On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> >> This was already discussed:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.w3.org/mid/CAAWBYDDF1fRrJj08AvFARfCstkQfgg=RH85n-UPh3ZZ_fjc2wA@mail.gmail.com
> >
> > Can we describe in IDL that the interface DOMPoint inherits from the
> > dictionary DOMPointLiteral?
> > It seems that there are some subtle differences between attributes and
> > dictionary member that is otherwise lost.
>
> There's no need to do any of this. It's very simple and easy. A
> DOMPoint satisfies the definition of a DOMPointLiteral - it's an
> object with the necessary named attributes. As long as we're not
> trying to do anything fancy just with "real" DOMPoints (which we
> aren't, and shouldn't), then just having the methods take a
> DOMPointLiteral is all we need to do.
>
OK. As long as we remember that going forward, this should be fine.
>
> A dictionary isn't a real "thing". It's just a description of a
> "shape" that objects have to have.
>