[Bug 14072] Screen.alphaDepth missing

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14072

--- Comment #11 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > (In reply to comment #7)
> > > I wouldn't mind removing pixelDepth and colorDepth, which are equally
> > > "useless in practice" and possess no justification for inclusion other than
> > > they happen to be implemented in a bug-for-bug compatible manner.
> > 
> > Would you object if they were defined to return a predefined value of 24 and
> > the spec noted that they are useless but are included for compatibility?
> 
> No (I wouldn't object). But I would question the need or wisdom to codify
> such nonsense in a W3C spec. Just because some feature is implemented in
> some set of browsers is no reason to necessarily write it into a W3C spec.
> In this case, we would be better off to leave it out of the spec IMO.

If there is compat reason to do so, we leave them in and render them cheap and
useless.  If there's not, we drop them.  It's a really simple calculus.

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Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 07:00:32 UTC