- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 01:29:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Olli Pettay wrote: > > may I wonder why on earth any new API, like > link.sizes uses PutForwards? > IMHO, PutForwards should be limited to the > awkward DOM0 APIs like window.location. On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > What's wrong with PutForwards? On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Olli Pettay wrote: > > It makes getters and setters work in a very different way. > Inconsistency in APIs isn't a good thing. I don't understand how they work in a different way? The idea is to make the attribute appear to work like a DOMString for most purposes, but to allow methods to be invoked on it. (All the attributes that have [PutForwards] set also have a stringifier on their object's interface.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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