- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:10:41 +0100
- To: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
- CC: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, Thaddee Tyl <thaddee.tyl@gmail.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
On 27/02/2013 21:47 , François REMY wrote: >> The script engine does not relate to clicking on things -- that >> happens in a browser. So do you feel that script engines must ship >> with a console? Or does that apply to web browsers? And if so, >> why? > > As Brian said, the UI itself should not be defined in the spec. > However, I feel like the object-to-string behavior should be > standardized so that any JS engine could be used reliably in a > command-line environment (ie console.log outputs the same string in > the console in all browsers/engines). I don't think that makes sense. The Console API should just be an API for sending data to a console of some form. Whatever happens there is entirely up to the implementation. And we definitely shouldn't assume that it's limited to text. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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