[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 27432] add read-write access to HTMLOptionElement text under GObject bindings

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27432


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |




--- Comment #12 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>  2009-07-23 16:06:48 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Given that the specification says that the property should be read-only we
> should not be making the property writable for any other bindings.  JavaScript
> is a special case as there is a wide range of existing content that is likely
> to rely on this behavior.  This same argument cannot be made about any other
> language as the property has never been writable for those languages.


sorry, mark, but you're forgetting about MSHTML (which has python-win32com and
much more), and XULrunner (which has native c++ bindings as well as xpcom to
which there is python and java), and you're forgetting KHTML.

so the statement that it has never been made writeable for those languages is
not true.  the statement that it has never been made writeable in _webkit_ for
any languages _is_ however true BUT:

it is a fallacy to conclude that just because nobody _has_ made it writeable
that it should not _be_ made writeable.

when somebody says, "if this feature isn't made writeable, it completely stuffs
up the use of webkit because the very features that are available in
javascript, for the exact same reasons, are required - REQUIRED.  i repeat
REQUIRED - in the language that's being used (which is python, in this case)".

so - i would appreciate it if you would not close this bug and would listen to
what i am saying, and take it into account.

i will do the research, checking to see if, in fact, HTMLOptionElement.text is
writeable under the competitor language bindings to webkit - MSHTML, XULrunner
and KHTML.

i trust that this research will be taken into consideration.

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