On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > What's special here is that everything set with the implicit getters/setters > is supposed to be turned into a string. So yes this does seem somewhat > unique.
I didn't think about the case of the implicit setters. The most consistent answer would be to allow it. sessionStorage.removeItem should still be accessible through SessionStorage.prototype.removeItem, for example. > And yes, "there isn't good interop right now across the board"...but that's > one of the reasons the HTML 5 spec + WhatWG exist...right? :-) Right I was just saying this is a bigger problem than this one API and makes sense to work on separately. > I think it's important to decide which behavior makes the most sense and > standardize on it. The way things are now is pretty useless to eveyone. Not useless. Overriding a host object's methods is pretty rare. - a
