RE: Comments on Touch Events v1 LCWD

On 1/18/13 7:32 AM, Art Barstow wrote:
> On 1/17/13 6:59 PM, ext Sangwhan Moon wrote:
> > On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:58 AM, Rick Byers wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
> wrote:
> >> On 1/17/13 8:17 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
> >> On 1/15/13 4:26 PM, ext Cathy.Chan@nokia.com wrote:
> >> 3. The description of createTouchList says [[Creates a TouchList
> >> object consisting of zero or more Touch objects.]] But the table
> >> below says the touches attribute is not nullable. Is that a
> >> contradiction?
> >> What would be the expected behavior if we createTouchList() is called
> >> with zero Touch objects?
> >> Or should it be restricted to take one or more Touch objects?
> >>
> >> Matt, Olli, Boris - what does Gecko do here?
> >>
> >> Calling createTouchList with no arguments creates a list with no
objects in
> it and length 0.
> >>
> >> Same behavior in Chrome (i.e. upstream WebKit - iOS could be different
> in theory).
> > Same in Opera.
> 
> Thanks for your prompt replies Boris, Rick and Sangwhan!
> 
> Given this feedback, I propose the description of the variadic method
change
> from:
> 
> [[
> <https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/raw-
> file/v1/touchevents.html#methods-1>
> 
> Creates a TouchList object consisting of zero or more Touch objects.
> ]]
> 
> to:
> 
> [[
> Creates a TouchList object consisting of zero or more Touch objects.
> Calling this method with no arguments creates a TouchList with no objects
in
> it and length 0.
> ]]

In that case, should the touches parameter be marked as Optional in the
table following the description?

> 
> Comments on the proposal are welcome, but please send them as soon as
> possible and include a specific proposal that would satisfy/address your
> proposal. In the absence of any comments, I will include this proposal in
LC#2.
> 
> Cathy - is there a test case(s) for this variadic method?

This can be easily added. I'll see to it.

- Cathy.

> 
> -Thanks, AB
> 
>