Re: Storage 'length' and enumeration from Boris Zbarsky on 2009-04-30 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2009)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:00:03 -0700
To: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <49F92243.1090700@mit.edu>

Sean Hogan wrote:
> I was following the discussion, and the point is that array-like 
> behavior is implied but not consistently delivered.

Implied by what?  The presence of the "length" property?

> Anyway, as you point out, for this interface Firefox gives precedence to 
> NameGetters over IndexGetters.

Firefox doesn't implement IndexGetters at all for this interface, to my 
knowledge.  I don't know why offhand; were they a recent addition to the 
spec?

> In the spec it doesn't seemed defined.

If so, that should be fixed.

> FYI, other collections in Firefox give precedence to IndexGetters.

Yep.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 30 April 2009 04:00:47 UTC