Relationship between globals, Realms, and global environment records

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 11/25/14, 11:11 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> regarding
>
>     var document = someDocument.open(...);
>
> perhaps you can model this by saying that every Document object is created in a new Realm.

Can you explain what problem you're trying to solve here, precisely? 
I'm not sure there's even a problem here, fwiw.  But creating every 
Document object in a new Realm is not obviously web-compatible (or more 
precisely would require some pretty major gyrations around the 
transition from the initial about:blank to a same-origin document to 
make it web-compatible: the entire state of the Realm at the point of 
transition would need to be copied over to the new Realm.  It's simpler 
to just use the same Realm).

-Boris