The "initialization" steps for Web browsers
Boris Zbarsky
bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Wed Jul 23 09:31:18 PDT 2014
On 7/23/14, 12:02 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> No, synchronous dispatchEvent looks like it could just work depending
> upon how the browser specific contextual state (origin, etc. scripting
> settings, etc. in the HTML spec.) is modeled.
It's modeled as "settings objects" (settings records, if you prefer).
Mostly. "origin" and "effective script origin" are computed from stuff
in the settings record.
> If dispatchEvent is going to synchronously dispatch event handlers it may
> have to do browser context switch for each handler. How does it know to
> do this?
Web IDL callbacks store the info they need to set up the call.
> Perhaps we also need a [[HostDefined]] field in Realm records?
> (Each function is associated with a realm, so it is a good place to put
> context that is shared by all functions for a specific realm).
In practice, each Realm has a unique global and the HTML spec ends up
hanging its stuff off there as far as I can tell.
-Boris
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