Re: ISSUE-68: What to do about window.location.toString()? from Maciej Stachowiak on 2006-04-04 (public-webapi@w3.org from April 2006)

From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 03:05:37 -0700
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-Id: <F6D01185-0ED7-4709-841E-7A85C2A53361@apple.com>

On Apr 4, 2006, at 3:03 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:59:57 +0200, Web APIs Issue Tracker <dean 
> +cgi@w3.org> wrote:
>> Should Location.toString() be removed from the IDL?
>
> I support removing it. Authors should just be encouraged to use  
> window.location.href (which is a string) whatever binding they  
> might use.

Nontheless, ECMAScript implementations need to implement it (and  
string conversion more generally) in order to be interoperable. But  
agreed that window.location.href is better than explicit toString()  
calls.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:06:09 UTC