Re: Bug 24878 - Remove algorithm aliases

My +1 on this point is long known :)

Do we even have aliases defined at this point? For the longest time the
spec was silent on how to map them (since the proposal was in the context
of JWE/JWS)
On Mar 1, 2014 2:54 PM, "Richard Barnes" <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:

> But is there really any use case besides "it's silly and saves the
> developer a few characters"?  It seems like apps are going to define
> aliases anyway, so there's not much point to the browser doing it as well.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> 01 марта 2014 г., в 8:39, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> написал(а):
>>
>> FYI, I just filed Bug 24878, proposing that we remove algorithm aliases.
>>  The current Chromium implementation doesn't do them, and I'm hoping to
>> save a few lines in Firefox :)
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24878
>>
>>
>> Are you talking about DOMString aliases as used in this example?
>>
>> crypto.subtle.digest('sha-1', myArray)
>>
>> WebKit supports this, and it seems silly to require passing "{name:
>> 'sha-1'}" here.
>>
>> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
>>
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