[Bug 25353] [DataCue] change DOMString? text to any? value

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25353

--- Comment #12 from Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> ---
(In reply to Aaron Colwell from comment #9)
> (In reply to Glenn Adams from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Aaron Colwell from comment #4)
> > > My problem is that in the general case this isn't "text" and doesn't really
> > > have anything to do with captioning or accessibility. Calling this type of
> > > stuff a text track is not quite accurate.
> > 
> > Some of us don't assume that a text track has anything to do with captioning
> > or accessibility. You seem to have assigned it a more restricted role, which
> > seems unwarranted.
> 
> Ok. Drop that part of the sentence. We aren't only talking about text data
> here. It sounds like arbitrary types of data are intended to be conveyed via
> this mechanism but all the names in the object hierarchy refer to text.

True. And I would have never picked that name, but that horse has left the gate
(perhaps).

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Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 20:12:14 UTC