Re: Interaction of dictionaries and platform objects is a bit weird from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-10-23 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:06:24 -0400
To: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
CC: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <508609B0.6040601@mit.edu>

On 10/22/12 9:18 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:
> A somewhat related issue is that there's no way for a developer to know
> whether the object being passed in is a dictionary or an object that is
> actually held onto.

Well, short of looking at the IDL for the method they're calling and 
then following the link to the definition of the identifier used for the 
argument in that idl to see whether it's a dictionary or a callback 
interface, right?

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 03:06:53 UTC