Work-around for FireFox: patch non-leaf types statically if possible.

client/dom/generated/src/frog/Node.dart

 
-class Node native "*Node" {

[Emily Fortuna, 2011/12/06 18:19:35]

Just so I  fully understand what's going on here, what did the * previously
signify?

[sra1, 2011/12/06 19:25:30]

See frog/type.dart
/**
 * Information about a native type from the native string.
 *
 *  "Foo"  - constructor function is called 'Foo'.
 *  "=Foo" - a singleton instance that should be patched directly. For example,
 *           "=window.console"
 *  "*Foo" - name is 'Foo', constructor function and prototype are not available
 *      in global scope during initialization.  This is characteristic of many
 *      DOM types like CanvasPixelArray. However, the *type name* is presumed to
 *      be available at runtime from the prototype.
 *  "@Foo" - the type of the global object. Members will be treated as names
 *      that can't be shadowed in generated JS.
 */
// TODO(jmesserly): we really need a richer annotation system than just encoding
// this data in strings with magic characters.
class NativeType {

+class Node native "Node" {
 
   static final int ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;
 
   static final int CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;
 
   static final int COMMENT_NODE = 8;
 
   static final int DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;
 
   static final int DOCUMENT_NODE = 9;
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   Node removeChild(Node oldChild) native;
 
   void removeEventListener(String type, EventListener listener, [bool useCapture = null]) native;
 
   Node replaceChild(Node newChild, Node oldChild) native;
 
   var dartObjectLocalStorage;
 
   String get typeName() native;
 }