164410 2016-11-04 04:48:32 -0700 Regex special-casing removed from WebIDL spec 2022-09-04 13:24:03 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit Bindings WebKit Nightly Build Unspecified Unspecified NEW https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123416 P2 Normal --- 1 tobie.langel webkit-unassigned cdumez oldest_to_newest 1248097 0 tobie.langel 2016-11-04 04:48:32 -0700 Heads-up that we've stopped special casing Regexp in the WebIDL spec as of https://github.com/heycam/webidl/commit/bbb2bde Here's a diff of what that looks like in the rendered HTML spec: [diff]: https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.rawgit.com%2Fheycam%2Fwebidl%2F001ba52%2Findex.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.rawgit.com%2Ftobie%2Fwebidl%2F00b9786%2Findex.html That means that the following algorithms now allow regexes in places where they previously didn't: 1. to convert an ES value to a dictionary: https://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-dictionary 2. to convert an ES value to a sequence: https://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-sequence 3. to convert an ES value to a union type (step 5 and 11): https://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-union 4. the substeps of step 11 of the overload resolution algorithm: https://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-overloads There are also some modifications to the section on User objects implementing callback interfaces: https://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-user-objects I opened an issue against web-platform-tests's testharness to account for these changes: https://github.com/w3c/testharness.js/issues/223 Please raise any concerns by opening an issue against the spec: https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/new Thanks.