- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:35:06 -0500
- To: Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
- Cc: "whatwg@lists.whatwg.org" <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>, Ashley Gullen <ashley@scirra.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>wrote: > I actually like Ashley Gullen's proposal (canPlayType-inspired) > because it brings consistency to the platform and offers a general > pattern on how to test for the presence of features which can't be > asserted for certain without costly lookups. > This can't be asserted for certain, period, since whether you can create a context can change. It doesn't give consistency. The convention on the platform is feature testing: to find out whether something is available, try it and see if it works. This is closer to hasFeature, which is a pattern now avoided. -- Glenn Maynard
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