On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I certainly wouldn't object to the ES spec's event loop algorithms > > being turned inside out (search for "RunCode" on the esdiscuss thread > > above for an e-mail where I propose this) but that would be purely an > > editorial change, it wouldn't change the implementations. > > The proposed setup from Allen will start failing the moment ECMAScript > wants something more complicated with its loop. At that point you'll > have to propose another set of hacks to make the integration with HTML > work again. And given this integration is so weird, I doubt > implementations will match it as written. Seems more likely they'll > implement the more straightforward alternative. > > (Also, the proposed setup does seem to require exactly that kind of > mental integration I was worried about. With HTML hijacking the ES loop > to do its bidding.)
Certainly editorially I would much rather have the "inside out" version of the spec hooks that I mentioned in my earlier e-mail, yes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
