On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Mark Miller wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > >>> Indeed, I noted this earlier. The behavior HTML5 codifies is the > >>> behavior that the majority of browser vendors have asked me to codify. > >> Majority, huh? Which vendors? How does the behavior they ask for > >> correlate with what their browsers do? > > > > Opera, Apple, and Mozilla. The HTML5 spec originally specced what IE > > does, namely throw an exception when running code whose global object > > doesn't match the current Window object, but Opera, Apple, and Mozilla > > rejected this on the grounds that it could not be implemented in a > > high-performance manner. > > That is clearly false. It would be a single pointer comparison when > entering a new context. > > I make no comment here on whether this behaviour would be a good idea on > other criteria, just that rejecting it on performance grounds is absurd.
To be honest it doesn't really matter to me what the reason is -- if three browser vendors tell me they're not implementing the spec, I change the spec. My goal is to have a specification that browser vendors implement. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
