Array Like Interface

[Brendan Eich]

On May 15, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:

> Note that the host object exceptions in the Es5 spec. permits, but  
> do not require that hosts take liberties with the ES specified  
> object semantics. In particular, there is no reason that a browser  
> cannot implement DOM objects as "native objects" rather than "host  
> objects".

This is what Gecko has done forever, likewise KHTML -> WebKit, AFAIK.

The only "host objects" in Mozilla code have been some LiveConnect  
(Java <-> JS bridge) ones, but those are being replaced by "native  
objects" too.


> Nor, from an ES specification perspective, there is no particular  
> reason that the ES binding of WebIDL should permit use of host  
> object semantics (which pretty means unspecified) rather than native  
> object semantics. However, those responsible for maintaining and  
> incrementally evolving existing implementations probably would have  
> a different take on this matter.



Anyone working on IE care to comment here, or in a w3c public list? If  
the latter, a folllowup giving a link to the thread here would be  
appreciated.

/be