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Re: [XBL] Introduction

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:47:42 +1100
To: public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <20070113054742.GI27720@arc.mcc.id.au>

Ian Hickson:
> So I did some research, and ECMA 262 does have getters and setters. They 
> just haven't actually made it all the way through ECMA's standardisation 
> process yet. I've added a link to drafts of ECMA262-4 to the spec. I've 
> also clarified that while the examples use getters and setters, this 
> doesn't imply that they must be supported (or indeed that JS at all must 
> be supported, in any version).

Ok, thanks.

> We need getters and setters for XBL2, otherwise we can't do attributes, 
> which is a rather critical requirement. I don't really have a better 
> suggestion.

I agree that getters and setters make for much nicer implementation
objects.

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