26062 2014-06-11 17:16:14 +0000 fixing the description of the "_readonly" attribute on MediaStreamTrack 2014-07-01 09:53:03 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebRTC Working Group Media Capture and Streams unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 shijuns public-media-capture harald public-media-capture oldest_to_newest 107670 0 shijuns 2014-06-11 17:16:14 +0000 MediaStreamTrack has an attribute in its interface definition called "_readonly" (including the underscore). However, the description refers to it as simply "readonly". Re the underscore, we had this explained as being a workaround for the fact that readonly is a reserved word in WebIDL. With a bit digging: the May-29-2013 version of the GUM spec has the underscore in the description. It was removed in the July-2013 update. It should be added back to make the spec self-consistent. 107672 1 shijuns 2014-06-11 17:44:10 +0000 An alternative option is to define the attribute as readOnly. The camelCase definition has been used in other W3C specs, e.g. HTMLInputElement, and HTMLTextAreaElement. 108593 2 harald 2014-07-01 09:53:03 +0000 Relevant WebIDL spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/WebIDL/ section 3.1 For all of these constructs, the identifier is the value of the identifier token with any single leading U+005F LOW LINE ("_") character (underscore) removed. Note A leading "_" is used to escape an identifier from looking like a reserved word so that, for example, an interface named “interface” can be defined. The leading "_" is dropped to unescape the identifier. While this is irritating, it's self-consistent. Closing as "no change needed".