Re: document.register and ES6

I just made sure it worked, and it does. As for developers freaking out, I
really don't believe they would. If that was the case,
Object.defineProperties should be causing a global pandemic of
whopperdeveloper freakouts (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhF6Kr4ITNQ).

This would give us easy IE compat for the whole range of property types,
and I'm willing to all but guarantee developers will have a bigger freakout
about not having IE9 support than the prototype property of
document.register taking both a baked and unbaked object.

Daniel J. Buchner
Product Manager, Developer Ecosystem
Mozilla Corporation


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> So you're directly setting the user-added methods on matched elements in
>> browsers that don't support proto, but what about accessors?
>>
>
> I believe those can be forwarded too, I just didn't bother in my fiddle.
>
>
>> Equipped with the unbaked prototype descriptor, in your upgrade phase,
>> you should be able to simply bake the node with:
>> Object.defineProperties(element, unbakedPrototypeDescriptor) - right?
>>
>
> Yes, but I believe developers would freak out if we required them to
> provide that type of descriptor (I would).
>
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