- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:43:33 +0200
- To: Andrew Oakley <andrew@ado.is-a-geek.net>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
* Andrew Oakley wrote:
>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.
With ReadOnly setting would be silently ignored, without ReadOnly you
know nothing.
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