On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But IIUC the magic already works via XPConnect/nsDOMClassInfo quirks. This > is why Gaia developers are starting to rely on it, and why Boris is > wondering whether he should propagate that magic into WebIDL bindings. > > So we've already been implementing this for years, and so continuing to do > it is unlikely to pique the interest of other vendors. Thus, if we can't > solve this at the spec level now, it's unclear to me what else we can do. > And I'm more in favor of aligning with the spec than preserving our > non-standard sugar. > Yes, that is a good point. I hadn't considered that other browsers already follow the spec here, so following the spec isn't likely to break Web content. Though, if you look at pages like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384286/javascript-isdom-how-do-you-check-if-a-javascript-object-is-a-dom-object, it's sad to see that all the answers are wrong, and the closest-to-correct answer fails because of the issue at hand. Rob -- Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” [Matthew 20:25-28] _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
