All - given that addressing 12111 is a low priority for Ian, one way
forward is for someone else to create a concrete proposal.
BTW, I don't think anyone from Opera or Safari has commented on bug
12111 and if that is the case, it would be good to get their comments.
-AB
On Jun/14/2011 12:21 AM, ext Jeremy Orlow wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<[email protected] <mailto:simetrical%[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> The particular issue in question isn't a particularly important
one. The
> spec describes a superset of implementations, and is a logical
direction
> for the spec to go. (Even within the process, there's no reason we
> couldn't go to LC with it as is.) Implementations are the
ultimate guide
> here, when this issue bubbles up to the top of the priority list
then
> it'll get resolved one way or the other based on what they do
and want.
The spec does not describe a superset of implementations. It
describes behavior that contradicts what implementations actually do.
For instance, if you set localStorage.foo = false, the spec requires
localStorage.foo to return boolean false. In implementations, it will
return the string "false", which evaluates to boolean true. It is not
realistically going to be possible for implementations to change to
what the spec currently says.
Furthermore, we have some implementers from each of IE, Firefox, and
Chrome saying that they don't intend to change to match the spec, and
no implementers saying they intend to change to match the spec. That
should serve to indicate that the spec is broken and needs to change,
process issues aside.
I don't see what would take a few hours to change here. Change all
the relevant types from any to DOMString, remove all the stuff about
structured clones, and let WebIDL do the work. That's immediately
much closer to browser behavior than the current spec.
I was about to write an email that said about the exact same thing.
Then I saw Aryeh beat me to it.
J
