On 7/15/11 1:37 PM, Dean Landolt wrote:
Is it really a problem if host objects don't survive in full across serialization boundaries?
Depending on what you mean by "in full", yes.
As you say "All APIs that use structured cloning are pretty explicit. Things like Worker.postMessage and IDBObjectStore.put pretty explicitly creates a new copy." If you expect host objects to survive across that boundary you'll quickly learn otherwise, and it won't take long to grok the difference.
The whole point of structured cloning is to pass across objects in a way that's pretty difficult to do via serialization using existing ES5 reflection facilities.
Java draws a distinction between marshalling and serialization which might be useful to this discussion:
Structured clone is closer to marshalling. -Boris _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
