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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon dart-lang

Compatibility and nullability

Open sigmundch opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

We need to decide how to represent APIs that are not available on certain browsers:

  • Does package:web only support the latest IDL regardless of the browser?
  • Does package:web offer an alternative library that matches support known on the browsers currently supported by dart2js?
  • Should JSNull/JSUndefined be exposed as Dart null automatically or be boxed?

Note this has implications in how easy it is to move code from dart:html as well. dart:html took the approach of using Dart's nullability and marking APIs as nullable if MDN indicated that it wasn't supported in all browsers that dart2js supports.

sigmundch avatar May 19 '23 20:05 sigmundch