- From: Darin Fisher <darin@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:29:08 -0800
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 11/25/09 6:20 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> - script calling a method implemented in native code on a host object >> > ... > > If this is a MUST, this seems like a possible compat issue depending on > whether the method is native or library-provided, at the very least. There's > also been talk at least in Gecko of self-hosting some DOM methods in JS > (e.g. getElementById), at which point they will no longer be implemented in > native code. > > I'm not sure this is a fatal issue (and I haven't been following this > thread closely enough in general to be sure of anything); just pointing out > that it's an issue. > > -Boris > I had a similar thought as it pertains to Chrome. I also worry about having to do some "storage mutex" processing for every native call. That seems like unfortunate overhead. -Darin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20091125/1ca11830/attachment.htm>
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