FWIW, Blink uses DOMStringList only in IndexedDB and apparently in Location.ancestorOrigins
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/6/14 4:49 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > >> What's with all the "no one implements" (including #3) stuff in specs? >> > > IDL Arrays in general are not implemented by anyone that I know of (and > possibly ever). They were a new concept added in WebIDL that hasn't really > caught on with implementations. In Gecko's case that was because we never > got around to it, and it was simpler to use the infrastructure we needed to > create anyway or already had for "indexed getters" (c.f. DOMStringList, > NodeList, etc) than to create a bunch of new infrastructure for IDL Arrays. > > And then people realized that in some ways IDL Arrays are an attractive > nuisance even if they were implemented, which made the priority on > implementing them even less. > > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23682 has discussion > that's worth reading, if people haven't already, about the various use > cases that arise for arrays and arraylikes and how to best solve them. > > Are the specs new? >> > > Somewhat. > > > Are we in a situation (even in #3, _pace_ Jonas) >> where the specs should be changed to reflect reality? >> > > Yes. Need to figure out what reality is or should be, first. > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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