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Re: [matrix][cssom-view] DOMPoint, DOMPointLiteral definitions

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:42:32 -0400
Message-ID: <524277C8.4030105@mit.edu>
To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
So here's a question for mutable vs immutable DOMRect stuff.

Are there any cases in which we'd want to return a mutable DOMRect where 
returning a dictionary wouldn't work just as well?

As in, do we really just want to have an immutable DOMRect type and a 
DOMRectLiteral dictionary, and have things like getBoundingClientRect() 
return the latter, say?

-Boris

P.S. In a super-ideal world we may be able to have an interface with the 
getters and then a derived interface with the setters, but there's no 
really good way to do that in ES: you have to put the getters on both 
interfaces.  Which is also an option, of course; it just leads to some 
surprising results if you try to interpose those getters on the 
less-derived interface from script.
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