[whatwg] Window and WindowProxy

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Sep 23 13:25:40 PDT 2013


On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> What Gecko does is that there is a set of canonical prototypes (the DOM 
> ones, Object.prototype, Array.prototype, etc) per global.  The effective 
> script origin of a global is mutable.  The effect of changing the 
> effective script origin of a global on the prototypes associated with 
> that global is that nothing at all happens to them: they stay as the 
> same objects.
> 
> Now what happens to actual objects and their proto chains when they go from
> being same-effective-script-origin to not or back...  I'm not actually sure.
> Bobby Holley probably knows, though; I think this is basically the situation
> he's talking about in
> <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20701#c38>.

Isn't the answer to this question basically the answer to this thread?


This new ES5/ES6 stuff all goes over my head, to be honest. I can't wrap 
my head around the implications, especially in a multi-global (let alone 
multi-origin) environment.

Is there any chance people who do understand this stuff can tell me what 
it should do? Ideally people from more than one browser vendor, since all 
the browsers disagree and I get really different answers when I speak 1:1 
to individuals from various browser vendors.

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