Re: [cgmo-webcgm] 5.7.10 Interface WebCGMEvent Example

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

At 08:45 AM 11/29/2005 -0500, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>Hi,
>
>   Could the author of the example in section 5.7.10

I didn't originally write it, but I worked on it, and EventListener example 
as well, because neither one worked as submitted to me.

>answer one
>   question:
>
>   Is var cgmDoc = new WebCGMMetafile(); valid?

No, the constructor function is not defined.  I was playing with this, as 
well as with EventListener (5.7.9) example.  In the latter, you'll see "new 
Object()", which is valid.  In haste, I didn't catch and fix the object 
creation line in the 5.7.10 example.


>   Itedo is not convinced it is valid since IE doesn't know about
>   WebCGMMetafile objects (i.e., it is not a predefined type).

You are right.  With a custom constructor like that, the function must be 
defined.


>   If other vendors are able to interpret such ecmascript, maybe they
>   can say so.

Curious that you ask the question.  One reason I didn't catch the error is 
that your beta (b4 and b5) code executes both examples successfully, on my 
WinXP with IE6.  (Have you subsequently changed the code so that the 
invalid case fails?).  I *did* execute each example before submitting the 
text for CS ballot.

Another item for the issues/errata queue.  Hmmm... Dave, do you know how we 
handle errata pages in OASIS?  (It's not like W3C, where the errata page is 
linked off of the cover page "Status" section with a persistent URL.  But 
Mary mentioned it once and I think there is something like a convention 
with a fixed location/naming construct.)

-Lofton.