On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:33 AM, David Levin <levin@chromium.org> wrote: > Making people use a helper function like that is just making them jump an >> unnecessary hoop. >> > > It makes them jump through another hoop to potentially misuse the api. > No, it's another hoop that *everyone* has to jump through to use the API at all, so code you write in browser N+1 would also work in browser N where fewer classes support transfer. Jumping that hoop is not the misuse; it's a direct requirement of the API. *Because* everyone would be doing that, the misuse will also be possible. Also, I haven't seen mention of Transferrable else where in the final > proposed solution which you used in that code. > It's an interface to indicate that an object is transferrable, to allows feature testing. http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110617#l-1427 -- Glenn MaynardReceived on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 09:31:44 UTC
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