[whatwg] Renaming Interface Window

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> By "the global object", do you mean "window" in the Javascript sense?

"window" is a property of the global object (whose return value on getting 
happens to be the WindowProxy object -- also known as the "outer window" 
in some circles -- that proxies all operations to the global object).

So "yes and no", I guess.


> So it this correct:
> "The interface Window is exposed in Web browsers as properties of the global object 'window'?"

Not really. It's more the other way around.

 
> But since Javascript does not have a Window interface or any interface 
> in fact, in what sense is the Window interface implemented by existing 
> browsers? I understand that they have a 'window' object, but I don't 
> understand that they have the Window interface.

The Window interface object (as defined by the Web IDL specification) is 
what is on the global object's prototype chain in JavaScript.

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