web Consider excluding IDLs from Web Incubator CG

We can index off a IDL name into

https://github.com/w3c/webref/blob/main/ed/dfns/

And then look for the spec location. Might remove a LOT of noise and churn from the generated IDLs!

See https://github.com/w3c/webref/blob/d69ef53f2a4ca9b3a58c23bb1d2544f3d12e48cd/ed/dfns/turtledove.json#L4

Nov 22 '23 19:11 kevmoo

Ooo! We can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-specs – this has the corresponding names!

CC @srujzs

Nov 24 '23 04:11 kevmoo

Another source of info we could use is the experimental flag from the MDN web docs:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Writing_guidelines/Experimental_deprecated_obsolete

From that page, features graduate out of experimental if "[they are] supported by default in two or more major browser rendering engines".

Dec 29 '23 03:12 devoncarew

Perhaps close this issue (and track exposing specific APIs in other issues?)?

Mar 01 '24 00:03 devoncarew

Perhaps close this issue (and track exposing specific APIs in other issues?)?

YES!

Mar 01 '24 00:03 kevmoo

I don't want to resolve this one quite yet - I still want to tackle opening up the API surface a bit more (standard && !experimental) and the changes needed for that.

Mar 01 '24 00:03 srujzs