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From: Travis Leithead
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:28 AM
To: bren...@mozilla.com; Allen Wirfs-Brock; c...@mcc.id.au
Cc: es-discuss; Garrett Smith; Chris Wilson
Subject: Re: Array Like Interface
(Adding Cameron, the WebIDL editor
>-Original Message-
>From: Garrett Smith [mailto:dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com]
>
>Right. The problem is that that implied interface is not fulfilled in
>a compatible way IE. IE has list-like host objects which do not work
>with Array generics, even though those objects appear to support
>[[Get]]
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
wrote:
> The ES specification implicitly defines such an interface. It is
> essentially, the union of the requirements that an object must support if it
> is going to work correctly with the specified generic array methods. Those
> implicit
On May 15, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
Note that the host object exceptions in the Es5 spec. permits, but
do not require that hosts take liberties with the ES specified
object semantics. In particular, there is no reason that a browser
cannot implement DOM objects as "native
The ES specification implicitly defines such an interface. It is essentially,
the union of the requirements that an object must support if it is going to
work correctly with the specified generic array methods. Those implicit
requirements are fairly basic, but include the standard specified be
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Garrett Smith wrote:
>
> Implementations could implement this interface for their own interfaces
> that may be nonstandard, such as window.frames[1] (if that has not made
> it into Ian Hickson's HTML 5 yet).
window.frames === window and is defined here:
http://www.whatwg
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