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Bug 12859 - An IDL block for window.postMessage is lacking from the W3C spec.
Summary: An IDL block for window.postMessage is lacking from the W3C spec.
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Messaging (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-06-02 18:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-11-11 19:48 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-06-02 18:38:14 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/postmsg/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
An IDL block for window.postMessage is lacking from the W3C spec.

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Comment 1 Arthur Barstow 2011-06-02 19:01:08 UTC 
Given the HTML5 spec includes the Web IDL for window.postMessage and that spec is a reference for Web Messaging, it seems like there is no need for Web Messaging to also include the IDL for window.postMessage.
Comment 2 Arthur Barstow 2011-06-02 19:50:28 UTC 
Delete comment #1 (I was looking at the wrong spec).
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-15 06:29:16 UTC 
This is the kind of mess we get when we arbitrarily split the specs. The right solution is to not split the specs.
Comment 4 Arthur Barstow 2011-06-24 13:01:00 UTC 
Sigh; the WebIDL piece does need to exist in some spec (and presumably a W3C spec). If the spec splitting tool(s) cannot handle this, is adding this Web IDL fragment by hand the only other option?
Comment 5 Arthur Barstow 2011-11-11 19:38:30 UTC 
Hixie - I just looked at this again and I agree it's not clear what IDL block is/was missing (I don't recall what I was thinking last June).

Perhaps this should be Resolved as NeedsInfo. WDYT?
Comment 6 Arthur Barstow 2011-11-11 19:41:10 UTC 
Ooops. I accidentally closed this bug so I am reopening it now.
Comment 7 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-11-11 19:48:20 UTC 
NEEDSINFO is fine by me. My guess is that this was originally just referring to the Window IDL block, but that's already in a W3C spec IIRC so it shouldn't be an issue.