Re: Should ByteString be a serializable type? from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-07-29 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:14:59 -0700
To: Norbert Lindenberg <ecmascript@lindenbergsoftware.com>
CC: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51F5D023.3030403@mit.edu>

On 7/28/13 11:59 AM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote:
> If I read the spec correctly, XMLHttpRequest is not serializable.

To be fair, XMLHttpRequest's definition predates the existence of 
serializable bits in WebIDL.  I agree that it probably _shouldn't_ be 
serializable (though likely is in WebKit/Blink because of how they 
implement attributes), so the issue is somewhat unimportant at the 
moment, but figured I would check in case someone defines an interface 
which uses ByteString but does want to be serializable (e.g. an object 
representing a subset of HTTP response headers or something).

-Boris

Received on Monday, 29 July 2013 02:15:37 UTC