Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > Let me give a concrete example, the HTMLCollection interface from HTML5: > <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#htmlcollection-0>. > > This interface is defined to have "getter" properties which imply > catchall getters for index and non-index properties. This is implemented > by all existing browsers and is needed for compatibility with a lot of > Web content. It is also required by DOM Level 2 HTML's ECMAScript > bindings: > <http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/ecma-script-binding.html>. The > fact that ECMAScript 5 can't implement an interface that behaves like > this is an ECMAScript issue, not an HTML issue, in my opinion, and one > that will hopefully be fixed in future editions.
Note that if a future edition of ECMAScript were to support catch-alls, it would still not be a good idea to define any new APIs similar to HTMLCollection, that have the problem of names defined in HTML/XML/CSS potentially colliding with ECMAScript method names (or method names in other languages). Such APIs are confusing, error-prone, and detrimental to forward compatibility and language independence. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
