On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 1/4/12 3:10 AM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > >> Can we move frames away from being own properties of the window > > (i.e. move them onto some prototype)? That seems like the >> "simplest" (in terms of how it works, not in terms of expressing it >> in WebIDL) way of making var shadow their names. >> >> >> Seems fine to me. I don't see any downsides. Maybe I just don't >> understand the implications. :) >> > > Well, it's not describable in WebIDL as it stands. That's the main > downside from a spec perspective. > > The other one is the usual "it's a behavior change, might break sites" > thing. IE and Opera already do this and have done so for a long time, right? That makes me slightly less worried about the behavior change.
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