RE: clarification on the "_readonly" attribute of MediaStreamTrack from Shijun Sun on 2014-06-11 (public-media-capture@w3.org from June 2014)

From: Shijun Sun <shijuns@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:36:21 +0000
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
CC: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <cd0f8dd0b2654a2f98b0ec6db70c132a@BLUPR03MB405.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

>From: Martin Thomson
>I had this explained as being quite simply a workaround for the fact that readonly is a reserved word in WebIDL.  Apparently, the underscore is removed.

With a bit digging: the May-29-2013 version of the spec has the underscore in the description.  It was removed in the July-2013 update.  It should be added back given the reason Martin mentioned.

Thanks, Shijun

Received on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 00:36:50 UTC