- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:38:16 -0800
On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 3/10/10 12:45 PM, Mike Samuel wrote: >>> FWIW, in Gecko currently, the stringification happens a few >>> abstraction layers away from the parser, so implementing your >>> suggestion would involve punching holes in those abstractions. >> >> Ah, so there's a layer that sits between the XPCOM object and the JS >> Host object that knows a DOMString is expected, and does the JS foo >> necessary to convert to a string? > > That's correct. The C++ object just implements a method as declared > in the DOM IDL; there is a glue layer responsible for coercing the > arguments actually given to the types declared in the IDL. This > isn't just the case in Gecko; Webkit+JSC has similar behavior. Correct, the type coercion is autogenerated code based on IDL. > I'd assume that Webkit+V8 does as well, though I haven't looked at > the code. V8's DOM bindings are autogenerated from the same IDL and in roughly the same way as the ones for JavaScriptCore, so yes. Regards, Maciej
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