Re: Possible compat problem with treating undefined as not passed in WebIDL from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-10-04 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:20:03 -0400
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
CC: Joshua Bell <jsbell@google.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <524EDCA3.5090308@mit.edu>

On 10/4/13 11:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> So the other values are EmptyString and Null. We could make those ""
> and null and then they would actually be useful values you could
> generate code from.

True, I guess.

> Having said that, it's not clear we use
> TreatUndefinedAs today. It's not in DOM or HTML.

Interesting.  I thought there were uses, but I'm not obviously seeing 
any in the objects we've converted to WebIDL in Gecko so far.

Maybe we don't need any sort of TreatUndefinedAs at all... ;)

-Boris

Received on Friday, 4 October 2013 15:20:37 UTC