Re: [heycam/webidl] Add an algorithm to create a platform object. (#635)

Ms2ger commented on this pull request.



> @@ -12349,12 +12363,60 @@ It is the responsibility of specifications using Web IDL to state
 which global environment (or, by proxy, which global object) each platform
 object is associated with.
 
+<div algorithm>
+  To <dfn export lt="new|create|create a new|create an object implementing|create an object
+  implementing the interface">create an object implementing the interface</dfn> |interface| in the
+  Realm |realm|, with optional `new.target` value |newTarget|, perform the following steps:
+
+    1.  Assert: |interface| is [=exposed=] in |realm|.
+    1.  Let prototype be the [=interface prototype object=] for |interface| in
+        |realm|.
+    1.  If |newTarget| is provided, then:
+        1.  Issue: If we just pass {{NewTarget}} through in a constructor, would this not
+            always be defined (sometimes to the [=interface object=] itself)?

In the interest of making life easy for the users of the algorithm, I've pushed a change to do the object creation in WebIDL. If we're going to edit all the specifications that create objects anyway, we might as well make take the opportunity to simplify it as much as possible.

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