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Bug 9480 - the type for getter WindowProxy() by index or name should be any, not WindowProxy, to match the description of its behavior below
Summary: the type for getter WindowProxy() by index or name should be any, not WindowP...
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: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-04-10 22:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-04-10 22:41:09 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#window

Comment:
the type for getter WindowProxy() by index or name should be any, not
WindowProxy, to match the description of its behavior below

Posted from: 131.107.0.109
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-13 08:22:15 UTC 
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:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Sorry, I'm slow today. What can be returned other than WindowProxy?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-13 08:24:51 UTC 
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:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Ok, I see the problem for the named case. What's the problem for the indexed case?
Comment 3 contributor 2010-04-13 08:26:55 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5024.
Check-in comment: named access on Window can return all kinds of things, not just other Windows
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5023&to=5024