Re: [Web MIDI API] send() method should also allow 3 shorts + timestamp

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>wrote:

> Currently, the send() method is defined as:
> void send (sequence<short> data, optional DOMHighResTimeStamp? timestamp);
>
> However, it appears to me that it is extremely common to only want to send
> 3 bytes of data at a time (+ optional timestamp)… Having now been playing
> around with the API for about 10 hours, I actually keep forgetting to put
> things into an array (which leads to annoying errors). Can I recommend that
> the send interface be overloaded:
>
> void send (sequence<short> data, optional DOMHighResTimeStamp? timestamp);
> void send (short byte1, short byte2, short byte3, optional
> DOMHighResTimeStamp? timestamp);
>
> That would make the interface much more natural to work with and avoid
> having to remember to put things into an array all the time.
>
> --
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
>

Heh, we actually had a veeeery looooong discussion about this earlier:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18764

Cheers,
Jussi