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

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Marcos Caceres
<marcosscaceres@gmail.com>wrote:

> This reminds me: why "short" instead of "byte" as the type? I raised that
> in another email as it applies generally.
>

No reason.  :)  Actually, no reason it's not "octet" - it should not be
"byte", because I think the conversion might cause confusion (or problems?
I don't know what happens when "0x7f" is assigned to a signed 8-bit value.)


> Agree. Could get pretty ugly. I think we should make sure examples in the
> spec always use the pattern Jussi mentioned:
>
> var data = [...]
> output.send(data);
>

Just to underscore that the array brackets are there in the spec examples,
you mean?  OK.

-Chris