- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:00:26 +0300
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-dom@w3.org, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Olli@pettay.fi
On 4/12/10 10:52 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:43:19 +0200, Olli Pettay<Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> >> wrote: >>> >>> in http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9336 there is a >>> proposal to "Remove concept of views" and move the property of >>> AbstractView to HTML5's Window and the property of DocumentView to >>> HTMLDocument. >>> >>> Pretty much everyone implements AbstractView and DocumentView [1][2] in >>> some way and since those interfaces are trivial I don't quite see the >>> reason for the proposed change. >> >> It removes the need to expose the interfaces on the global object. It >> removes the suggested need to implement a views concept which we agreed >> during the F2F was not something that was going to happen and does not work >> very well with how the global and other objects have been extended in the >> past decade. > > Yeah, I think the most important goal is to remove the idea that a > Document could have several Views attached to it. One advantage of > removing that idea is that we are free to expose layout related > information directly on Node objects and Range objects. > > / Jonas > Nothing forces us to keep "support for several views" even if we don't deprecate D2V. -Olli
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