Re: Removing 'caller' from WebIDL

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:32:03 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 8/30/11 3:03 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:08:59 +0200, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm open to removing "caller" from Web IDL if people think that's
>>> best, and I'd be happy to suggest wording to be added to the HTML spec
>>> to handle the cases that do need to remain.
>>
>> I think we should keep it in IDL because it needs to be implemented
>
> Where does it need to be implemented other than document.all?
>
> If it only needs to be implemented in one place, why does it need to be  
> a general IDL-based mechanism?

I guess if that is the only place it can be in HTML directly. (I thought  
there was another, but I guess we removed that.) I like that you can see  
it directly from the IDL-snippet, but I don't feel too strongly.


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Anne van Kesteren
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