[webkit-dev] Multiple inheritance in the DOM

[Adam Barth]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Sam Weinig <sam at webkit.org> wrote:

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> On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at google.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns at adobe.com> wrote:
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>> From the WebIDL side, it's not strictly multiple inheritance. It's merely
>> a supplemental interface that more than one object can implement. None of
>> the members of the Region interface can clash with any of the members of
>> the object that implements it.
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>> Right now Elements can become CSS Regions, but in the future other objects
>> will be able to become CSS Regions. As far as I know, the correct way to
>> specify this kind of relation is with WebIDL supplemental interfaces. I'd
>> rather figure out the correct way to add this WebIDL functionality to
>> WebKit now, than put something else into the spec and WebKit that we'll
>> have to change later.
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> It seems like this should really be a [NoInterfaceObject]. That resolves
> the issue of multiple inheritance since you can no longer do instanceof
> Region, and I'm not sure why you'd ever want to do that anyway.
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> I agree.
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That doesn't solve the problem.  The problem arises from determining what
kind of wrapper to create for an WebCore::Region object (e.g., an Element
wrapper or a CSSPseudoElement wrapper).  It's easy for us to create the
proper constellation of prototype objects.

Adam
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