- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:01:40 +0100
- To: Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:13, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote:
> Robin revised the specification mostly for IDL markup and made the
> different
> states of readyState constants. However, running:
>
> <script>
> var r = new XMLHttpRequest;
> alert(r.OPEN_STATE)
> </script>
>
> ... in Opera and Firefox returns undefined. I'm removing the
> constants because
> of this. This issue is to make sure everyone is aware of that
> change. (Unless
> someone can point out that Internet Explorer does do constants, but
> given MSDN
> that seems unlikely...)
The constants are there mostly for readability, and some consistency
with the DOM. A better option would be to keep them, but specify that
they need not (or must not) be exposed in the UA.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Friday, 17 March 2006 11:01:46 UTC