ISSUE-18: (Bugzilla 17323) Use WebIDL enumerations, not numeric constants

NumericConstants

(Bugzilla 17323) Use WebIDL enumerations, not numeric constants

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Web Audio API

Raised by:

Philip Jägenstedt

Opened on:

2012-05-15

Description:

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#idl-enums

Use of numeric constants in interface definitions is not good practice for new specs. The WebRTC WG has resolved to move away from this:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2012JanMar/0166.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2012JanMar/0320.html

In HTML, TextTrack.mode was recently changed to enumerations after similar feedback:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#texttrackmode

These are the members with numeric constants in the Web Audio API spec:

AudioBufferSourceNode.playbackState
AudioPannerNode.panningModel
AudioPannerNode.distanceModel
BiquadFilterNode.type
Oscillator.type
Oscillator.playbackState

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1. [web-audio-api] Use WebIDL enumerations, not numeric constants (#235) (from notifications@github.com on 2013-09-11)
2. Re: Summary of issues (from crogers@google.com on 2012-05-22)
3. Summary of issues (from mage@opera.com on 2012-05-22)
4. Audio-ISSUE-18 (NumericConstants): Use WebIDL enumerations, not numeric constants [Web Audio API] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-05-15)

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