- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:26:52 -0400
- To: Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com>
- Cc: WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:13, Gavin Kistner wrote: > Several properties in > http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/ecma-script-binding.html > are referred to being a long object, as in: > > screenX > This read-only property is a long object. > > I assume this is supposed to mean 'long integer', since neither DOM 2 > Events or DOM 2 Core define this type of object. This is fine for the > public specification, but for this ECMAScript binding this should be > Number, should it not? (ECMAScript does not have a dedicated object > type for integers as opposed to floats.) > > Or is there a 'long' object described somewhere that I'm missing? > > (I ask because I'm pulling the specs into a DB: > http://phrogz.dnsalias.net/ObjJob/ > to both encapsulate inheritance hierarchy and also allow browsing of > the full properties/methods available to an object through its > inheritance, and my parser sort or hiccupped on this 'long' object, e.g. > http://phrogz.dnsalias.net/ObjJob/method.asp?id=612 > and I'd love to be able to change it to a number and assign it to the > ECMAScript Core language if that's the correct thing to do.) > > I can't seem to subscribe to this mailing list, so please CC me on > replies. This error has been fixed in DOM Level 3. The DOM WG did not go through its errata TODO list for quite sometimes [1] [1] On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:13, Gavin Kistner wrote: > Several properties in > http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/ecma-script-binding.html > are referred to being a long object, as in: > > screenX > This read-only property is a long object. > > I assume this is supposed to mean 'long integer', since neither DOM 2 > Events or DOM 2 Core define this type of object. This is fine for the > public specification, but for this ECMAScript binding this should be > Number, should it not? (ECMAScript does not have a dedicated object > type for integers as opposed to floats.) > > Or is there a 'long' object described somewhere that I'm missing? > > (I ask because I'm pulling the specs into a DB: > http://phrogz.dnsalias.net/ObjJob/ > to both encapsulate inheritance hierarchy and also allow browsing of > the full properties/methods available to an object through its > inheritance, and my parser sort or hiccupped on this 'long' object, e.g. > http://phrogz.dnsalias.net/ObjJob/method.asp?id=612 > and I'd love to be able to change it to a number and assign it to the > ECMAScript Core language if that's the correct thing to do.) > > I can't seem to subscribe to this mailing list, so please CC me on > replies. This error has been fixed in DOM Level 3. The DOM WG did not go through its errata TODO list for quite sometimes, and we really should. Philippe [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2003JulSep/0018.html
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