- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:16:12 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 1/8/13 2:16 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > I don't know about Document, but I can definitely think of APIs where it > makes sense to be passing Window objects from other origins. Yeah, I can see exceptions for Window, possibly. > But if there's only one API that takes any of these four object types > currently (I couldn't find any that took Document or Window in the HTML > spec in a cursory look) then maybe it's not worth the bother. Wack a mole > isn't _so_ bad if it's one mole a decade. Actually, it is. In a whack a mole situation every single API added to the platform has to be carefully audited to make sure it doesn't introduce a mole. Which it won't be, because there are just not enough people qualified to do such an audit... -Boris
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