Re: TextTrackCue discussions from Silvia Pfeiffer on 2013-09-20 (public-html@w3.org from September 2013)

From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:48:54 +1000
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, Brendan Long <self@brendanlong.com>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
Message-ID: <CAHp8n2ketqxs9Gxv8Yq6czCqsV5p9G-UMNNQo4k8hbrsd6K2cw@mail.gmail.com>

On 20 Sep 2013 21:31, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:13:55 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer <
silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> What would the text property contain when the browser doesn't know the
>>> encoding?
>>
>>
>> Return an empty string. That can also be used by the JS dev to know
>> that they need to look at the .data ArrayBuffer.
>
>
> That seems a bit bogus since the data could be the empty string.

If the data is empty, DOMString returns "null" IIUC.

Silvia.

Received on Friday, 20 September 2013 12:49:21 UTC