- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:39:33 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "John J. Barton" <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, John J. Barton wrote: > > Hi. I work on Firebug, a web page debugger for Firefox > (http://getfirebug.com). > > In attempting to show developers relevant information about all objects > in their program I was trying to display window.sessionStorage. In the > process I read the document http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/. I found > the document unnecessarily confusing because it uses the property > 'length' for Storage. This is the same property used by Javascript Array > type, but Storage is not an array and you cannot enumerate the elements > of the Storage object |s| using > for(var i = 0; i < s.length; i++)... This is in fact possible. > Using the term "enumeration" to mean "property enumeration" is also > confusing, but I suppose ECMA script made that mistake too long ago. I'm just following WebIDL's terminology here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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