Re: Use of both numbered constants and strings

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:20:04 +0200, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com>  
wrote:

> Simon, yes we consider it widely used as there are both Chrome Apps  
> (Angry
> Birds, etc.), and iOS/Safari apps  which are shipping.

We usually don't let constraints outside the public Web influence Web  
specs. (For example, the <canvas> element was first implemented as a void  
element in Safari but the HTML spec required the closing tag even though  
there were Dashboard apps that omitted the closing tag.)

> We had a very long discussion about this at the audio face-face meeting
> this year, so this is what we have.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 08:26:33 UTC