[whatwg] readystatechange for SCRIPT
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Fri Sep 9 18:10:08 PDT 2011
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> > >
> > > HTMLDocument, or Document?
> >
> > They're more or less the same, per spec.
>
> Well.... no, they're not. In particular, HTMLDocument.prototype is not
> on the prototype chain of XMLDocument.prototype in any UA I'm aware of,
> whereas Document.prototype is. Perhaps you're saying the spec will
> change that?
Right, hence "per spec". :-)
The idea is to move to a world with only one Document interface, which
contains everything from SVGDocument, HTMLDocument, Document, etc, because
it really makes no sense that SVG fragments in HTML documents can't use
the Document-level SVG APIs, and vice-versa.
Exactly how this is to happen is not yet clear.
> Now any given document object may implement both interfaces, but where
> properties live in the prototype chain is _very_ different depending on
> whether they're on Document or HTMLDocument. Again, assuming that there
> is a separate HTMLDocument interface object and so forth.
Right.
> > > If it's put on HTMLDocument exclusively, that would solve the
> > > XMLDocument.prototype problem as well. But the readyState property
> > > seems to be on Document, not HTMLDocument....
> >
> > HTMLDocument in the HTML spec defines HTMLDocument.readyState but
> > says:
> >
> > Document implements HTMLDocument;
>
> Doing that means that hooking HTMLDocument.prototype methods won't
> actually change methods on documents, right? How web-compatible is
> that?
I don't believe it's compatible at all. The spec is likely to change on
this matter.
> > There's been a suggestion that I should just define it as a partial
> > interface for Document instead and then define HTMLDocument ===
> > Document, but I haven't looked into that yet.
>
> That might actually be more web-compatible.... Maybe.
Yeah.
> > Since nobody seems to object, I'm going to revert r6543 and make
> > onreadystatechange special.
>
> Sounds good. Please let me know when the new spec text is up?
It is done.
http://html5.org/r/6550
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