- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:16:18 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: public-script-coord@w3.org
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 10/5/12 4:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > 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.)
>
> In Chrome and Safari, I don't think it's possible to modify the behavior of
> element.href, so it's impossible to test there.
>
> In Gecko and Presto and IE9, this testcase:
>
> <pre><script>
> var a = document.createElement("a");
> a.href = "http://w3.org"
> document.writeln(a.toString());
> document.writeln(a.href);
> Object.defineProperty(a, "href", { value: "Haha" });
> document.writeln(a.toString());
> document.writeln(a.href);
> </script>
>
> writes out "http://w3.org" three times, then "Haha". Which is consistent with
> how I want the WebIDL spec to work, not with how it works right now.
Makes sense to me. Heycam tells me he's going to fix this in WebIDL; if
that ends up not happening, please let me know so I can fix it in HTML
instead.
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