On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:44:05 +0200, Cameron McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

> Erik Dahlström:
>> The first instanceof test returns true in Opera 9.5, the second one  
>> false,
>> in accordance with the Ecmascript 262 spec AFAIK. There's no multiple
>> inheritance in Ecmascript.
>
> I don’t think it’s necessarily in accordance with ECMA-262.  That spec
> doesn’t say how instanceof should behave when you have a host object on
> the RHS.
>
> It seems natural to me for the second one to return true, too.

I agree that that seems logical, and it does seem to apply to some of the  
SVG interfaces, though not all.

...
> Is that how you think it should work?  I’d appreciate your input for Web
> IDL.

It's clearly desirable to be able to add custom methods and data on any of  
the svg interfaces. I'll see what can be done to fix this.

> And are there any rules for interfaces that cannot be constructed?  For
> example I notice that:
>
>   Node.protoype.abc = 123;
>   alert(document.abc);
>
> does work in an SVG document.

Indeed.

Cheers
/Erik

-- 
Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software
Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed

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