Re: [WebIDL] troublesome names, property attributes and related issues from Allen Wirfs-Brock on 2011-08-26 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:21:08 -0700
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: public-script-coord@w3.org
Message-Id: <3DA908B7-786E-4BBF-9BA4-D9720379FA37@wirfs-brock.com>

On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
> <allen@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
>> 4.5.4 Constants
>> This section says that constants must be defined as properties on both the
>> interface prototype object and the interface object.  Browsers don't
>> currently seem to do this.  Try document.ELEMENT_NODE and
>> Document.ELEMENT_NODE
> 
> Both return 1 in Gecko. Haven't checked other browsers though.

Are you sure? I just tried evaluating both in FF6 using three different JS shells (web console, scratchpad, and squarefree).  In each case, document.NODE_ELEMENT returned 1 and Document.NODE_ELEMENT returned undefined.

Allen

Received on Friday, 26 August 2011 05:21:51 UTC