[whatwg] [URL] DOM API Feedback

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 08:16:45 PST 2012


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 11/19/12 2:36 AM, David Bruant wrote:
>>> I suppose the same goes for ES6 Map.
>>
>> As Tab suggested, a Map subclass could certainly work
>
> How close are "subclasses" to not being vaporware (both in spec and
> implementation terms)?  Speccing things in terms of vaporware makes them
> pretty hard to implement in actual implementations...  Doesn't mean we
> shouldn't do it, but I'm a bit wary of it, in general.

Subclasses aren't anything new - we're just referring to the standard
prototype-based subclassing.

~TJ



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