17323 2012-06-05 11:15:44 +0000 Use WebIDL enumerations, not numeric constants 2012-09-10 10:15:56 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified AudioWG Web Audio API unspecified PC All CLOSED INVALID P2 normal TBD 1 philipj ehsan olivier.thereaux public-audio dave.null oldest_to_newest 68632 0 philipj 2012-06-05 11:15:44 +0000 Audio-ISSUE-18 (NumericConstants): Use WebIDL enumerations, not numeric constants [Web Audio API] http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/track/issues/18 Raised by: Philip Jägenstedt On product: Web Audio API 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 68832 1 olivier.thereaux 2012-06-07 15:54:40 +0000 Comments from Chris Rogers, 18 May 2012 Agreed - looking into the details of the exact WebIDL syntax... http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#idl-enums 72723 2 ehsan 2012-08-24 19:33:42 +0000 Web IDL enumerations are only meant to be used for strings. 73532 3 olivier.thereaux 2012-09-10 10:15:56 +0000 WebIDL fixed per Bug 17777.