- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:23:10 +1000
- To: Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak: > I noted that the XMLHttpRequest property should be defined in the > ECMAScript bindings to also have the [[Construct]] internal property. > So you could write either what you said, or > > myXHR = new XMLHttpRequest(); > > Which I think does add a new way to do it, but corresponds well to > the way constructor functions work for ECMAScript built-in classes > (they can all also be called as functions). Mostly, but not always, resulting in some different functionality than calling the constructor. Opera does allow you to call XMLHttpRequest as a function, which does the same thing as using it as a constructor. +0, for the lack of a better way to construct the object (the cuteness bothers me slightly). -- Cameron McCormack ICQ: 26955922 cam (at) mcc.id.au MSN: cam (at) mcc.id.au http://mcc.id.au/ JBR: heycam (at) jabber.org
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