- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:53:06 -0700
- To: public-speech-api@w3.org
- Cc: Chris Fleizach <cfleizach@apple.com>
Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2013 23:54:14 UTC
Speech utterance example missing "new" keyword.
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html#examples-synthesis
> speechSynthesis.speak(SpeechSynthesisUtterance('Hello World'));
should be:
> speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('Hello World'));
As it is currently written, it will throw a ~"constructor is not a function" error in WebKit.
The working group might wish to consider if you want the constructor to return a value when called without the new keyword. For example, Date() returns a string value for the current datetime, or a Date object if prefixed with the “new" keyword.
> Date()
"Wed Apr 03 2013 16:40:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)"
> new Date()
Wed Apr 03 2013 16:40:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)
> typeof Date()
string
> typeof new Date()
object
I’d lean toward making SpeechSynthesisUtteranceConstructor constructor, when called as a function, return a SpeechSynthesisUtteranceConstructor instance (effectively making the new keyword optional) but I don’t believe the current spec allows this. I may be wrong.
Thanks,
James Craig
Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2013 23:54:14 UTC