Goals and Considerations

The API design pursues the following goals:

• Simplicity

• Extensibility

• Compatibility with future releases

• Performance

Those goals are achieved by:

• Operating on simple primitives

• Transferring settings and data in the form of extensible JavaScript objects

• Versioning

• Asynchronous API

• Omitting “convenience” API methods with the intent of having a higher-level JavaScript library implementing them.