- From: Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:35:10 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
From: Boris Zbarsky [mailto:bzbarsky@mit.edu]
> How is that black-box observably different from having every single Web IDL method be [ImplicitThis]?
Having thought about this for a bit, I think it is not different. If you picture the beginning of every WebIDL method as beginning with
const thisToUse = this === undefined ? window : this;
if (!brandCheck(this, <<interfaceSpecificBrandHere>>)) { throw new TypeError(); }
then all the cases except methods on Window/objects in Window's prototype chain will just fail the second line if the first line coerces undefined to window.
The only exceptions I can think of are maybe [LenientThis], and any WebIDL methods that don't happen to check branding, which I am not sure is possible.
Received on Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:35:38 UTC