- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:58:05 +0100
- To: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
- Cc: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights@google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> > wrote: >> "DOMRectReadOnly" means that this interface provides only read access to >> the object. It says nothing about whether there are ways to mutate the >> object, whether through other interfaces on the same object or via related >> DOM objects (e.g. when a DOMRectReadOnly is returned by the "bounds" >> attribute of a mutable DOMQuad). This name may be confusing, > > The notion that the "Only" in the name refers only to the interface and not > the object is confusing and bizarre. None of "DOM", "Rect", or "Read" refer > to the interface, they all refer to the object. We have the same notion elsewhere though. E.g. a <input readonly> cannot be modified by the user, but can be modified through script. Attributes annotated in IDL with "readonly" have the same behavior. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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