Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-06-03 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Patrick Mueller wrote: The last paragraph in section 4.6 of the Web Storage draft (10 April 2009), mentions a native ordered dictionary data type. The URL to the section in the draft is here: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#database-query-results This is the

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: This is the first time I've seen the requirement for such a beast.  You can understand the desire for it, given the context, but still.  Does anything else in JavaScript make use of such a data structure? It says

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread James Graham
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: This is the first time I've seen the requirement for such a beast. You can understand the desire for it, given the context, but still. Does anything else in JavaScript make use of such a data

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: Still doesn't seem like it makes sense to go ahead and build dependencies on this (unfortunate, IMO) behavior. Isn't HTML5 all about mandating and building dependencies on unfortunate but entrenched behavior?

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread Patrick Mueller
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: Still doesn't seem like it makes sense to go ahead and build dependencies on this (unfortunate, IMO) behavior. Isn't HTML5 all about mandating and building dependencies on unfortunate but

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: James Graham wrote: Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: This is the first time I've seen the requirement for such a beast.  You can understand

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Patrick Mueller wrote: Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Mueller pmue...@muellerware.org wrote: Still doesn't seem like it makes sense to go ahead and build dependencies on this (unfortunate, IMO) behavior. Isn't HTML5 all about

Re: [whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

2009-04-14 Thread Patrick Mueller
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Patrick Mueller wrote: This seems slightly different because it's making a dependency on (unspec'd) JavaScript behavior. Though I'd guess there are other examples. FWIW I believe the next version of the ECMAScript spec will specify the