[Bug 21886] [Custom]: Define or link to what it means for a local name to be associated with an interface

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21886

--- Comment #14 from Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > - Maybe we could not bother doing prototype chain walking on register. If
> > the author wants to mess up prototype chains, let them.
> 
> wchen pointed out to me recently that because prototype chains are mutable,
> doing any sort of checking under document.register only gives hints to the
> authors at best. At worst, it prevents some overly-clever author from doing
> what he wants. Given that and the ambiguous prototype problem, it seems like
> we should basically just ignore the prototype for the purposes of document
> registration (except to associate the name with the prototype).

We still need to do some prototype chain walking, because we need to infer the
namespace for the custom element (it really is either HTML or SVG namespace).

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Received on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:30:16 UTC