- From: Davidlee <dlwillson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:23:16 -0500
Don't mean to jump in here but could it be that what you are referring to is what we have been calling "Hyv" (short for hypervideo...i.e. anything that is a layer of interface system directions/links etc)? dl On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > 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. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20091214/43e90013/attachment.htm>
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