On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > I still don't feel like I have a clear answer to two fundamental > questions when designing DOM specs: > > 1. Is it ever appropriate to return Date objects from methods in the > DOM? If so, in what circumstances. Two cases where we are currently > considering using Date objects are: > > ... > > 2. Is it ever appropriate to return a Date object from a "readonly" > property. > > > > How about : > > 3. Is it ever appropriate for a DOM API to accept and retain a reference to > a Date object?
We could even generalize it to: 3. Is it ever appropriate for a DOM API to accept a reference to a Date object. Even if we just take a snapshot of the value returned by .getTime() and retain that snapshot, is that really beneficial to taking a numeric timestamp? The feedback in this thread seems to indicate "no" on all three? / Jonas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
