Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming

On 10/31/11 2:03 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> On 31/10/11 1:56 PM, Alex Russell wrote:
>> Live NodeList instances don't need to be considered here. They're the
>> result of an API which generates them, and that API can be described
>> in terms of Proxies. No need to complicate NodeList or imply that we
>> need a different type.
>>
>> Making NodeList instances real array unifies them all. We can get 
>> that done too.
>
> Don't live and static NodeLists use the same prototype?  If they are 
> separate, I don't see any problem with making them "real arrays", but 
> I am not sure what the implications of that are.  Array.isArray == 
> true, I guess?  Do we have that ability within the bounds of 
> ECMAScript yet? Note that we can already make NodeList.prototype === 
> Array.prototype if we want, using appropriate Web IDL annotations.
Array seems to work fine in WebKit:
document.getElementsByTagName('div').__proto__.__proto__ = Array.prototype;

dojo just reimplements NodeList as an array:
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojo/NodeList.html

I don't understand what "real array" means, other than the prototype 
equivalence.

If NodeList were an array, what's the behavior of running push on NodeList?
The list may end up with non-node objects if push is not supplemented.

-Charles

Received on Monday, 31 October 2011 21:18:45 UTC