RE: SVG12: SVGGlobal::document vs AbstractView

But doesn't your proposed (a) [interface Global : views::AbstractView ] conflict with the defacto standard web today (both HTML and the smaller SVG ecosystem)? 

For ECMAScript, the entries on Global/SVGGlobal interface are supposed to be attached to the rootmost object within the ECMAScript scripting context, which means the Window object. Your proposed (a) would result in a 'document' attribute on the Window object which is of type "DocumentView" instead of type "Document". 

Here are the interfaces from DOM2 Views (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Views-20001113/views.html#Views-AbstractView):

interface AbstractView {
  readonly attribute DocumentView     document;
};
interface DocumentView {
  readonly attribute AbstractView     defaultView;
};

Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 9:17 AM
To: Jon Ferraiolo
Cc: doug.schepers@vectoreal.com; www-svg@w3.org
Subject: Re: SVG12: SVGGlobal::document vs AbstractView

* Jon Ferraiolo wrote:
>I am having trouble understanding why you feel that the 'document'
>attribute on Global should be an SVGDocument instead of a Document.

The SVG Working Group proposes that SVGGlobal::document is a Document,
Global::document is currently undefined. In other words we have

  interface Global    { }
  interface SVGGlobal { readonly attribute Document document; }

and I want (a)

  interface Global : views::AbstractView { }
  interface SVGGlobal : Global           { }

or failing that

  interface Global             { readonly attribute Document document; }
  interface SVGGlobal : Global { }

or failing that

  interface Global             { }
  interface SVGGlobal : Global { readonly attribute SVGDocument document; }

Now, (a) is implemented in several user agents, and in current drafts by
the Web API Working Group and the WHAT WG, so if there is anything wrong
with that I'd really like to know what. The other options are going to
cause problems if we ever want to do (a) as Robin already pointed out.
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