[whatwg] link.sizes and [PutForwards=value]

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Olli Pettay wrote:
> 
> may I wonder why on earth any new API, like
> link.sizes uses PutForwards?
> IMHO, PutForwards should be limited to the
> awkward DOM0 APIs like window.location.

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> What's wrong with PutForwards?

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Olli Pettay wrote:
>
> It makes getters and setters work in a very different way.
> Inconsistency in APIs isn't a good thing.

I don't understand how they work in a different way?

The idea is to make the attribute appear to work like a DOMString for most 
purposes, but to allow methods to be invoked on it. (All the attributes 
that have [PutForwards] set also have a stringifier on their object's 
interface.)

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