Re: [WebIDL] Should stringifiers use [[Get]] and [[Call]] or call the canonical getter/function? from Ian Hickson on 2012-10-05 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2012)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:53:54 +0000 (UTC)
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
cc: public-script-coord@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1210052053341.1904@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> And in particular, the way the spec is phrased right now means that this 
> bit of WebIDL from HTMLAnchorElement:
> 
>     stringifier attribute DOMString href;
> 
> does not have the same behavior as this bit would:
> 
>    attribute DOMString href;
>    stringifier DOMString();
> 
> with prose defining DOMString to do the same thing as the href getter.

Which do browsers do? (If either.)

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