG specifications use it.^[2]
The Chromium Project has a page about using WebIDL to specify interfaces in Blink ^[3]
Mozilla uses Web IDL in their software creation process, mapping implementations to Web IDL specs.^[4]
When WebKit is built, the IDL files are parsed, creates the code to bind interfaces to implementations ^[5]

↑ "Web IDL (Second Edition)". World Wide Web Consortium. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group Specifications". WHATWG. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "Web IDL in Blink". Blink Project Documentation. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
↑ "Mozilla WebIDL bindings". Mozilla Developer Network. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
↑ "WebKit Web IDL". trac.webkit.org. Retrieved 9 June 2013.

Protocols	CGI SCGI FCGI AJP WSRP WebSocket

Server APIs	C NSAPI C ASAPI C ISAPI COM ASP Java servlet container CLI OWIN ASP.NET Handler Python WSGI Ruby Rack JavaScript JSGI Perl PSGI Lua WSAPI Portlet container

Apache modules	mod_jk mod_lisp mod_mono mod_parrot mod_perl mod_php mod_proxy mod_python mod_wsgi mod_ruby Phusion Passenger

Topics	Web resource vs. Web service Open API Webhook Application server comparison Scripting

W3C	Audio Canvas CORS DOM DOM events File Geolocation IndexedDB SSE SVG Video WebRTC WebSocket Web messaging Web storage Web worker XMLHttpRequest

Khronos	WebCL WebGL

Others	Gears Web SQL Database (formerly W3C)

Topics

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