[Bug 25923] isTypeSupported should be asynchronous

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25923

--- Comment #41 from David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com> ---
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky from comment #40)
> I have one nit about the text.
> 
> >         1. If the member's name is unrecognized or unhandled 
> 
> Then the implementation won't see it.  Dictionaries in Web IDL work by
> taking arbitrary objects and snapshotting the values of the properties the
> dictionary cares about.  Other properties are ignored, because they have
> nothing to do with the dictionary.
> 
> What this means is that if you pass some non-standard value in this
> dictionary to an implementation that follows the standard, it will just
> ignore it.

Thanks. I'll remove this when implementing. I may add a note that such values
are ignored and not used in the decision, meaning an application using them
will somehow need to verify the returned object. Better to just not use them,
though.

Thanks for the details on sequence too.

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Received on Monday, 6 October 2014 17:34:59 UTC