Since FF, Opera, and Safari already conform, and since you folks are the MS representatives, it seems we have a winner! Let's go with the stronger language.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock < [email protected]> wrote: > You're right. Too many different browsers open at the same time. It was > probably FF and one of the other I looked at and I didn't look at any > prototypes. > > > > Regarding, IE I have no issues with IE being initially incompatible with > ES3.1 in this regard. It's a low impact nonconformance and nothing in the > ES3.1 specification actually tests [[Class]]=="Object". However, making it > clear in ES3.1 that DOM (I really mean host) objects shouldn't claim to be > "Object" (unless they really are) will provide an added incentive for IE to > eventually conform. > > > > Allen > > > > *From:* Juriy Zaytsev [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:12 PM > *To:* Allen Wirfs-Brock > *Cc:* Mark S. Miller; Brendan Eich; Mark Miller; es-discuss > *Subject:* Re: [[Class]] and host objects > > > > > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > > > > >Mark Miller: I like your #2 direction a lot. If it were feasible to > require that host objects not even use [[Class]] "Object", I'd be in favor. > However, I'm guessing that would differ too greatly from current browser > behavior to have a chance. > > > > That's what I thought until I probed around a few DOM objects in IE and > Firefox and didn't see any [object "Object"]'s. We probably need the > browser experts to tells whether or not it is common practice to use > [[Class]]=="Object" for host objects but a casual inspection looked > promising. > > > > I actually see IE6 and 7 having "Object" for most of the host methods' > [[Class]]'es. I couldn't find any "Object" [[Class]] nether in FF nor in > Gecko. Both, Opera (9.61) and Chrome (1.x) return "Object" for > `Element.prototype` > > > > [...] > > > > -- > > *Juriy Zaytsev* > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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