On Nov 25, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 11/25/14, 11:11 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: >> regarding >> >> var document = someDocument.open(...); >> >> perhaps you can model this by saying that every Document object is created >> in a new Realm. > > Can you explain what problem you're trying to solve here, precisely? I'm not > sure there's even a problem here, fwiw. But creating every Document object > in a new Realm is not obviously web-compatible (or more precisely would > require some pretty major gyrations around the transition from the initial > about:blank to a same-origin document to make it web-compatible: the entire > state of the Realm at the point of transition would need to be copied over to > the new Realm. It's simpler to just use the same Realm).
I'm simply trying to understand what what is meant when HTML talks about changing the global object/realm/etc. and how that can be reconciled with a rational language semantics such as exhibited by the function I presented. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
