Re: [XHR] Constructor behavior seems to be underdefined

Boris Zbarsky:
> And just to be clear, the discussion about security and document.domain
> is somewhat orthogonal to the original issue.  WebIDL requires that all
> objects be associated with a particular global and that any spec
> defining anything that creates an object needs to define how this
> association is set up.  For the particular case of constructors, that
> means that either WebIDL needs to have a default (that particular specs
> may be able to override) or that any spec that uses constructors needs
> to explicitly define the global association (which is not quite
> identical to things like which origin and base URI are used).

Would it make sense to require objects that are returned from a 
constructor be associated with the same global that the constructor 
itself is?

Received on Monday, 2 April 2012 22:47:15 UTC