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Re: [Bindings] stringify

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:05:17 -0500
Message-ID: <476FCAAD.8000105@mit.edu>
To: Jim Ley <Jim@jibbering.com>
CC: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>


Jim Ley wrote:
> Could you describe the use cases for defining this at all?

Interoperability.  Specifying that Window stringifies to [object Window] 
is probably unnecessary (and not true in all UAs anyway).  But 
specifying that, Location stringifies to its .href property is needed 
(and is interoperably implemented).

-Boris

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