[whatwg] WebIDL vs HTML5 storage changes

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On May 19, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
>  If "storage.keyName = 'value';" can create a new storage item
>> (persistently), won't authors expect "delete storage.keyName;" to remove it
>> (persistently), as a matter of consistency?
>>
>> If overloading "delete" is too quirky or too hard to implement, then it
>> seems none of the other shorthands should be allowed either.
>>
>
> Many objects in the DOM implement custom name getters (for instance
> NodeList) and a few even implement custom name setters (CSSStyleDeclaration,
> at least the way it is done in WebKit) but no one has clamored for a custom
> deleter or expected delete to work "as a matter of consistency" or been
> confused that "style.opacity = 0" is allowed but "delete style.opacity" is
> not. So I would say the available evidence argues against your conclusions.
>

I think 'style' does not bear on my conclusions, since 'style' has custom
property getters and setters, but not *adders* --- "style.foobar = ...;"
does not trigger any DOM API. Storage is different, it is something new.

Rob
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