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Bug 12721 - doc.all note should reference ES5
Summary: doc.all note should reference ES5
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (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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Reported: 2011-05-23 11:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-15 09:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-05-23 11:24:15 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/obsolete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#other-elements,-attributes-and-apis

Comment:
doc.all note should reference ES5

Posted from: 91.181.64.45 by ms2ger@gmail.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110422 Firefox/6.0a1
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:22 UTC
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-11 22:32:32 UTC
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I don't understand. Could you elaborate?
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2011-08-12 08:34:21 UTC
Note: These requirements are a willful violation of the JavaScript specification current at the time of writing (ECMAScript edition ---> 3 <---). The JavaScript specification requires that the ToBoolean() operator convert all objects to the true value, and does not have provisions for objects acting as if they were undefined for the purposes of certain operators. This violation is motivated by a desire for compatibility with two classes of legacy content: one that uses the presence of document.all as a way to detect legacy user agents, and one that only supports those legacy user agents and uses the document.all object without testing for its presence first. [ECMA262]
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-15 05:01:26 UTC
Ah, I see. Sorry, I was confused by the term "reference".

EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 5 contributor 2011-08-15 05:03:00 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6456.
Check-in comment: update this comment (sadly it has not changed)
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6455&to=6456