Re: How to specify an object that can be mutable or immutable from Anne van Kesteren on 2013-09-25 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:56:07 -0400
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78h7dmhjMWJKRUk=MkhhwH1d_fuhoZkiyfsaNbguA2j3ew@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> Traditionally, I think DOM specs have just required to either throw or no-op
> in the immutable state, regardless of JS strict mode. CSSOM's
> CSSStyleDeclaration#cssText attribute is an example that always throws.

Are there any other examples that are not killed off?


> Boris Zbarsky suggested it might be better to have two separate interfaces,
> with the mutable interface has settable attributes and the immutable
> interface has readonly attributes.

We do this for URL: http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#api


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