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Bug 10627 - Where this says "Number object" and "String object", it should say "number" and "string". Normal strings and numbers are not objects. A "String object" is actually a different kind of thing (rarely used).
Summary: Where this says "Number object" and "String object", it should say "number" a...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 10628 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-09-13 23:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-09-13 23:41:16 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#safe-passing-of-structured-data

Comment:
Where this says "Number object" and "String object", it should say "number"
and "string". Normal strings and numbers are not objects. A "String object" is
actually a different kind of thing (rarely used).

Posted from: 63.245.220.240
Comment 1 Anne 2010-09-24 09:10:41 UTC 
*** Bug 10628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-29 07:03:33 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.

Let me know if I screwed it up. I'm pretty sure we have to handle the objects too, I just forgot about the non-object forms. (I still don't really see where in the spec they get coerced back and forth but that's another story.) I also added Boolean which I'd forgotten.
Comment 3 contributor 2010-09-29 07:03:52 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5549.
Check-in comment: Oops, forgot that numbers and Numbers were distinct in JS.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5548&to=5549