Re: Week 14/15: Staged WHATWG patches for HTML5.1 from Glenn Adams on 2013-04-18 (public-html@w3.org from April 2013)

From: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:37:13 -0600
To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CACQ=j+dtTvPWEbQsxZnKmF69s9Bthc0ZCuho6Et3y+8dECnsxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>wrote:

> * Introduce TextTrackKind and add more IDL support to TextTrack API. (7808)
>
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/9683aedef55f016ff5ebe44fe5c942604774c840
>

What is the motivation for changing text track kind from a DOMString to an
enumerated type? Enumerated types are much harder to evolve/maintain. This
seems like a bad idea.

Received on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:38:01 UTC