Re: Conflicts between W3C specs and ES5?

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights@google.com> wrote:
> At the recent joint W3C / EcmaScript committee meeting, it was stated
> that the only known conflicts between HTML5 and related specs vs.
> EcmaScript 5 are
>  1) Is the global object the same as the object at the end of the
> scope chain? (HTML5: yes. ES5: no).

Oops. Parity error. That should be HTML5: no. ES5: yes.


>  2) What is document.all? (HTML5: a falsy host object. ES5: All
> objects (i.e., all non-primitive values) including all host objects
> are truthy.)
>
> Just now, by chance, I came across
> <http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_ECMAScript> which enumerates other
> alleged conflicts. What is the status of that page?
>
> --
>    Cheers,
>    --MarkM
>
>



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    Cheers,
    --MarkM

Received on Monday, 16 November 2009 08:29:28 UTC