On Dec 24, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:

> I thought I'd give a heads up as over on www-...@w3.org we're
> discussing two cases where we likely need to change the prototype
> chain of objects: document.open() and methods that do the equivalent
> of document.adoptNode() (including that method itself):

Thank for the heads up. I'll chat with bz to get more of the back story. This 
is pretty effing awful. It may in fact be unavoidable but I'd like to make sure 
I understand why people feel there's no alternative; otherwise I may have to 
consider throwing my already mangled body in front of yet another train... ;-)

> It seems ES6 has __proto__ which also allows modifying [[Prototype]]
> so presumably this is nothing particularly bad, although it is very
> ugly :-(

It is never safe to assume that just because something is out there on the web 
that it is "nothing particularly bad"... (FML)

Dave

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