[Bug 18547] Make all IDL methods have [ImplicitThis] behavior, and then get rid of [ImplicitThis]

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18547

Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |d@domenic.me
            Summary|Add [ImplicitThis] to       |Make all IDL methods have
                   |EventTarget?                |[ImplicitThis] behavior,
                   |                            |and then get rid of
                   |                            |[ImplicitThis]

--- Comment #9 from Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> ---
Per the thread starting at
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2015JanMar/0109.html,
and concluding around
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2015JanMar/0122.html,
we decided on an alternate plan, which I've now updated the title of the bug to
reflect:

- All IDL-defined methods should have the [ImplicitThis]-like behavior, where
if `this` is undefined, it becomes the global of the realm of the function
involved. (Or, the corresponding WindowProxy? ugh).

- This will cause brand check failures immediately when doing things like
`Node.prototype.insertBefore.call(undefined, ...)` since a Window is not a
Node. So this is good; a TypeError will be thrown as expected.

- Once this is done we can remove [ImplicitThis] from everywhere.

See also https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/643.

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