Re: "var" declarations shadowing properties from Window.prototype from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-08-12 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:16:13 -0400
To: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
CC: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, public-script-coord@w3.org, es-discuss@mozilla.org
Message-ID: <5027E4DD.5080503@mit.edu>

On 8/11/12 10:57 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
> I think WebIDL and interface-based method definition made onload, e.g., predefined on
> window objects, or more recently on Window.prototype. Was this useful?

It's required for web compat, as I said earlier in this thread.  They 
_could_ perhaps be predefined as data properties set to null, but data 
properties which have as a side effect of setting them to a function 
object the registration of an event listener... which starts to look a 
lot like an accessor property to me.

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 12 August 2012 17:16:47 UTC