Re: [ResourceTiming] Handling of "resourcetimingbufferfull" events makes no sense from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-10-11 (public-web-perf@w3.org from October 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:54:58 -0400
To: Sreeram Ramachandran <sreeram@google.com>
CC: Arvind Jain <arvind@google.com>, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com>, public-web-perf <public-web-perf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <52583B72.6080803@mit.edu>

On 10/11/13 1:24 PM, Sreeram Ramachandran wrote:
> Could you explain? Why isn't it sufficient to have this behaviour be
> implicitly defined by reference to EventTarget? (I.e., since any
> Performance object also implements EventTarget, the dispatch behaviour
> defined in EventTarget applies to Performance objects.)

EventTarget isn't an abstract interface.  It has internal state.

Again, WebIDL doesn't draw a clear distinction between abstract 
interfaces and classes that you're inheriting from, but in practice 
EventTarget should be the latter.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 11 October 2013 17:55:31 UTC