[whatwg] DOMTimeStamp binding

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Thu Feb 12 11:29:10 PST 2009


* Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
>DOM 3 Core says this about DOMTimeStamp:
>
>> For Java, DOMTimeStamp is bound to the long type. For ECMAScript, DOMTimeStamp
>> is bound to the Date type because the range of the integer type is too small.

The former WebAPI working group discussed this issue and found that the
reasoning behind this was bogus and, taking into account deployed imple-
mentations resolved, to change the binding to the Number type. DOM Level
3 Events does as much, along with pointing out the Group's intent to up-
date DOM Level 3 Core accordingly (see the "Changes" appendix).
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