- From: Rich Tibbett <richt@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:58:23 +0200
- To: Andreas Gal <gal@mozilla.com>
- CC: public-device-apis@w3.org
Andreas Gal wrote:
> Several classes implement a formatted field that is defined as:
>
> This attribute contains the full physical address including street, locality, region, postalCode, and country as appropriate, and formatted for display.
>
> Is this supposed to be active (e.g. if I change region on an address, it automatically updates), or is this a snapshot?
>
> If we allow diverging formatting, writing these objects back (assuming we do add an edit feature) becomes pretty confusing. If we don't plan on adding edit, why are these fields not readonly?
>
> Andreas
>
> [NoInterfaceObject]
> interface
> ContactAddress
> {
> attribute boolean pref;
> attribute DOMString? type;
> attribute DOMString? formatted;
> attribute DOMString? streetAddress;
> attribute DOMString? locality;
> attribute DOMString? region;
> attribute DOMString? postalCode;
> attribute DOMString? country;
> };
>
>
We discussed making this read-only with optimisations to make it reflect
the values of the other attributes. We made a resolution to drop
formatted in the 18th July teleconf [1].
This has already been updated in the editor's draft:
http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/contacts/
[1] http://www.w3.org/2011/07/19-dap-minutes.html#item06
Received on Thursday, 25 August 2011 08:58:53 UTC