[whatwg] Overriding functions in DOM Storage

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
> >
> > What is the behavior of the following supposed to be?
> >
> > window.sessionStorage.removeItem = function(x) { alert("Wait, this
> works?"); };
> > window.sessionStorage.removeItem('blah');
> > alert(typeof window.sessionStorage.removeItem);
>
> The behaviour of these things are defined in WebIDL:
>
>   http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/
>
> ...which, as defined today, consists of setting 'removeItem' to a function
> value that doesn't persist.


Apologies.  I have looked through that, but apparently not closely enough.
 The relevant portions of the HTML 5 spec + all the specs it depends on is a
lot to grok...hence the occasional question like this.

Thanks for the response!
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