20570 2013-01-05 11:50:23 +0000 Remove the indexed deleter. It is the only one in the platform and this type of API is not preferred. 2013-09-12 20:36:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#datatransferitemlist P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk bzbarsky cam chris ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 80930 0 contributor 2013-01-05 11:50:23 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#datatransferitemlist Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#datatransferitemlist Comment: Remove the indexed deleter. It is the only one in the platform and this type of API is not preferred. Posted from: 82.161.179.17 by annevk@annevk.nl User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.5 Safari/537.22 84046 1 ian 2013-03-06 22:36:58 +0000 It is by far not the only one, and personally I think it _is_ preferred. :-) 84074 2 annevk 2013-03-07 11:06:34 +0000 It is the only one. Point me to another IDL block. 86102 3 ian 2013-04-12 23:06:22 +0000 DOMStringMap, DOMElementMap, and Storage, at least, all have deleters. 86104 4 ian 2013-04-12 23:10:59 +0000 (Not to mention Object and Array, of course.) 86124 5 annevk 2013-04-13 08:14:39 +0000 WebIDL distinguishes between "indexed property deleters" and "named property deleters". This is the only example of the former. 86651 6 ian 2013-04-24 00:38:17 +0000 Even if we only look at deleters that take numeric inputs, Array has one. But I don't understand why we would. What's the relevant difference? Just because these are indexed by number rather than string, they shouldn't be deletable? A deleter is a deleter, why care what the type of the argument is, other than for internal WebIDL reasons. 86654 7 cam 2013-04-24 01:07:11 +0000 Arrays can be sparse. Other APIs don't allow sparse indexed properties. I don't think we want to make our APIs have sparse indexed properties, and I also don't think we want to have the properties "shift over" to fill in the gap. 86916 8 ian 2013-04-27 00:00:59 +0000 I guess the shifting over behaviour is unusual. Fair enough. 86917 9 contributor 2013-04-27 00:01:58 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7857. Check-in comment: Change indexed deleter to a method. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7856&to=7857 91899 10 chris 2013-08-12 14:01:30 +0000 (In reply to comment #9) > Checked in as WHATWG revision r7857. > Check-in comment: Change indexed deleter to a method. > http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7856&to=7857 It seems the non-normative green box was not updated. It still mentions: - delete items[index] But does not mention: - remove(index) Link: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html#datatransferitemlist 93314 11 contributor 2013-09-12 20:36:54 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8181. Check-in comment: Update DataTransferItemList domintro to match recent changes to deleter http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8180&to=8181