- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:28:16 +0000
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-script-coord@w3.org, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
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 Caceres
Received on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:28:47 UTC