[Bug 16223] Change .readyState to use string values rather than numeric constants

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16223

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2012-03-13 03:57:26 UTC ---
While I agree with the design principle, I think it's not a big enough win to
be worth the churn here. People complain all the time that we keep changing
things — we should only do it when we have a truly compelling reason (e.g. a
security problem).

In practice, little non-debug code will likely end up using
websocket.readyState anyway. It's easier to use the events. It was mostly added
for consistency with XMLHttpRequest, which also uses numbers — and people don't
generally find it onerous to remember which readyState is which for that API.

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Received on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 03:57:30 UTC