All good except it's impossible/not meant to recognize Proxies in JS world?
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Tom Van Cutsem <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/1/11 Nathan Wall <[email protected]> > >> I thought part of the goal in ES6 was striving to make the DOM emulable >> (dare I say implementable?) in pure ES. If that's the case, the inability >> of DOM objects to be proxied sounds like a big deal. >> > > I think we are missing an important point in this whole "Proxy the DOM" > discussion. > > The way I have always thought of how "emulating the DOM using proxies" > would work is as follows: > > 1) a DOM-in-JS library (like dom.js) exports an API that is an exact > mirror copy of the DOM API. > 2) some of these exported methods may create and return proxies that > emulate particular DOM objects. > 3) application code that uses this library only ever interacts with these > emulated DOM objects *via the DOM emulation library's API*. In other words, > it *never* would try to pass an emulated DOM node into the actual DOM. > Doing that is just a plain type error. > > The cases where I think libraries like dom.js make sense is: > - in an environment that doesn't have a real DOM at all (e.g. NodeJS) > - in a sandboxed environment (like SES) where the sandboxed code cannot > ever access the real DOM. > > In neither of these cases, the problem comes up. > > In general, when you're emulating a system, it is almost never the case > that emulated objects must run on the *real* system directly. The real > system doesn't know about the emulation's implementation layer, so it can't > "interpret" the emulated object. > > Choosing to automatically unwrap the proxy and pass in the wrapped DOM > node is dangerous. As Brendan mentioned, it breaks the proxy's abstraction. > In that regard, I agree with Jason that it's best to think of a proxy's > "target" as an encapsulated, internal piece of proxy state that should > never leak. At best, external code can use the target to derive some simple > information (like typeof does on direct proxies). > > The suggestion of allowing proxies to hook into the deeper DOM protocols > and intercept inner calls (via symbols or however else you want to do that) > seems to me a terrible idea. > It seems at least some people here agree. > > To summarize, to me, emulating the DOM is as much about proxying DOM > objects as it is about wrapping the actual DOM functions (like > appendChild). It's the job of the wrapped functions to recognize their > proxies, unwrap them, and pass their unwrapped counterpart into the real > DOM. > > Cheers, > Tom >
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