On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > (trimming cc as originally requested) > > Le mercredi 15 février 2012 à 17:05 +0000, Marcos Caceres a écrit : > > > There are strong ties, in the sense that the said API would be exposing > > > a readyState property (similar to XMLHttpRequest, HTMLMedia, etc). > > > > > > > > I'm not sure there is any relationship to the internal state of an > > object and using object.SOME_HARD_TO_REMEMBER_AND_TYPE_THING… > > specially when you can just type "thing". > > > > That's not the point; the point is that if we use strings for a > readyState property in one API, and numeric values in many others, we > would have scripts that have code that looks like: > > if (XHR.readyState == 4) { > > } > if (P2P.readyState == "done") { > > } > > That seems utterly confusing, hard to remember, hard to teach, etc. Not to me (or those working on WebIDL, hence the warning in the spec): "done" makes more sense than "4". Here is a real example of how ridiculously stupid the use of constants can get: var msg = deviceapis.messaging.createMessage(deviceapis.messaging.TYPE_SMS); Um… compared to: var msg = deviceapis.messaging.createMessage("sms"); Nuff said. -- Marcos CaceresReceived on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:28:49 UTC
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