[whatwg] Renaming Interface Window

[Davidlee]

Don't mean to jump in here but could it be that what you are referring to is
what we have been calling "Hyv" (short for hypervideo...i.e. anything that
is a layer of interface system directions/links etc)?

dl

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
> > Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > ...
> > > As far as I can tell that would be wrong. The Window object is a DOM
> object,
> > > it's not the same as the browsing context, which is a UA construct.
> >
> > Can you help me understand this a bit more?  I guess by "The Window
> > object is a DOM object" you mean "Window() is a global javascript
> > function we can use to construct objects and it is defined as part of
> > the Document Object Model"?
>
> I mean that it is a Web IDL interface exposed in Web browsers as the
> interface object that the global object has in its prototype chain.
>
>
> > How is "The Window object" related to "interface Window" of the HTML5
> spec?
>
> It's the same thing. To be precise I should call it the Window interface,
> not the Window object.
>
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