CR Request for WebAssembly Web API - wasm-web-api

[dschuff]

Document title, URLs, estimated publication date

WebAssembly Web API
https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-web-api-2/
Estimated publication date: ASAP

Abstract

This document describes the integration of WebAssembly with the broader web platform.

This is part of a collection of related documents: the Core WebAssembly Specification, the WebAssembly JS Interface, and the WebAssembly Web API.

Status

WD: existing status can be seen in the doc at the link above
Status for all the various states (including what the CR status will be) can be found in our Bikeshed boilerplate
files: https://github.com/speced/bikeshed-boilerplate/tree/main/boilerplate/wasm

Link to group's decision to request transition

https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/main/2024/WG-06-12.md

Changes

Changes to the core spec since 1.0 listed at https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/#change-history.

However, none of these changes affect the Web API; it is unchanged since version 1.0, but we want
to keep the version numbers in sync with the core and JS APIs.

Requirements satisfied

Dependencies met (or not)

Dependencies are unlikely to change

Wide Review

[TODO: horizontal review?]
Issues are tracked at https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues
Email announcement at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2024Jul/0000.html

Issues addressed

Issues are tracked at https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues

Formal Objections

None raised

Implementation

All of these features have been implemented in all 3 major browser engines. A full feature matrix including version
information can be found at https://webassembly.org/features/

Patent disclosures

[TODO: link to IPP]

[dschuff]

/cc @sideshowbarker @lukewagner @rossberg

[plehegar]

See #651 (comment)