Re: [css-variables] How to spec the OM for vars? from Cameron McCormack on 2012-08-24 (www-style@w3.org from August 2012)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:22:58 +1000
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
CC: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <50370FB2.7060707@mcc.id.au>

Boris Zbarsky:
> Obviously you could also log and then forward to the original getter or
> setter and so forth.  People do this all the time right now with methods
> in the web platform.  Granted, for methods there's a bit less
> boilerplate needed.

You could define it so that the getters/setters call 
getProperty/setProperty methods on the object, so authors could then 
intercept property accesses there.  (Same for variables, if we wanted to 
allow interception of variables.)  Not sure whether that's a good idea, 
performance-wise though.

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