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Re: Bug in Contacts Web IDL (and Calendar)

From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:08:31 +0200
Cc: public-device-apis@w3.org
Message-Id: <8E8FD703-CFFC-4828-A446-0F153C8EFB32@berjon.com>
To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> 
On Jun 29, 2011, at 14:12 , Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> The Contacts API currently defines it find() method as special caller
> method; I'm not sure why it is so, but that's not compatible with Web
> IDL: the find() method has optional arguments, and Web IDL forbids
> special operations with optional arguments.

According to comments in the examples it is so that navigator.contacts(...) can work. Personally, I'm not a fan and won't mind if that feature goes (besides, ReSpec doesn't like it :).

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