Re: Possible compat problem with treating undefined as not passed in WebIDL from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-10-18 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:56:55 -0400
To: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Message-ID: <52618477.7080602@mit.edu>

On 10/2/13 10:32 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> It's possible that in this case we can simply rewrite the IDL like so:

I've filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23564 to track 
this.

Furthermore, shipping this in Firefox nightlies found a similar problem 
with Node.cloneNode, affecting actual web sites (and pretty commonly 
too).  I've filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23565 
on that.

At that point, I checked for all "optional boolean whatever = true" in 
Gecko's WebIDL.  The only other consumer is Element.scrollIntoView. 
I've proactively filed 
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23566 for that.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 18 October 2013 18:57:23 UTC