Re: Property Selector

On 7/19/10, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 7/19/10 8:12 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>> On 7/19/10, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>  wrote:
>>> On 7/19/10 3:39 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>>>> On 7/19/10, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>   wrote:
>>>>> On 7/19/10 2:50 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>>>>>> So the problem is where the property is a getter and that getter has
>>>>>> side effects and the side effects include modifying the DOM.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> In Gecko, sure.  For example offsetWidth.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What is the side effect in the DOM from getting offsetWidth?
>>>
>>> In Gecko, due to the existence of XBL, arbitrary script can run under
>>> the getter (since getting offsetWidth requires flushing out pending
>>> style and layout changes and flushing out pending style changes can
>>> attach XBL bindings and run their constructors).
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't pending layout changes need to be flushed prior to the query?
>
> I'm not sure I follow the question....  What query?
>

Any NodeSelector.query.

Garrett

Received on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 02:08:07 UTC