On 4/22/14, 2:51 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
I'm giving to thinking in terms of all of the magic hiding that
XPIDL/XPCOM/xpconnect does, so things like "what is my global object"
being intrinsically important are annoying to me.
I understand that.
but something like Promises or TextEncoder
wh
On 4/22/2014 5:55 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
On 22/04/2014 05:24, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
For more specific explanation then:
I have a (non-negotiably) JS-implemented XPCOM service called the Folder
Lookup Service. I want to add an API to it called getOrCreateFolder that
returns a Promise. I hav
On 22/04/2014 05:24, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
For more specific explanation then:
I have a (non-negotiably) JS-implemented XPCOM service called the Folder
Lookup Service. I want to add an API to it called getOrCreateFolder that
returns a Promise. I have non-negotiable C++ code that
wants to call t
On 4/22/2014 12:46 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 4/22/14, 12:24 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
I consider Promise more like a generic platform feature (considering
that the specification is moving to ES6 instead of DOM)
ES assumes you always have a global. In fact, until ES6 it assumed
that there
On 4/22/14, 12:24 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
I managed to, in one of my playground techniques, create a global using
a backstage pass and some xpconnect APIs, so it's not impossible but it
is damn annoying.
Right. If you don't have a global to start with, your life will
_really_ suck if you
On 4/21/2014 10:52 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 4/21/14, 11:35 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
I'm referring to using a Promise, essentially, in backend code of
Thunderbird. There is no "window"
I mean Window in the "DOM Window" sense.
Promises can be created using some other global (which one is
On 4/21/14, 11:35 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
I'm referring to using a Promise, essentially, in backend code of
Thunderbird. There is no "window"
I mean Window in the "DOM Window" sense.
Promises can be created using some other global (which one is up to the
person creating it), but typically
On 4/21/2014 9:34 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 4/21/14, 7:31 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
Now, creating a Promise (via mozilla::dom::Promise) from C++ and passing
it to JS is possible but kind of difficult, since I need to materialize
an nsIGlobalObject which requires too much code.
You basicall
On 4/21/14, 7:31 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
Now, creating a Promise (via mozilla::dom::Promise) from C++ and passing
it to JS is possible but kind of difficult, since I need to materialize
an nsIGlobalObject which requires too much code.
You basically need the window the promise will be associ
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