On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
(I made a comment on the doc along these lines but I am uncertain about
whether these comments work).
They work. :-)
The HTML5 spec uses the heavily overloaded word Window for an interface:
Ian Hickson wrote:
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As far as I can tell that would be wrong. The Window object is a DOM
object, it's not the same as the browsing context, which is a UA
construct.
Can you help me understand this a bit more? I guess by The Window
object is a DOM object you mean Window() is a global
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
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As far as I can tell that would be wrong. The Window object is a DOM object,
it's not the same as the browsing context, which is a UA construct.
Can you help me understand this a bit more? I guess by The Window
object is
Don't mean to jump in here but could it be that what you are referring to is
what we have been calling Hyv (short for hypervideo...i.e. anything that
is a layer of interface system directions/links etc)?
dl
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009,
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Davidlee wrote:
Don't mean to jump in here but could it be that what you are referring
to is what we have been calling Hyv (short for hypervideo...i.e.
anything that is a layer of interface system directions/links etc)?
I believe we are referring to:
we(my production teams) have been using it in transmedia interface systems
and story structures when referring to the layering of data into video in
other formats such as flash...
seems from the untrained ear (me) it is essentially what you are
discussing..
I apologize if I misunderstand.
dl
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
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As far as I can tell that would be wrong. The Window object is a DOM object,
it's not the same as the browsing context, which is a UA construct.
Can you help me
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
I mean that it is a Web IDL interface exposed in Web browsers as the
interface object that the global object has in its prototype chain.
By the global object, do you mean window in the Javascript sense?
window is a property of the global object
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, John J Barton wrote:
I mean that it is a Web IDL interface exposed in Web browsers as the
interface object that the global object has in its prototype chain.
By "the global object", do you mean "window" in the
On 12/14/09 12:04 PM, John J Barton wrote:
Thanks, I understand that the global object in Javascript has a property
'window' which references the global object
It does not, in fact. It references a different object, which has a
pretty intimate relationship with the global object. But you
Which brings me back to my original point. Web browsers have defined
'window'. The HTML5 spec cannot change that. But the interface called
Window in the current specification is not part of web browsers
javascript:alert(window instanceof Window) seems to be implemented the same
way in a
javascript:alert(window instanceof Window) seems to be implemented the
same way in a number of browsers, no?
As of right now, Window is only exposed in Firefox and IE. Safari and
Opera don't expose it. In Safari, alert(window) shows that window is an
instance of DOMWindow though, but Webkit
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