- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:18:13 +0200
- To: public-script-coord@w3.org
On 10/20/2011 07:26 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> Strings are intrinsically meaningful and therefore have no need for >> constants in APIs for the platform. See XMLHttpRequest.responseType and the >> <canvas> 2D API for examples. We should remove string constants so people >> (e.g. public-web-perf) will not use them and introduce inconsistent APIs. >> > However, there still is an argument for the constant, which is that it > enables feature detection. The other argument is that they make it easier to implement an IDE with code completion. I don't know if this is enough to make up for the fact that they are long and ugly. A third argument is that it is well known that constants are always uppercase so one doesn't need to remember whether it is "2d" or "2D".
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