- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:20:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... > > As far as I can tell that would be wrong. The Window object is a DOM object, > > it's not the same as the browsing context, which is a UA construct. > > Can you help me understand this a bit more? I guess by "The Window > object is a DOM object" you mean "Window() is a global javascript > function we can use to construct objects and it is defined as part of > the Document Object Model"? I mean that it is a Web IDL interface exposed in Web browsers as the interface object that the global object has in its prototype chain. > How is "The Window object" related to "interface Window" of the HTML5 spec? It's the same thing. To be precise I should call it the Window interface, not the Window object. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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