[whatwg] Unforgeable document property

David Bruant bruant at enseirb-matmeca.fr
Fri Sep 23 02:58:26 PDT 2011


[with correct public-script-coord address]

Le 23/09/2011 11:54, David Bruant a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed on a recent commit [1] that the "document" property of 
> the window object is now defined as [[Unforgeable]] (and still 
> readonly). As per WebIDL, it makes the property non-configurable (in 
> ECMAScript 5 terms). Consequently, it will make impossible to wrap the 
> object document with an ES.next proxy [2] and replace the "document" 
> property value with the wrapped document.
>
> I think that there is definitely a use case here as replacing the 
> document with a proxy could help developers fixing the DOM and adding 
> workarounds to browser bugs. Consequently, I think the "document" 
> property of the window object should be kept configurable.
>
> David
>
> [1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6568&to=6569
> [2] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies




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