On Dec 31, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 12/30/12 2:16 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>> How bad would it be to make "<expr> instanceof <expression resolving to
>> WebIDL interface>" special-cased to re-map the RHS to the appropriate
>> WebIDL interface object for <expr>?
> 
> In terms of implementation complexity on our end, it's trivial as long as we 
> don't follow the WebIDL spec and make things like HTMLAnchorElement actual 
> Function instances.
> 
> In terms of specs and getting other UAs to go along... I don't know.

In this sea of terrible choices, how about making HTMLAnchorElement an actual 
function, but having it return "object" for typeof? That should be reasonably 
Web-compatible.

Andreas

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> -Boris
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