- From: Andrew Oakley <andrew@ado.is-a-geek.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:03:31 +0100
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> What should happen when you assign something to a constant? e.g.:
>
> Node.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world';
>
> Web IDL doesn't say, AFAICT. Firefox and Opera allow the assignment. In
> WebKit it silently fails. I had expected an exception to be thrown, just
> like for readonly attributes.
>
> It'd be good if this was defined.
>
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/Binding4DOM/#es-constants says the
property has attributes { DontDelete }. That would imply that it
doesn't have the ReadOnly attribute, and as such the assignment should
be allowed.
Received on Friday, 13 June 2008 02:37:37 UTC