[whatwg] structured clone algorithm should be defined for primitive values from Ian Hickson on 2011-01-31 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from January 2011)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:14:36 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1101312313160.26730@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, David Flanagan wrote:
> 
> The structured clone algorithm is currently defined only for object 
> inputs and doesn't say what should happen when a primitive value is 
> passed to it.  (The internal structured cloning algorithm handles 
> primitives, but the outer level one does not.)
> 
> Browser implementations allow primitives such as strings to be passed to 
> History.pushState(), window.postMessage() and other methods that 
> reference the structured clone algorithm.
> 
> I think you can fix this by changing "object" to "value" in four places

Fixed. Thanks.

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