David Bruant wrote:
Le 19/02/2012 09:33, Brendan Eich a écrit :
> (...)
>
> How is the BRS configured? Again, not via a pragma, and not by
> imperative state update inside the language (mutating hidden BRS state
> at a given program point could leave strings created before mutation
> observably different from those created after, unless the
> implementation in effect scanned the local heap and wrapped or copied
> any non-BMP-char-bearing ones creatd before).
>
> The obvious way to express the BRS in HTML is a<meta> tag in document
> <head>, but I don't want to get hung up on this point. I do welcome
> expert guidance. Here is another W3C/WHATWG interaction point. For
> this reason I'm cc'ing public-script-coord.
I'm not sure a<meta> is that obvious of a choice.
Sure, guidance welcome as noted. I probably should have started with an
HTTP header, but then authors may prefer to set it with <meta
http-equiv...> which is verbose:
<meta http-equiv="ECMAScript-Full-Unicode" content="1" />
We can't have
<meta http-equiv="BRS" content="1" />
as BRS is too short and obscure. It's a good joke (should
s/switch/button/ -- the big red button was the button Elmer Fudd warned
Daffy Duck never to press in "Design for Leaving":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gms_NKzNLUs). Anyway, whatever the header
name it will be a pain to type the full <meta> tag.
Unless I'm missing something, I think the same discussion can be had
about the BRS being declared as a<meta>. Consider:
<script>
// some code that can observe the difference between BRS mode and
non-BRS
</script>
<meta BRS>
Should the browser read all<meta>s before executing any script? Worse:
what if an inline script does "document.write('<meta BRS>')"?
Since I was thinking of <meta http-equiv> (possibly with a short-hand),
your example simply puts the <meta> out of order. It can't work, so it
should not work (console warning traffic appropriate).
In mentioning <meta> I did not mean to exclude better ideas. Obviously a
multi-window/frame app might want a Really Big Red Switch expressed in
one place only. Ignoring Web Apps with manifest files, where would that
place be? Hmm, CSP...
I think a CSP-like solution should be explored.
Good suggestion. I hope others on the lists are up-to-date on CSP.
/be
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