Re: [FileAPI] Why is FileList a sequence?

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:02:25 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Cameron McCormack wrote:
>> Anne van Kesteren:
>> > > > Lets at least remove sequence<T> from the draft then.
>>
>> Cameron McCormack:
>> > > Other specifications use it, and it really serves a different
>> > > purpose from things like NodeList, like passing in native Array
>> > > objects to DOM methods.  So I don’t think we should remove it.
>>
>> Anne van Kesteren:
>> > Which specifications use it then?
>>
>> The ones I could find were: Web Applications 1.0, RDFa API and The
>> System Information API (admittedly fewer than I thought!).
>
> Web Apps 1.0 will change if you need it to. Don't constrain on my account
> here. I'll do whatever you think we should do. The only places I use it
> are in an argument to a method because I want to allow authors to pass in
> literal JS Arrays of values, and on a NodeList descendant where I just
> wanted the user of the API to be able to get a JS Array of values. I  
> don't
> think there's much implementation compatibility constraint here.

Opera has implemented typedef sequence<MessagePort> MessagePortArray for  
cross-document messaging and shared workers. As far as I know, our impl is  
spec compliant, and I see little point in changing it.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software