WebApps-ISSUE-181 (FileError-Name): Use case for FileError and FileException name attribute [File API]

WebApps-ISSUE-181 (FileError-Name): Use case for FileError and FileException name attribute [File API]

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/181

Raised by: Adrian Bateman
On product: File API

FileError [1] and FileException [2] both define a DOMString attribute called name that contains the name of the error/exception constant as a string. Since this is not a useful "human readable" error message, and developers should be encouraged to write code that compares against the code attribute, it's not clear what the purpose of 'name' is. We'd prefer to remove it.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#dfn-nameError
[2] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#dfn-name-exception

Received on Monday, 6 June 2011 20:28:34 UTC