The "initialization" steps for Web browsers

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> On 7/23/14, 12:45 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> Yes, but how does that then map into the ES invocation model.  If even handlers are just ordinary ES functions with an ordinary [[Call]]
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> They're not.  They're Web IDL callback objects constructed from such ES functions.  So this would be handled by http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-invoking-callback-functions and the "callback context" bits it talks about, I would htink.

Earlier in this thread we were originally talking about "event handler content attributers" and the possibility of doing something in ES Annex B to help define them.  But if they are WebIDL exotic functions then maybe that doesn't make so much sense. 

> 
>> I added [[HostDefined]] to jobs after we had a conversation that I believe was about maintaining a dynamic stack of script origins as code executes. At the time, you indicated tht you thought it was a sufficient hook. Do you still think that?
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> I think so, yes
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>> It's not clear to me how what we are discussing now relates to that.
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> Me neither, honestly.  :(  There are too many pieces here, all of them changing in parallel, and I'm not quite sure how they fit together right this second.  :(  I'm hoping Ian is keeping track of all of them and will figure out how they interact.
> 

My sense is that what we are missing is an "architecture" that actually defines how HTML and ES integrates.

Allen