* Andrew Oakley wrote: >Simon Pieters wrote: >> >> What should happen when you assign something to a constant? e.g.: >> >> Node.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world'; >> >> Web IDL doesn't say, AFAICT. Firefox and Opera allow the assignment. In >> WebKit it silently fails. I had expected an exception to be thrown, just >> like for readonly attributes. >> >> It'd be good if this was defined. >> > >http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/Binding4DOM/#es-constants says the >property has attributes { DontDelete }. That would imply that it >doesn't have the ReadOnly attribute, and as such the assignment should >be allowed.
With ReadOnly setting would be silently ignored, without ReadOnly you know nothing. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
