hixie: clarification (whatwg r6085)

hixie: clarification (whatwg r6085)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4888&r2=1.4889&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6084&to=6085

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4888
retrieving revision 1.4889
diff -u -d -r1.4888 -r1.4889
--- Overview.html 5 May 2011 21:16:40 -0000 1.4888
+++ Overview.html 5 May 2011 21:31:59 -0000 1.4889
@@ -7125,7 +7125,7 @@
    <li>
 
     <p>If <var title="">input</var> is an Array object or an Object
-    object, then, for each enumerable property in <var title="">input</var>, add a corresponding property to <var title="">output</var> having the same name, and having a value
+    object, then, for each enumerable property in <var title="">input</var>, add a new property to <var title="">output</var> having the same name, and having a value
     created from invoking the <a href="#internal-structured-cloning-algorithm">internal structured cloning
     algorithm</a> recursively with the value of the property as the
     "<var title="">input</var>" argument and <var title="">memory</var> as the "<var title="">memory</var>"
@@ -7134,6 +7134,12 @@
 
     <p class="note">This does not walk the prototype chain.</p>
 
+    <p class="note">Property descriptors, setters, getters, and
+    analogous features are not copied in this process. For example,
+    the property in the input could be marked as read-only, but in the
+    output it would just have the default state (typically read-write,
+    though that could depend on the scripting environment).</p>
+
    </li>
 
    <li><p>Return <var title="">output</var>.</li>

Received on Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:34:40 UTC