Re: Storage 'length' and enumeration from Sean Hogan on 2009-04-29 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2009)

From: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:57:20 +1000
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <49F8E960.1090000@westnet.com.au>

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Sean Hogan wrote:
>> sessionStore[2] = "howdy";
>> print(sessionStore[2]); // prints null?
>
> Where, exactly?  That gives "howdy" in Gecko, at least.  At least with 
> s/sessionStore/window.sessionStorage/.
>
> -Boris
>
I was following the discussion, and the point is that array-like 
behavior is implied but not consistently delivered.

Anyway, as you point out, for this interface Firefox gives precedence to 
NameGetters over IndexGetters. In the spec it doesn't seemed defined.
FYI, other collections in Firefox give precedence to IndexGetters.

Received on Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:01:28 UTC